This is how I drew the head

Ok so let me tell you how I drew the head from my Mini Challenge image.

It is the front of the head we need to keep for the challenge because the back portion doesn't exist at the moment. So first I drew a line like so to seperate the front portion of the head

 Then I traced just the front portion onto a plain sheet of paper

 Then I added the back of the head by hand drawing it to the the front of the head and thus making a whole head like so..

 I then divided the head into half...

 and cut the outlined head like so...

 Then I cut the drawing of the head into half.

 I then lay front piece onto a blank piece of paper and shaped the side of the head as shown

 and then traced it onto the blank paper. It should look like this.

 Then I took the back piece of the head and traced the back onto the blank paper, notice I did not trace the side of the head yet.

 I then took the front piece and overlaid it onto the drawing of the back piece like so and then drew the side of the front piece onto the back piece drawing.

 The image should look like this.

After cutting out the pieces here is the head pattern





Overlay them and walla you have a complete head.

At this point you can decide if you want to shape the back of the head a bit more or not. I think I might shape the back a bit more.
Let me know how you all are getting on with it. I am off to sew the head now.

Mini Challenge

I believe that there is nothing that you cannot get inspiration from. Look at this picture. It was just a piece of string that was lying on the floor and as soon as I looked at it I thought to my self I see a face in that string. Do you see it too?  If you do then you are free to down load it and make a doll head out of the image. How is that for a freebie :) I think I am going to try it just to see what comes out of it. Go on you all can give it a go too. The worst comes to worst it will end up in your bone yard or you may surprise yourself by making the most wonderful doll out of it. you are free to enlarge it as much as you like. The only thing I ask is don't try and change the shape of the front of the head as the challenge is about the face as it is. You will need to draw the back of the head but that is ok.

Actually I got an idea. I will make it into a challenge. There will be prizes for the best 3 doll heads. I will not judge it but will ask some wonderful doll makers to choose their choice of head.  Are you all game for it? Do let me know by leaving a comment.

Please send a photo of your finished heads to me. I will then put them up for judging.

PS - You have till the 4 th of May so plenty of time to get it done

Doll I made earlier in the year

Because of all the things going on in my life I couldn't post the picture of this doll which I had made earlier this year. She was a CIFI challenge doll. The theme for this year was under the sea. Her name is Aurelia and she is a jelly fish who rises ethereally from the depths of the sea floating silently by wherever the tide takes her. Her skirt lights up with fibre optic lights. Unfortunately the lights don't show up well in the picture except as bluish tint. I found it hard to depict the ethereal and floaty look of a jelly fish so she just looks like a ballerina lol!

Table Mess

What a mess! I should clear it all but need to just do a bit more. Drawing patterns are so tedious I prefer to make them and embellish them.

Snowing again

 

It started snowing this morning again today and I couldn't resist taking some pictures this one I quickly took from my car. I know I know I shouldn't do things like that but there were no other vehicles on the road and I was crawling

 

This was in our neighbourhood

 

And this lamp I thought looked really pretty glowing through falling snow

The snow is slowly stopping now but you know what will happen, in the night it will freeze and make the roads treacherous tomorrow. Watch out everyone in Scotland and in the north of the country this snow is coming your way now.

He is done at last!

"The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice....."

Well I do hope he looks languid and sleepy enough. I made only 2 sets of hands and was dammed if I was going to make anymore tiny hands lol!  I made him for a challenge but couldn't finish it in time because of my husband's health issues.
I guess now I have to make an Alice to go with it. She will have to be pretty small hmmm....

Hope you all have kept well. I will try and catch up with you all slowly. I have missed visiting your blogs but I shall get there eventually. Thanks you  all for supporting me through the past year and hope you will hang around here even though my posts are a bit sporadic at the moment.

Have a wonderous Christmas

Wishing all of you a wonderous and peaceful Christmas and a Very Happy New Year.
God Bless.

More frost

Doesn't this look lovely?

 

Jack Frost makes his rounds

 

Every year for every Christmas come what may I always make a Christmas doll. This year thought I would make Sherry Goshan's new sew doll for Christmas and this is my rendition of her class doll.

 

I may not be able to get on the computer much as my husband is going into hospital for surgery so if you don't hear from me much you know why. Hope everyone's festive preparations are going well. I did some decorating as I know I won't have much time later.  This year I decided for the first time to have a real Christmas tree as well so decorated two trees. Amazing that I had so many decorations that it was enough for 2 trees infact I could have decorated another tree with my decorations. I am a Christmas decoration addict lol. Every year I like to browse through shops and if I find anything I like and unusual I buy. So all these decorations are collected over the years. Some you can't get anymore. I also keep little bits that fall off or get broken from the decorations and use them on my dolls. This doll has most of its embellishments from bits that fell off other decoration pieces.

Well I will pop back to wish you all but in the mean time take care and enjoy the festive season.

Here are my 2 trees the first one is the artificial one and the second is the real one