New Doll: Ambrozetta, the Amber Faerie (Gemstone Faeries #1)

I am beginning a new series of dolls, the Gemstone Faeries. ^_^ My first gemstone faerie is the Amber Faerie, her name is Ambrozetta. "Ambrozetta" means "immortal" in Greek, and is also used to refer to amber and other similar-looking minerals.

She is 6 inches tall, and is made of 100% organic cotton yarn and stuffing. She has a steel wire armature, so she is posable (gently, of course). All the colors used for her skin, hair, facial features and clothing represent the colors of amber: honey (yellow), white, green and red. She has real pieces of Baltic amber on her dress and also an amber necklace and bracelet.

For her dress I knit a few pieces of lace using a traditional Estonian lace stitch - because a lot of amber is found in the Baltic Region, I thought it was fitting, and it was just such a beautiful pattern! There were 3 variations of it, but I chose the one that had a lace flower at the top.

Gomong Khora Dress

I made a new dress for Ishtar a few days ago. It is made of organic cotton jersey, with bamboo trim that I wove last summer. The design on the trim is a traditional motif from Bhutan called "gomong khora".

Mint Creme

I made Kisa a new dress for summer. Actually, I finished it over a week ago, but I have been a bit lazy about taking pictures, and then the lighting was really bad because we were getting rain/thunderstorms. So I just got around to taking pictures today.

The dress is made of mint green organic cotton jersey, and undyed organic cotton pointelle. I still need to make shoes to go with it, but here it is:

Katya

My birthday present arrived a little early (not that I'm complaining lol) ^_^ Her name is Katya, she is a 35cm porcelain BJD made by JRDolls in Russia. I haven't decided a lot about her background and personality yet, but she is half-Croatian and half-Ukrainian, and she's quite a sexy, sassy girl. 

In the photos she is wearing a dress I made her - it's all organic cotton (poplin and jersey), and was inspired by life beneath the sea. There are "plants" made of lapis lazuli around the hem, with glass bead "air bubbles" floating upward. I still need to make the shoes, she got here so quickly that I didn't get them done yet! But I wanted to take pics of her, so here they are:

Sweetheart

Just wanted to share some pics of a little summer dress I made for Ciara Angelique ^-^

WIP: Snegurochka Costume, Part 3

I finished the dress for Elena's Snegurochka costume the other day. It's made of organic cotton, with the two trims that I wove sewn onto it. If I have enough beads left after making the rest of the costume, I may come back and do some light beadwork on this dress, we'll see. Most of it will be covered by the coat. Anyways, here are some pics ^-^

Next up I will be making the coat. Which will probably take a long time, as it is going to have a lot of beadwork....

Llamas, Frogs and Forget-Me-Nots

What do they all have in common? Well, nothing much, really, except that they all have something to do with doll clothes I've made recently :P Sorry I haven't posted in a while, things have been kind of busy lately. In addition to making the clothes below, I have been working on a new book, taking a tapestry weaving class, knitting a new little dolly, studying Russian and Korean (well, the Russian is just brushing up, since it's not the first time I studied it, but still, it's time-consuming), and I am still working on the Snegurochka costume for Elena (look for an update on that in the next week, hopefully, I'm almost done sewing the dress). 

So the first outfit is the Llama outfit, modeled by Kateri. The llamas are handwoven out of organic colorgrown cotton. I used the same yarn to trim the top and skirt, as well as on the sandals and the handle for the purse. The rest of the outfit is made of organic cotton too :) I picture her going to an outdoor market, or some sort of art show or something in this outfit. Some place outdoors, in the summer, just relaxing and doing a little shopping, or something fun like that ^_^

Here are a few pics of the llama pieces, just off the loom:

The second outfit I call "Forget-Me-Not", just because the color of the fabric looks like certain kinds of forget-me-not flowers. Well, that, and I couldn't think of what else to call it! lol It is modeled by Bu-Yong, and is made of organic cotton with swarovski crystal accents. I made the shoes too. I was going for some kind of ballet flat. I can't say I succeeded entirely, but they are useable for now...

And now for the frogs. I am making Kisa a costume inspired by the Russian fairy tale "The Frog Tsarevna". This trim is based on a charted knitted pattern created by Huldamor on Ravelry. She was nice enough to allow me to weave it :) I will actually be weaving two of her patterns for this costume. I'm using very fine, organic cotton lace-weight yarn. Here are some pics of the trim I have finished so far (and of course, Kisa too!):

I'm really happy with the way this trim turned out! I haven't been able to start the second trim yet - I had to put this project on hold temporarily, because I need to use this loom for the tapestry weaving class that I'm currently taking. But as soon as that is done, I'll weave the other trim, and then get to sewing the costume!

Well, that is all for now. I hope you're all well, and enjoying Spring!

~Debi

P.S. Ringo says "hi"! He is doing really well :) The warmer weather is making him quite sassy.