Another Hoffman Winning Placement!

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I just got word that my entry this year to the Hoffman Challenge, 2012 has placed Honorable Mention!!!

Here's some DIPs

The top two are going to be a devoted pair of Goth Girl friends dressed elaborately and a lot bigger in scale than my usual dolls.  About 24 inches overall, and poseable.

The bottom two photos are the skull and start of a fabric wrap in velvet with sewn in whiskers which will be stiffened.  It is going to be an elaborate rendition of a band, Siege Cats, lead singer, Leecipher, dressed in Samurai armor.  I will give a url as it becomes available.  Right now they are on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/siegecats .  I asked them for permission to do this creation, and they are enthusiastic as I am about it.  ;-D

I finished my entry into the Hoffman Challenge 2012

I am glad I pushed this through even though I had serious reasons why not to even enter this year.
I am very happy I did and am pleased with the results.  This pair is 20 inches high, all fabric construction
with silk interlock over clay faces lightly watercolor/acrylic painted features.  The fabric, is of course, the
usual challenging fabric Hoffman features in this annual contest.   Those roses are 4 - 5 inches across and have to be somehow scaled down to doll size.  I used piping of it in the man's sleeves of his justacorps,

and slivers sewn together on the bias and then ribbon applied across it.  I am rather pleased with his stockings, too.. and their shoes.  When I am less tired and have more light I will take much better photographs, before mailing this pair off to the curator of the show.  Hope you all love them. <3

Gritty Jane put out a call for a Frida Kahlo Challenge... so I made a doll.

May was a horrible month.  So was June.  July wasn't much better.  Here it is 7 months later... Maybe things will start to flow again.  Love & Peace

I forgot to put in a quilt in progress picture

and her finished hair...

Here she is in her Ugly Fabric Challenge clothes...

We were given a yard of "Ugly Fabric" to use in a challenge, so I, of course, made a doll, which I showed all along here so far but could not show her 'done' until now.

She's 15 inches sitting, holding her very own prim baby doll, on her miniature quilt which has 256 nickle sized squares, hand quilted, too.  I truly must be nuts.

Taking shape & her hair being styled

I put her together to check pose and to set her hair after painting her face.