Hello dear friends,
after long and very hot summer, I have returned with Ella The rainbow Doll.
Las week I had friend over for a visit, who came with her 6 year old daughter Ella. After I showed Ella my crocheted dolls collection she had hard time deciding which one was her favorite. So I offered her a deal.
I told her I would make her the most special off all dolls, doll she dreams of. In order to make her wish come true, I asked I gave her colored pencils and markers and asked her to draw such doll. Told her to take her time, to take some time thinking and when completely sure to draw her dream doll.
After a while Ella came with this drawing
On the left side of the drawing you can see tarantula, while on the right side, giant African millipede is crawling. I keep few of such lovely creatures (many of you will have goosebumps hearing this 🙂 ) as pets, and Ella loved seeing them. She was specially fascinated by giant African millipedes and their size, as well as hissing Madagascar cockroaches who hissed at her every time she came near.
Now I had the drawing and next day had to start making this lovely doll we named Rainbow Princess.
As with starting any other doll, important is to know which shapes to use, where to start, and to prepare your material in advance.
I finished this lovely princess in one day. It was wonderful experience and so much fun to return to childhood and create something so simple and something so extraordinary and beautiful as Rainbow Princess Ella had drawn. Colors she has chosen, the way she put them together. High heel boots in orange color that were must have…. and so many other details that were so much fun to make.
I remember, when I saw the drawing for the first time, my first thought was “oh, nooooo”… for the open mouth with tongue showing. I was so worried and thought of ways making such mouth without many complications while crocheting.
At the end decided to simply draw the mouth using textile paints and apply them as more as drawing than to fill each stitch with color trying to make them as perfect as possible. At the end it worked nice (so I think).
On what I came up and how I crocheted doll after 6 year old Ella’s drawing is here:
thaa-dhaaa….
At the end Ella was thrilled with her doll. Do you know what amazed her the most?
Those criss-crosses you can see in front of her dress, and off course, high heels on doll’s boots 😀
If you have a little child or grand child and you don’t know what doll to crochet for them. Ask them to draw doll they’d like to have, and simply make one.
Same as your child has drawn in simple way, you crochet that simple. Keep an eye on details and colors. Those are important. If you make or fail the shape of head, or body, or make legs little shorter or even longer, child won’t notice that. On another hand, don’t forget to add details as fingers, use exact colors on locations your child drawn them, if doll has eyelashes, add them, if there is one single polka dot on drawn dress, don’t forget to make it on your doll too. Those little things are what children won’t forget and will check your work to see if it matches their drawing. I warmly recommend you try this, making a doll or toy based on your child’s drawing. Happiness when they see their dream doll come to life, is priceless.
Really hope you like little Ella The Rainbow Doll. If you wish to make doll based on your child’s drawing but not sure where to start, feel free to write and I will try to help you.
This is not the only project I’ve done this summer. I was not near PC and internet each day, but whenever I had little bit of time (and when it was not hell hot), I did work a little.
In the following weeks there will be several patterns I’ll share for free and sale.
Some of them are:
Flower Fairies
Liz the Goth doll
One piece dolls work in details( project)…general information will be shared here, but on actual project we will work through FB group.
Will be exciting with lots of news coming up. If you had hot summer, cool down in the following two weeks, gather your yarn, sharpen your hooks and get ready to start the new adventures with AmigurumiBB 😀
Thank you all for your time stopping by and reading this post. Hope you’ve enjoyed Ella the Rainbow Princess.
Till next time,
hugs and love
Vanja
So far have only Papa and Mama. Neither one of them is finished yet but to give you an idea on what I was working at. Hope that some of you will remember Barbapapa and his cartoon adventures on how to fit into men’s world 🙂 More about Barbapapa, Barbamama and their seven children when pattern will be done! They will get one post just about them
The next project that was started last week, as well, was inspired by LalaOopsie dolls. So far have doll’s body done. Hair half done….and still have to think of and work on dress, shoes, pet and little sister, right!?
As you can see, there is still lots of work to do on this one. Wanted to let you see and have idea on how the doll will look like when finished.
Will try to finish one of these two patterns by Sunday, latest Monday evening. Eventually both of the patterns will be posted, but if there are some preferences on witch one to publish first, let me know. 🙂