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Creamy Pasta with Salmon - Main Dishes Garden cress tops this easy pasta dish served with poached salmon in a refreshing, creamy dill sauce.
[shakes you a little by the collar] the divine is in the details. do you understand? how much better would life be if we revered the simple, the material; just being and doing and making, with our own two hands. enlightenment - it’s here. it’s here! in the church of ordinary things. try making a daisy chain at sunrise or showering in the dark, and tell me that’s not holy. religion isn’t on a pulpit, up in the sky, in the next life. it’s now. it’s you, my dear, and all the tiny, mundane things you create and share and break and put back together again.
[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.
How do you make your dolls? Also all your art is amazing!
I've been meaning to make a post like this
My process changes all the time cause the things I make have different details needing different things, but there is sort of a base process I do. I'll show it with an example.
First, a reference picture or concept sketch is helpful. I'm making a doll for @nerdbabelovesyou using this page they drew for refference.
Then make a skeleton. I use floral wire with a bit of hot glue on the major joints, and several stripped pipe cleaner pieces tied for the hands.
I ended up reshaping it some after talking with nerdbabe, they had a lot of input during this project. The basic shape still applies though.
The eyes are beads set in hot glue, so they can swivel around, but won't move on their own or fall out. The head shape is usually crumpled paper or paper clay- light enough to not make the doll fall over, but sturdy enough to hold its shape.
If you want eyelids, here is where you'd do that, but they I'm still figuring those out, so I'm not putting them on this doll.
Now for the fun part, cloth for the skin. I cut several shapes from felt to be arms, legs and a torso.
I start with the torso, stitching the back for the spine. Then I do the arms and legs. I add fluff as I'm going to give it shape.
The thumb to-be goes straight through the fabric. I keep my stitches loose-ish here so the next step, needlefelting along the stitch lines to smooth them out.
Feet (or hooves in this case) are the next step. Horns are done in the same. For shaped things, I make or find a model, cast it in silicon, and cast it in hot glue. Then I color them with paint sharpies. It's kind of it's own process. Here's what I used though, and some process photos.
The shapes come from an unsharpened pencil for the hooves and a wire wrapped pencil tip for the horns. They were hot glued onto the head, and the wire was stabbed into/ hot glued on the foot wire.
This post won't let me have more pictures, so I'll finish in a reblog.
Ok, here's Part 2
After the glue steps, the main parts of the doll are done, and it's time for details. The most important part of this being the skin on the head. It's a word shaped piece of fabric that glues on to the face, wraps around and seams are fixed and smoothed via needlefelting. Past this point, the details apply mostly to this doll, but its techniques I use all the time, and I want to show the doll being completed.
The ears are similar to the arms and legs. With the added step of pink insides (glued the outsides to the pink when it wouldn't stay together with felting and stitching)
Might've forgotten to take a picture before I added color patches, but those are just felted on. Also the iris is painted on. I'm still trying to find the most reliable paint for this. I sometimes use paint sharpies or acrylic paint, but here I've tried nail polish.
Hands time! The secret ingredient is rectangles and glue. I stitch the base of the finger to the hand piece, but the felt would fall apart if I tried felting or stitching, so I bind it up in string and glue. The string comes off, and the finger wire stays hidden.
The last step is hair. It can be glued or felted on. Glue is a bit sturdier, but I felted it in this case.
And that's the completed doll.
It was important to nerdbabe that the doll be able to change clothes, so I did the whole body for it. I'll post fun pictures with clothes and props in a bit.
Clothing I do is sort of based off basic clothing patterns but sized to the doll.
Sometimes steps can be skipped if you know the clothes will never be removed though. For example
How do you make your dolls? Also all your art is amazing!
I've been meaning to make a post like this
My process changes all the time cause the things I make have different details needing different things, but there is sort of a base process I do. I'll show it with an example.
First, a refference picture or concept sketch is helpful. I'm making a doll for @nerdbabelovesyou using this page they drew for refference.
Then make a skeleton. I use floral wire with a bit of hot glue on the major joints, and several stripped pipe cleaner pieces tied for the hands.
I ended up reshaping it some after talking with nerdbabe, they had a lot of input during this project. The basic shape still applies though.
The eyes are beads set in hot glue, so they can swivel around, but won't move on their own or fall out. The head shape is usually crumpled paper or paper clay- light enough to not make the doll fall over, but sturdy enough to hold its shape.
If you want eyelids, here is where you'd do that, but they I'm still figuring those out, so I'm not putting them on this doll.
Now for the fun part, cloth for the skin. I cut several shapes from felt to be arms, legs and a torso.
I start with the torso, stitching the back for the spine. Then I do the arms and legs. I add fluff as I'm going to give it shape.
The thumb to-be goes straight through the fabric. I keep my stitches loose-ish here so the next step, needlefelting along the stitch lines to smooth them out.
Feet (or hooves in this case) are the next step. Horns are done in the same. For shaped things, I make or find a model, cast it in silicon, and cast it in hot glue. Then I color them with paint sharpies. It's kind of it's own process. Here's what I used though, and some process photos.
The shapes come from an unsharpened pencil for the hooves and a wire wrapped pencil tip for the horns. They were hot glued onto the head, and the wire was stabbed into/ hot glued on the foot wire.
This post won't let me have more pictures, so I'll finish in a reblog.
What Rocky has to say is all about the behind-the-scenes footage and what about the characters he has explained.
