Art~n~Quilt

This was supposed to be a beginning of a baby sculpt out of polymer clay. But this doll had a mind of her own and has said I've grown up and this is what I want to do LOL. So here she is after being baked and painted and baked. I did make a body too...with the holes to attach limbs, but I forgot to make the head with a wire coming out the bottom and the body to accept it..sigh......so I had to improvise. I made indents to tie the limbs into a soft body, which I made from a nice sock and then I felted a nice wool onto it to make it look like her underclothes.

So after that process I had to decide what to make her clothes out of. As you all know I have been going to some auctions and acquiring some very nice material, laces, vintage hankies and trims and laces, and some different trinkets too. That is what her outfit is made of. Some fine white satin, a vintage hankie shawl, some vintage lace accents.

She is quilting on a crazy quilt heart. In her had she holds her threaded needle that she is quilting cqing in another area of the heart. The middle photo below I was trying to get a closeup of her eyes as I put on real eyelashes on the top, but I painted the bottom lashes. I also gave her manicured fingers and toes, and the end photo here you see her slippers with beaded trim.

She sits on a embroidered stool I made for her out of an old spool, painted and crackled, and glued onto an empty pearl pin holder. Her soft cushion is made out of a round makeup sponge covered in burgandy velvet with hand embroidery on top. It's wrapped with a vintage lace and around the bottome some felting yarn and buttons. As she sits and quilts her cq heart she has her sewing basket. It's one of my auction finds lol. A little wooden type cup and I made her little fat quarter bundles, her tomato pincushion with pins, and two spools of thread that I bought the spools and wrapped the thread on it myself.

I really liked seeing her come to life and incorporating all my arts into one creation. I will also be putting her up for sale.