After Sunday Breakfast with friends and hearing about how Nancy is all about gearing her muse towards
sewing, my urge to design a line of
Softies or Stuffies has begun again. I don't know if 'line' is the best word choice, maybe yearly birth or the sporadic
softie project or the perfect alignment of stars
softie, lol.
Back in 1999 when I started
beading ArtDolls these lovely
stuffies kept coming up when searching for different stitch techniques, across the web for bead embroidery, until I became obsessed
with creating my own style.
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2006 to 2010 starting top left:
- Machine pieced w/glass eye and felt eye structure doll
- Simple poodles machine pieced
- Simple squared elephant made from my oldest daughter light blue corduroy pants and Eeyore inspired tale
- Pincushion w/vintage buttons and embroidery floss
- Pieced, machine stitched raggedy Ann, inspired rag doll
- The last doll machine pieced body, upcycled jeans, pieced, hand sewn felt coat with bead and thread embroidery and ultra suede face that was Prisma pencil sketched. The hair was a collection of fibers resembling Johnny Depp at the time :) :)
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A team effort between machine work, dry felting, embroidery and hand stitching were used not in all work but, most.
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| little birds sewn from a pattern on HERE and this is the designer Michael Fulkerson in Philadelphia |
Here is a handful of softie
fabness that caught my eye in 2006 and are still going strong today with their creativity:
- LoobyLu
- Wee Wonderfuls
- Mimi Kirchner
- Hillary Lang
- Look What I Can Do
- Merwing
- Three Green Apples
- Molly Chicken
- Wee Folk Studio
- Oh Albatros
Yes, yes, yes, I frequented these sights over and over years back and revisit now and again still
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| First machine sewing project March 2007 |
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