Creative Week 18

Another productive Creative week.

I finished Maude

The third elephant in my 'Three Elephants' project.

Martha, Mavis and Maude.

Mavis and Maude are now on their way to NZ to my Mum and Sister.  I can't wait to hear whether my sister likes her and whether my Mum will recognise what it is and like it or not. I am guessing she probably won't anymore, but at the very least the elephant can sit in her room (and hopefully not go awol as is want to happen in dementia units a fair bit)

As mentioned in a previous post I repaired Delphine's hair and made her some shoes.

I continued working on Martha's World and have set up a page for the daily updates.  That can be found here:  100 Days of Martha the Elephant's World.

I made her a pretty coral dress with the lovely 50p bargain wool I got from a local CS.

I also made her a 'Blue Hues' dress from some of the left over yarn from making the dresses for the American Girl and other dolls, previous years.

I made Martha a little cat:

As the weather is cooling down quite a bit I made Martha a little variegated yellow cardigan.

It is a lovely fit and she is very pleased with it.

I've been making tiny underwear, and also wig making for my tiny little dolls, but they can't be shown yet,  I'm also currently working on a chair for Martha, but it is not ready to be photographed yet.

Delphine

I made this little knitted doll back in 2013, you can read a bit about her on one of my original blogs here:  Delphine, the Travelling Doll, not that she has actually travelled anywhere!  Unless you count a puppies mouth!  Yes unfortunately she got chewed, but fortunately it was just her hair that was damaged, which can be replaced, oh and she lost a shoe!

Yesterday I set about replacing her hair.  I thought I'd try a completely different style, but we both decided she didn't like it! 

So out it came this morning and I redid it as close to the original style as  I could.  

We both agreed that it is what we are happy with.  Sometimes change isn't good, especially if it is too much of a change.   Perhaps I will knit another doll to use this hair with, one that has a more hippy/free nature spirit character about her.

I also knitted her new shoes - this time purple glitter shoes.  She likes them very much.  I have no idea what happened to her original clothes, apart from the purple dress which she is still wearing.  I will have to see if I can find the skirt and top.

Delphine is quite happy with her new hair now!