My Best Friend Dolls

Image by crackedmoon via FlickrWhen I was a child, my family moved a great deal, sometimes up to three times a year and so I didn't always get a chance to make friends. Consequently, my dolls became my friends and over the years they were sometimes my only friends. As a child, I started making my own dolls, beginning with paper dolls at first and then went on to making sock monkeys from old socks. We were a family of eight and so finding odd socks to use were never a problem. I didn't progress on to dolls until I was older and my friends and family began having children. I started designing my own patterns at first because I didn't know about buying doll patterns.

I finally bought a couple of commercial doll patterns and made quite a few dolls before moving on to other art and craft projects. It has only been in the last year that I have decided to go back to designing and creating my own dolls and putting them up for sale. It took me a few weeks of experimenting with drawings and drafting patterns to come up with a couple of designs that I like.

I have also bought a few doll making books to help me learn some new techniques and tricks of the trade which I have a lot of fun experimenting plus playing with a few new ideas of my own.

I aim to blog about my progress and post photos of my dolls along with tips and techniques along the way. So far I am enjoying the journey and hope you will enjoy taking the journey along with me. I will be posting photos as soon as I can but at the moment we are having some very bad weather which is preventing me from setting up the photo shoots that I want to take, plus Christmas is only a couple of weeks away which means lots of things to get done, so please forgive my if the photos aren't posted until after Christmas. In the meantime, I will continue posting....