Posts by: Aisling
Last year, I began making sock dolls. I was inspired by the book Stray Sock Sewing.
Here’s how I made my sock dolls for the Wild Art Dolls swap in July 2010.
Supplies
You will need one sock, some batting or stuffing, Fray-Check, and your basic sewing supplies. [...]
A sock doll swap is an exchange of dolls made from socks.
In this Wild Art Dolls exchange, the dolls had to be made from socks and three of them had to fit inside a flat-rate Priority Mail envelope.
Three of us participated. Here are some of the dolls:
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click the play button to hear about this dollFor another art doll exchange (a swap), I decided to modify my earlier “dangerous women” design.
I rarely work from a pattern anyway, so any time I decide to repeat a design, it’s not likely to turn out [...]
Many years ago, I taught at Artfest. It was a golden era, and I had a wonderful time.
At one Artfest, organizer Teesha Moore gave us simple cloth dolls. I think her grandmother had assembled them.
I took mine and promptly embellished her. Here’s the result.
The image is very [...]
Dangerous women, reaching for the stars… they were some of my earliest pindolls from one basic concept. I made them in 1998 and 1999.
My concept was this: Work with a simple, triangular design. Create dolls that could be pinned to a curtain, or — for courageous people — worn on a lapel.
These are [...]
“Teal Magic” was the name of the first series of art/assemblage dolls I made after I met other dollmakers online and joined swaps. That was around 1997 or 1998, I think.
That’s one of the dolls, at right.
The body was a simple wooden block, painted with copper-colored paint. I photocopied a corset and hand [...]
