Wife Doll-Part 2

So, I took this past Sunday to work on the Wife doll, over finishing up some homework. I'd gone to A.C. Moore the day before to find an accurate color of yarn for her hair and pick up some felt sheets for her clothes. I finished crocheting the arms at work on Saturday and attached all of the limbs and threaded all of the hair onto the head on Sunday. The hair threading is not stable, I took a touch-but-don't-yank approach to the hair. To thread it I pulled loops of yarn through diagonal holes in the stitching and cut the loops to produce locks of hair. So, if you pull on a string another will give somewhere else on the head, I suppose that if there ever was a need to re-thread the hair the method I chose would be easy to take out and replace. Although it's not child proof, I don't picture Dom's wife walking about the apartment with her thumb in her mouth and dangling her dolly by the hair beside her. 

Next is to work up on her outfit. I've decided on a baby pink tank top with a black, buttoned-down, puffy sleeve shirt over it with a matching black pencil skirt. I picked up the Depending on how it looks, I may add a colorful belt too. I'm also debating on how much detail I'd like to put into the clothes Buttons? Embroidery? Lace? Beads? I suppose it'll be decided when the bits are all together on her. 

 

Amigurumi - The wife

The other night I received an interesting phone call from my friend Dom at around 9:30. Dom has the habit of calling people while he is driving home from Law school. As much as I may complain or playfully gripe, I do enjoy the consistency of his calls. He opened the conversation requesting a favor, very unlike Dom. He requested that I make him a doll of his wife, matching details as best that I could from Facebook pictures, including her *new* hot pink glasses. The whole point of this doll creation was sinister, which made it all the easier to accomplish. This past Saturday they watched the Coraline matinee, and the movie rightfully creeped his wife out! Buttons for eyes... How could I turn down such an interesting request! 

So, I took to making the doll with Amigurumi crochet techniques. I'm relatively new to amigurumi, I've made some Lion Brand patterns for Christmas presents and some simple trinkets of my own design. So, with some help from CRAFT: Vol. 1 I was able to piece together the torso with attached legs, a technique I find fantastic! So, far only the head and the body are completed. I intend to apply yarn hair, but felt clothing for eases sake. We'll see how my first human doll turns out!