Wolfie and Schapie 4

This is the pattern for the 2e fake fur-layer.

Wolfie head covered with basic layer and improved nose.

Wolfie head covered in velours cloth.

Wolfie and Schapie 3

Another load of Wolfie workphoto's:

Wolfie side

Wolfie top

Wolfie nose spray-painted 

Wolfie and Schapie 2

I guess you will be curious how Wolfie and Schapie turned out; so here are some more photo's':

Schapie felt mouth and improved nose

Wolfie head with snout and ears

Wolfie mouth and snout close up

Wolfie top

Wolfie ear back

Wolfie eyes

Wolfie and Schapie

Last summer I was asked to help with The Summer-Bibelclub. I wanted to bring some humor in the program and made inspired by The Muppetshow some hand-puppets: Wolfie and Schapie.

I had lots of foam-plastic left over from an old fitting-doll project so I could start right away; I had only a few weeks to write the dialogue and make 2 hand-puppets. Writing the dialogue was fun as was making extra accessories like a tiny rug sack and I-Phone and a dead canary etc.
After 2 weeks my puppets and extras were finished and the children were very interested :)

Here are some photo's from the work progress; since this are my first hand-puppets ever I had to find out how to create the snouts; I cut them out from thicker pieces of foam plastic.

Pattern basis-head and patterns of arms

Snout and ears and eyes added to basic head

Eyes made from plastic eggs and felt.

Making the cloth mould for the cover of the head, I have removed the temporarily pinned on ears

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I use stretch cloth.

You only have to make a half mould; mirror it on pattern-paper and you have a head-cover-pattern :)

Sideview

Backview

Topview

Mould on carton

Schapie head first covered in cloth then with fake sheep-fur

 

Paperdoll

In 2006 I got an assignment to make illustrations for a paperdollbook 'Tempoe Doeloe' about Indonesian culture before the country became independent: 
It was presented at the Pasar Malam.I worked for a couple of months on it and the client showed me the batikdesign cloths that were used for each culture in Indonesia.
 I started studying other paperdollbooks for inspiration and discovered them on the internet. As I enjoyed Beauty and the Beast very much I made some papercrafts for the mailinglist I was a member of at the time and made a moveble paperdoll of Catherine Chandler and some other papercrafts.

I realy enjoyed making my own paperdolls of characters I like so I decided to make an Ugly Betty doll.
The fun with this character was all those weird colourful outfits.
 I loved that butterflycostume! 
I draw the figures with pencil, ink them on my lightbox, copy them on thicker A4 paper and then the most fun part starts: colouring with ecoline :) I have used Photoshop occasionaly to colour an illustration but I prefer my brushes and ecoline. Also I am much faster this way than on a computer; I still have to learn more about those programs.
 

Betty Suarez paperdoll.


I am planning to post more about this later...

Pincushionfun

In the beginning this year I got the spring fever and wanted to make something nice for Easter to give to my my sister in law(it was for her birthday) and when I finished her gift I was so inspired I also made one for my mother in law and my father in law(although his was to put chocolate-eggs in).
I recently had bought  all kinds colours felt and took some of my small glass jars and crochet teacups to make pincushions.

Since my mother in law is a bee-keeper I made a little bee-pin; I found a great tutorial on making tiny bees here: the blog http://sabiiwabii.blogspot.nl/2010/12/diy-blossom-and-bumblebee-pin-cushion.html 

Frog on water lily.

Bee on flower.

Train on track.

After the bee I made a little frog from pipe-cleaners for on the water lily and have since made more insects.

I have been cleaning out my closet and given clothes away to friends but there were some items I still wanted to do something with. Last year I got a huge amount of textile-materials like embroidery-tread samples, wool, hand painted cloth, weaved cloth, tools, textile-books etc; I had been dreaming of having lots embroidery-colours so I felt really blessed even though it took me 2 months to sort everything out.
So now I am in  the process of pimping up some jackets and T-shirts. I made a skirt from a piece of velvet I bought at the clothes-market some years ago and needed something to go along with it so I found an old pink t-shirt back and decided after seeing a tutorial on doing roses with thin silk-band online ( I couldn't find the website where it came from to give credit to the person who posted it but it is on my Pinterestboard: embroidery techniques)
my Pinterestboard
I have used scraps from the skirt to finish the neckline and will also use that on the sleeves.
I have embroidered it in freestyle. So here is how it looks until now; I will post more photo's when it is finished.