SMockerySmArt's Dolls - my cloth doll making blog

Val's doll now has shoes (minus laces), a knitted shawl and a doll stand in the shape of a seat.

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/05/still-plodding-on.html

If she's going to knit, she'll need somewhere to sit! Some of the raw materials for her doll stand, a nice comfy chair.

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/05/sit.html

Got a bit of a "serving wench" thing going on here: A "pinny" made from my old shirt and a peasant style bodice. She will need a nice knitted shawl to keep her warm.

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/04/more-progress-on-vals-knitter.html

My Pal Val is a keen knitter. She wanted to buy my forager's wife, but I couldn't let her go so I promised to make Val a version. Here is the covered and needle felted armature, complete with l...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/04/for-my-pal-val.html

The rat got whiskers! Here he is with my best china teacup for scale. I made the whiskers from those plastic ties that fix clothes labels. Horsehair would have been better, but I don't know ...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/04/rats-progress.html

Having performed major surgery on his front legs and paws I decided to give him a new matching tail too. Here he is with nice new feet, front paws and a tail. Oh my goodness, he's got teeth...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/03/rats-progress.html

A good friend of mine had an on-going problem with an unwelcome rodentiferous visitor last year. Along on the seafront, with all the hotels and eating places, rats are plentiful so an invasion is...

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December 2017. These are this year's christmas decorations for my daughter. The McPolar family, Mum Dad and the kids, out for a boxing day walk! Needle felted polar bears on a wire armature....

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-mcpolar-family.html

June 25 2017 Took part in a Nuno Felting workshop at Studio 11 yesterday and made this scarf. This is a good technique for costuming my needle felted figures. The resulting fabric has a nice dr...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/03/nuno-felting.html

April 29 2017 SMockerySmart supporting the very first FibreFest today in Eastbourne. I have decided to close my Etsy Shop and stop selling the things I make, so this was purely a "Show and Tell...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/03/smockerysmart-goes-out-and-about.html

April 2017 I decided the forager needed a wife! Needle felted on a wire armature with wired cloth hands. She sits knitting, her basket of supplies next to her.

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-foragers-wife.html

I've been neglecting this blog. It's time to bring it up to date. December 2016 My annual contribution to my daughter's Christmas decorations. Before the family moved to Australia, Jen my dau...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2018/03/time-to-update-this-blog.html

It's me, the zombie granny doll-maker! Needle felted on a wire armature. The specs are made of copper wire. I was especially pleased with the eyes. I had planned to use glass ones, but d...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2017/03/made-this-just-for-me.html

A companion to "The Forager", this one was intended to be "The Messenger" but I decided he looked much to smart and clever, so he is going to be "The Solicitor".   Needle felted on a wire ar...

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I blogged about these here. I think I've finished the piece now, but you never know............................if they stay with me for any length to time and I look at them again there's alwa...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2017/01/so-lets-get-up-to-date-with-some-of.html

such a busy blogger. Then one or two things happened. My husband retired and the most important members of my family moved "Down Under" to Victoria, Australia; I opened an Etsy Shop, I got a face...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2016/09/i-used-to-be.html

John Barleycorn is an important character at Lammas and harvest time. The stories attached to John Barleycorn are many and varied but all contain some common elements. John Barleycorn is t...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2016/07/larceny-at-lammas.html

Needle felted on a wire armature with wired cloth hands. He rests on an old tree stump. He carries a nice fresh radish and in his back pack he has a beetroot and a carrot. His spade is made...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2016/05/it-can-be-hard-work-foraging-to-feed.html

A Tale of Beltane. After the picnic lunch, George said “Mabel, I've put your deckchair up over here in the sun, why don't you put your feet up and have a rest, I'll keep the children amused...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-short-story-for-may-day.html

I sold my first Tree Spirit. It's almost Spring, the leaf buds are swelling on the trees, I decided to make another. I had just got to the embroidery and embellishment stage and was feeling quite...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-work-in-progress.html

I've been working on Santas 2016. I know, December is a long way away but I decided it would be a good idea to try to  make one a month throughout the year and avoid that last minute panic! This...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2016/04/2016-santa.html

I forgot to publish this one too! There have been some senior moments lately........... Here's her story: La Befana was an old lady living long ago during the first century in a little house...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2016/03/la-befana-christmas-witch.html

I didn't think it had been quite so long since I wrote in this blog. I forgot to publish a couple of posts! This one came from my imagination. THIS IS WHAT I TOLD TWO LITTLE BOYS THAT VISITED...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2016/03/better-late-than-never-holly-mother.html

getting ready for Eastbourne Christmas Open Houses. I was very lucky to be offered a place in a really nice Art Studio and Gallery in South Street. Of course, as soon as I had accepted a virus in...

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2015/12/ive-been-bit-busy-lately.html

I had it in mind to make another related pair of figures, but this time masked and hooded and conspiring at night. "Meet on the night of the full moon, by the old town wall at the usual place"....

http://smockerydolls.blogspot.com/2015/09/meet-on-night-of-full-moon.html