Finishing the Soft Sculpture Doll

I must say..it really did not take much to decide about my dolls hair. The pattern called for yarn so we went for the wool 2 ply yarn I have on a large cone. It's not that hard to texture yarn, or so I thought. My idea to curl hair is to tightly wrap the yarn around knitting needles, wet the yarn and then allowing it to dry. In theory, the "hair" will remain in a circular the size of the needle. In theory. The one problem with this technique is winding the yarn the opposite way it was coming off the cone. One twist faded out the other twist and when it came to pushing them off the knitting needle, the yarn popped with a straight spring. I can't tell you how many I threw away before I figured it out. Anyway here is a back view of the dolls head, the ash smudge is something picked up and not actually in the hair. I also added a bow in the back of the dress, the weight of the bow gave the garment more of a flare around her behind, giving her the effect she is bottom heavy, which she is...

Here she is bald with the flash on......

And again with hair.

Here she is with out the flash....

and here she again with hair and in the evening light as opposed to the morning light.

And here she is with a pre-flash, her skin can look so different at times. She also seems to have blush more times than others.

Oh, and her name......

What a nice day for Lu Lu.

The sun is so warm.....

I can see you this way.....

and that way.

I can see you under the shade,

and close-up.

But most of the time I like you to see me with my best friend. C&G Design

Words and photos by Dawn,

C&G Design.