Felt Ornaments-Ann & Andy

I have to say....one of my holiday decorations book has a 10'' pattern for a felt Raggedy Ann doll. I had to do some creative piecing on a smaller scale to get the appropriately sized ornament. The hair of the pattern is embroidered and because of that, I too, had to be creative and make my head large to accommodate the glue on yarn. The felt ribbon didn't work tho, plan B. I realized while thinking about a alternative ribbon, duh....the scalp should really be red. This is how I made the correction.

For being somewhat complicated, so far, so good. She came out even after I'd glued the skirt on backwards,and even though I had to remove the neck! The piece was just too small.

On to Andy, goodness what was I in for? I don't have a pattern for Andy and I had played with the scale again.

SOME pieces of the pattern from Ann I could use for Andy but the others would have to be mine. And I would have to be resourceful about "What would Andy be holding?" Also by flipping the pattern, I wanted them facing each other, I had to be very careful again.

Did I mention I was thinking about creating an Elf? I needed something that would make use of the light green felt, my second ornament was going to be a dolly. I think I fit the color, the need and the count to #12 and #13 quite well!

I did it quite nicely too! I need to be slower on applying the hot glue though, I got excited and mistakenly made a "neck" on Ann. She still works, just a little straighter smile.

Everything is embroidered, tiny stitches, but it doesn't take any cuteness away!

The darn wind! Well, you get my meaning. C&G Design.