Sunday 5 January 2014

Roxy Long Socks

Roxy Long Socks

It is so hard to get back into blogging when you have been away for so long. Life got a bit busy in that last school/kinder term and I lost my blogging mojo... I am just going to just jump back in and tell you about some of the things I made in the last couple of months (one at a time), and then we will just carry on as if I was here all along, okay? Let's start with Roxy Long Socks.

Roxy Long Socks is a pattern by Lisa Tilse of The Red Thread. Lisa gave me this pattern after I did some pattern testing for her. I've always admired Roxy, and I just knew she would be loads of fun to make. The pattern comes with a printed face panel, and you can buy additional face panels if you want to make more, or there are even instructions to make your own face if you wish. The pattern includes both a spring and winter version of Roxy. I chose to go with the Winter version as I liked the pointy hood.

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I made Roxy for Amélie for Christmas. Apart from the face panel that came with the pattern, she was made entirely from scraps from my stash. I put her together over two nights, so a reasonably quick project. I must admit, that first night I was up until 3am.... Of course, Amélie was quite happy to add Roxy to her ever-growing collection of hand-made dolls. She is quite a tall doll, at around 65cms. Here is a picture of Roxy with some of Amélie's other dolls to give an idea of scale.
The whole gang
If you are not familiar with the other dolls, let me introduce them. On the left, we have Miranda. Miranda is made using the Kinder Doll pattern by Jodie of Ric-Rac. She does have a nice dress, but prefers to get around in her underpants most of the time. Next to Miranda, is Elsie Cabbage, also a Ric-Rac doll, and on the other side of Roxy Long Socks is Little Red, again, a Ric-Rac pattern. Miranda has a couple of brothers and some cousins too.


I am a bit behind in blogging stuff from the SYST13 challenge, I should be caught up by the end of January. For this project, I used maybe two fat quarters in total. SYST13 Running totals: in = 107, out = 255, total = -148

4 comments:

  1. Roxy looks gorgeous Carmel. Sadly my girls are past me making them dolls now...so i guess I just have to make them for myself! Happy new year to you xx

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    1. Nothing wrong with making dolls for yourself. Happy New Year to you too, Miss Muggins :)

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  2. I wonder what it is about the Ric-rac dolls. All of the ones that I have made run around in their underwear too. Miss Red (known as Bemima) spends most of her life in her underwear, another doll I made wears his underwear with pride and the others seem to be more comfortable wearing very little. I can understand in summer but it is year round. Poor Roxy - although she looks lovely it also looks like her clothes are permanent so she will never understand the joy of spending your days in your smalls!!
    Love all your dolls, you are encouraging me to get back to Elsie and Arthur Cabbage too. Thanks so much for sharing.

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    1. The Kinder boys also run around in their underpants all the time too. Elsie spends a little time every now and then in her underwear, but Little Red is a little more demure and remains dressed all the time. I am not sure why. I plan to make another kinder doll soon, I am almost certain she will be a nudy-rudy too.

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