Special Order

I have just completed a special order for a customer who wants a doll of a specific size and proportions to correspond with the size and proportions of a certain very popular American play doll designed for girls in the older age group (7 - 10). The customer wants to make the doll herself, but needed help with the head and designing the body. Here is the head blank I created for her and I custom-designed a jointed cloth body to match this head. I have sent the customer the body pattern and instructions along with the head blank.
While I was working on this I had to do a bit of research to find out measurements etc. I'm pretty happy with the design I came up with which is more or less an enlarged version of this:

Here is the sculpted head I made for this special order:

I'm looking forward to some feedback when my customer completes the doll!

Goodbye Amy!

I'm saying goodbye to this doll - "Redivivus" Amy - she's off to live in London, so I made her a new hat and bag for the trip.

Amy is one of two "Redivivus" dolls I made last year to enter a design award using recycled stuff. Amy and her un-named sister were made from sawdust and glue compound amongst other things. I did a fairly hefty submission with lots of research to accompany my entry and I was the lucky recipient of the award! You can see a picture of Amy with her sister if you scroll right down to the bottom of this page - last photo. Different fathers?