Fennel, A New Vixen Doll

 

Fennel is a little vixen dressed in Floral Eve, a Liberty Lawn. She is a new pattern for spring and she was quite challenging to create. After much experimenting I have decided on her eye detail and darning for her white front.

She has a sweet ear detail and a cute tail poking out of her dress. I love her big black nose. The embroidery detail is quite satisfying. Her body is made from a Basic Grey Moda Grunge and I am still trying to find out which colour she is to buy more!

I hope you like her, she will be a cute addition to my shop and I will be making more, both vixens and little boys xx

Marilla A Bunny in Vintage Liberty Lawn

 

Marilla is a little bobtailed bunny dressed in a warm coral and pink print abounding with dog roses. It is a vintage Liberty Tana Lawn cotton fabric with such lovely rich depth. Maybe because it is a vintage print it seems to glow, the details more intense and the colours warmer.

She stands eleven inches tall with a hand embroidered face and hand stitched ears. She is finished with cotton and lace underskirts, organza ribbon and tiny buttons. Her outfit is completed with leather shoes and a sampler sachet. Her tail is a little pompom of white wool, a proper little bobtail.

This time around, revisiting the pattern, I have chosen to make the ears a little bigger and attatched them in a more straightforward way which seems simpler and more effective. Lots more bunnies to come just in time for spring xx

Orla and Owen, A Sweet Pair of Gentlemice

 

Wanting to make another matching pair, I went ahead and made Orla in the reverse of the fabrics I used to make Owen.
Orla has Owen's waistcoat has her skirt and his knickerbockers as her waistcoat giving her a pretty checked full skirt with tonal underskirts in cotton and lace.
Both have matching sampler sachets and scarves in forest green dupion silk from remnants. Tiny buttons, tiny leather ears and tail with little leather shoes finish their outfits. Each an exercise in the subtle tones of sage green, natural linen and forest green silk. 
I have thoroughly enjoyed all my mice and will return to them later in the year for now it is time to make bunnies with a new pattern for Summer.

Jennet, A Country Gentlewoman

 

Having bought in the yarn dyes to make gentlemen mice and rabbits I decided the fabric was so lovely that I would make a country gentlewoman. Reversing the fabrics so that the 'floral' fabric made a full skirt and the 'tweed' made the waistcoat. Really happy with the result and will definitely make more, a little burgundy girl is on the table.

Finding the linen for the shirts and the silk for the scarves, both French, has been a real labour of love. I just love how the colours blend and flow, really so very happy with these fabrics. The are Japanese Yarn Dyes from a quilt shop in Canada called Kallisti Quilts. That means that the thread was dyed before weaving and that the pattern in woven in so in effect both sides are the same in most cases. So lovely to work with and such a lovely quality.