This is Ida, she is little girl, she stands twelve inches tall and is made from tea dyed calico to my own pattern. Her face is hand painted with acrylic and pencil crayon and then embroidered eye brows and eye lashes are stitched. Her hair is made of soft fawn wool tops which is hand stitched and styled. She has a wistful face, with one eye brow slightly raised as if she has just remembered something sweet and funny. Her checkered legs and the heart she holds are made from a lovely fabric by fairtradefabric.co.uk, always well worth a look for plains, stripes and checks. All cotton and all fair trade sourced. I bought the fabric for her dress at the Quilting Show at the NEC from a Japanese lady, all her fabrics were japanese and were quite, quite different in weight, style and weave from regular cotton lawns you see in the UK. I particularly like the rabbits. Her knickers and underskirt were made from my Uncle Jim's recycled walking shirt. It's a really robust fabric, wonderful to work with and brings a handsome texture to her undergarments, I would have liked another metre of the fabric or an extra shirt it was so good to work. But hey ho, you work with what you've got. I hope you like her, she has real character and would make a lovely companion.
This is Ida, she is little girl, she stands twelve inches tall and is made from tea dyed calico to my own pattern. Her face is hand painted with acrylic and pencil crayon and then embroidered eye brows and eye lashes are stitched. Her hair is made of soft fawn wool tops which is hand stitched and styled. She has a wistful face, with one eye brow slightly raised as if she has just remembered something sweet and funny. Her checkered legs and the heart she holds are made from a lovely fabric by fairtradefabric.co.uk, always well worth a look for plains, stripes and checks. All cotton and all fair trade sourced. I bought the fabric for her dress at the Quilting Show at the NEC from a Japanese lady, all her fabrics were japanese and were quite, quite different in weight, style and weave from regular cotton lawns you see in the UK. I particularly like the rabbits. Her knickers and underskirt were made from my Uncle Jim's recycled walking shirt. It's a really robust fabric, wonderful to work with and brings a handsome texture to her undergarments, I would have liked another metre of the fabric or an extra shirt it was so good to work. But hey ho, you work with what you've got. I hope you like her, she has real character and would make a lovely companion.
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