Here's Puddin'

She's quite a homely-looking little thing, but I had such fun making her!

She wears a premmie-sized grow-suit, a nappy, a crochet bonnet and jacket and shoes made from mauve fleece.

Pudding Head!

My husband calls dolls like this one "Pudding Heads"........and you can see why. This baby has a very round stuffed cloth head, which is painted to look a bit three dimensional, although the face is quite flat. So it doesn't really work to view this kind of doll in profile....in fact it looks weird. But they look OK from a front or almost-front view. Pudding Head or not, they are great fun to make! I found some premmie-sized real baby clothes that fit this doll perfectly, but she needs some hand-knits as well.........maybe a cardigan, a beanie and some bootees.

Sweet Autumn Child and a bit of Trompe L'Oeil

Here's the Autumn Child all finished and dressed in warm clothes for the nippy mornings.

And I've been working on a bit of trompe l'oeil (trick the eye) painting an another doll I'm working on. I use trompe l'oeil quite a lot when painting my dolls, even when I'm not painting on a flat surface, because I find that I can enhance the sculpting quite a bit using tints and tones to add more depth. With this new doll, the surface is flat, so the illusion of three dimensionality is achieved just using paint. Not sure if I'm happy with this yet - I may re-paint it.