Dutch Touch 2009 Day 4

Before we start today, you should know if you ever host the Dutch doll duo Marlaine and Ankie that they are VERY demanding. They must shop EVERY SINGLE NIGHT after class. They need shoes and pants and tops and everything imaginable {we don't think they make these things in Europe so it is understandable they must come to America}. Here they show off their polka dot socks.


Now back to work! Today we are attaching the hands, feet and head and getting our costumes on! Yay! It is hard to concentrate on this rather boring work when we are t-h-i-s close to the funnest part - the costumes - but we have to be good. Here are me little shoozies painted with acrylic paints.

After we get the stuffing j-u-s-t right and we get glue all over everything, we bandage up the legs to look like our doll is wearing support hose.

Now I apologize to Colette [my dolly!] for this inappropriate shot, but you have to see how our work is progressing! Ankie is now front and center and we are busy sewing our costumes to the body. And I am a pokey puppy when it comes to hand work. Everyone else seems to be moving along faster, and there I am with like, one leg complete.
So God knows pleats are more flattering than a gathered waist, so I tack those down. And I signed her of course! With a big heart and the date before I cover it all up. Who will ever see it? I don't know but Colette is bound to have an adventurous life as a little French girl, oui???? {She just started looking FRENCH to me for some reason...}

Uncle Fester! Oh c'mon, you know she's beautiful. Dolls are being born all around me. So exciting!


Now I admit, I am a teeny bit jealous of tablemate Sherry's knife-pleated pants *sigh* but I am a big girl and will get over it (or buy Ankie's costume book and do a pair for my next dolly).

This is Sherry's baby again - the gentlest face on this one! And to think her maker is so cranky!
And this is Mable, whom Sarah (who offroads when she is not dollmaking) thinks is too plain to be Mary with a Little Lamb, and so she will get a GOAT! She is lovely!



Tomorrow: finished dolls and our graduation!