Well its been a bit since I have did some blogging.  I have been busy working on some new dolls.  These are from a vintage Raggedy Ann pattern.  The pattern is an old 1970's McCalls pattern.  I have just finished 3 new 14 inch Rag Cloth dolls, and this is one the first ones I finished.

I  used Drill fabric to make the body and I embroidered the face by hand.  Her hair is a great rich red yarn and sewed to her head using quilting thread.  The out fit is all cotton fabrics accept for the shoes which black felt.  This was such a fun pattern and I have so many ideas to use for it.  I did another doll called Plum Berry and I her different and will be talking her and showing a picture of her a little later, you can go to my store www.franklyitskuteproductions.com and look for her under new items.  Each of the 14 inch dolls are going to sell for $28.00 because they have lots of love and care put into them.  I have been quite busy creating other things to for my store, I have been recycling wild looking rocks and turning into something quite cute.  Right too I working another type of cloth doll and she is going to come from another vintage pattern and later on I will the 25 inch Raggedy cloth doll! She will be something to see.  I also have been busy being a mom and a very proud mom, my son's band won first place at a parade! so big hooray goes to all the Astoria Oregon band members at the middle school.

As a very young girl I have always had a thing for those paper dolls!  There just is so much imagination that comes to mind when I think of paper dolls.   So I have been taking a knack at it.  This is my latest creation, a paper doll made from craft foam.  I sat down and drew out the 11 inch pattern and cut the the doll out of craft foam.  Then I painted a little adding some cute facial features with acrylic paints.  I thought yarn might be a little heavy for the paper doll so I used gold colored cotton floss for the hair.   The clothes are for card stock or scrapbook making.  I designed a simple dress and cut the dress adding some cute embelishments to each dress.   I made sure she would be easy for young ones to enjoy her and have lots of fun and dream up great adventures.  This is Dilly Dandy!

I have created other paper dolls, I tried making some cute printables and I have 2 other paper doll sets that are similar in my store.  What's next well I have a wonderful vintage cloth paper doll that I plan on doing and adding to my store in the next few weeks.

Gosh! looks like the weekend is almost here and it looks like rain for the Oregon coast again! Oh well....

 This sweet bear can be found in my store www.franklyitskuteproductions.com  The reason I wanted to talk about her is because of how I created her.   I took warm and natural quilting batting and  stained it with a brown dye!  I used a bit of brown dye and water then added the cut out fabric and let sit for about 30 mintutes.  I felt the coloring came out neat and I liked it a lot.  Once again I baked the fabric at 200 degrees and that's what lightened it up.  Oh yes!  I did not let all the dye dissolve so that created light and dark spots for me.  I let it all dry well before sewing, the eyes are black buttons and I used some doll hair yarn for the head.  The clothes I did not do anything with because I liked the fabric so well I just felt staining would take away from it.  There is also some embroidery work on the bear around the facial features.  I know she came just as sweet as can be.  

This is a very cute cloth doll I created by just cutting it out! Yup cutting no patterns were used when I made this sweet little doll.  Later I created the pattern for this doll.  She is called the butt naked doll for a reason.   I made her from craft velour and did a little butt detail...

In other words a bit of soft sculpting on her bottom, then I added brush to brighten up that bottom.  The Butt naked doll is filled with fiber fill and I made her eyes from felt.  The hair is a bit of bright red yarn.  The dress is very simple, gather by sewing machine and left open in the back for that bottom.  I used hot glue for placing the eyes.   You can find The little Butt naked doll in my store http://www.franklyitskuteproductions.com

I had so much fun just letting the imagination flow.  I love just coming up with and idea and attempting just cutting and sewing and seeing where it might just lead. 

This cotton cloth doll was created from an old vintage pattern that required using fur.  But I thought what if you used muslin and stained it with a walnut stain?  That is just what I did.  I stained the fabric then baked it in my oven at 200 degrees.  Then I made up her dress in cotton flannel and stained it too.  To make her look even more aged I filed her only slightly with fiber fill.  This is to make her head floppy and beat up looking.

Bella is one of my favorite rag cloth dolls I think she is quite cute and in need of lots care.  I had so much fun figuring out how to make this old pattern something different.