Here is my latest creation. Miss Vera has a linen dress with a hat to match it!

 I wanted to try a different kind of prim, and I made a template which allows the doll to sit firmly. I'm quite happy with the result! Looking forward to posting more pictures soon!

Beaded chicken and hens

 This is this years collection of Easter Chicks
I felted them with hot soap water and did a little work with my felting needle. Then I thought it would be pretty with beads embroidered on their combes and on some of the eggs!

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Some late Halloween Greetings!

 My, my, my... It's so stressful with all this trickn'treating business - and in Sweden we're still not quite sure of the date since it coincides with our own 'Alla Helgons dag'
Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful November!

Carl von Linné

   Carl von Linné was a Swedish botanist, phycisian and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomal nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Many of his writings were in Latin.
Linné was born in the countryside  in southern Sweden. Linnaeus received most of his higher education at Uppsala University, where he also gave lectures in botany. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738.
He then returned to Sweden, where he became professor of botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals.  At the time of his death, he was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe.

I wanted to saw a cloth doll depicting the  C v L. He is all handsewn with a velvet jacket and trousers, linen shirt and a silk cravate. The feather pencil was made by a dear friend of mine (http://www.pysselpalatset.blogspot.com/).

Marie Antoinette

Finally she is here, the large Marie Antoinette that I've been working on some time now.  I made her for a dear friend of mine, and she has now left my house to live in her new palace!
She is appr. 22 inches (56 cm) and is all cloth, her hair is made of wool row and wool yarn.
The clothes are hand sewn and removable.
I had a great time while working on her, trying to figure out the clothing and yarn wig!
Now I move  on to my next project, a male from the same century, the Swedish world-famous; Carl von Linné.

May I  proudly present my Marie Antoinette study doll. I'm quite pleased with how she turned out. All her clothes are hand-sewn from vintage fabric and removable.
I have to improve my stuffing skills, especially the head, with next doll. I had a lot of fun creating her!

Marie Antoinette inspired doll

Dear visitors! It's taken me some time to figure out how to make a 1800-th century wig-hairstyle. This is the third one, made from wool rowing, needled-felted in shape of hair rolls and then covered with wool-yarn. Maybe I'll add some jewellery, ribbon or something more crazy like they did in those days.
A friend of mine, has ordered a large Marie-Antoinette doll, standing,  and this is my 'study' doll.
As you doll makers know, it's great fun to find out how to solve things you have in mind for your doll.

A bundle of cloth-dolls...

Welcome to my new blog! Great to see you all!

Some time ago, I got a bit tired of the felting I'd been exploring for the last 10 years. You know the feeling, you want a new challenge, something exciting to take on and really dig in to! 

I decided to write in English simply because most of  the doll blogs that I follow are written in English  (You'll have to excuse language errors!)
When I surfed the net, I found great blogs on American cloth dolls. This caught my interest, I've never seen anything like it! Some 15 years ago I made a couple of Waldorf dolls and some soft animals for my kids when they were small. I was aware of antique porcelin dolls of course (historically mostly imported from Germany), and ragdolls (like the ones in the header). In Sweden poor people also made simple dolls from wood and bark.
But Lo and behold; I never ever heard about Izannah Walker, Maggie Bessie, Colombian dolls, prairie dolls or prims!
I really fell in love with this painted cloth doll style and ordered some books by Miriam Gourley  and Therese Cato and got started. The first face I panted was on a piece of strong, tightly woven sheet that I bought on a flee-market. I prepared the surface with ordinary ceiling color and then sanded and painted with acryl colors and put a varnish on top.
Then I made a pattern myself to a doll intended to sit and now I continue my exploring with sewing and color! I still use old sheets because they are really strong and holds the filling.
At the time being, I'm working on a small Marie Antoinette since a friend of mine wanted a large one, like Amalia who stands by herself. It's great fun to think of ideas on how to embellish the dolls and paint them. I will take some on-line classes too in order to develop my skills. I LOVE MY NEW HOBBY/PASSION!