This is Mary or Mary Mary Quite Contrary. She has a pretty Liberty print dress called Iris Muriel from the Postcard from the Highlands. I went for this series because their is a suggestion that the nursery rhyme is about Mary Queen of Scots with the pretty maids being Mary's four Marys who served her.Her apron is decorated with silver bells and silver cockle shells with folk art felt appliqued pretty maids as flowers. With tiny wool felt boots, a woolly hat and a sampler pillow.Her face his hand embroidered with frosted glass beads for her eyes. Her hair is hand styled wool tops in a rich auburn.I am really enjoying using the wool felt to make the body, it gives a lovely warm glow to the dolls and makes them so soft.
This is my first Red Riding Hood (Sold), one of my new Fairy Tale and Fable dolls. Each of these new dolls is a OOAK doll and the individual will not be repeated but I will revisit the character.This little lady is dressed in a pretty Liberty print dress called Hedgerow Blooms from the Heirloom 4 collection with a red wood cape and a heavily embroidered folk art apron. Sporting a woolly hat, stout felt booties and a sampler pillow she is ready for her walk to Grandma's House. Beneath her dress she wears broderie anglais drawers, tiny white sock and her petticoats are Liberty cotton with white mesh tulle.Her face is hand embroidered with frosted glass eyes and hand styled wool tops for hair.I am really enjoying making these little girls, I find them really satisfying and I love the idea of them as one of a kind dolls. I am currently working on new nursery rhyme characters but will visit favourite characters from books, folk tales and comics. All my favourite characters. I think Heidi will be one of the first with a Hansel and Gretel to follow as a pair.I really hope you like them and the idea xx
