Cage Dolls

After seeing the cage dolls in the latest Soft Dolls and Animals Magazine, we made cage dolls for our September challenge.   What do you think?
Charley made  Santa on a music box.  Diane made a sweet gal on a candle holder.  Aren't they clever!

Susie was busy selling her house and Ronda was finishing her Treasures of the Gypsy entry. 

For October we are doing something "Halloweeny".  Should be lots of fun! 

Pincushions

August Challenge -  Dolls with Arty Attitudes - Pincushions

 

In all shapes and sizes.  There are lots of ideas on the internet for pincushions. 

Charlie's little gal has a big hat to hold pins for her. 

 Diane's pincushion is weighted firmly with a candle holder from the thrift shop.

 Ronda's teapot is kind of rolly-polly and needs a base to keep from rolling away. 

 

 

Our next challenge is a cage doll.  Look in the Fall issue of Art Doll Quarterly to see ideas and the inspiration for this challenge. 

 

 

Turquoise

Our July challenge was to make a doll using turquoise.  
The possibilities were endless!
Here is what we did with the color turquoise......................

Next challenge for August is Pincushion Doll.   Hmmm!

Piper Challenge

Soft Dolls & Animals 2013 "You Did What Challenge" - Piper

 

As a doll club challenge we selected the Piper Challenge as a group challenge.  This is the original issue with the Piper pattern by Arlene Cano.

 

And this ...........................

 

 

.......................is what we did with the Piper pattern.

 

 

We are Published!

One of our monthly challenges was to use a Soft Dolls & Animals Magazine pattern and submit an article with pictures of our creations.  The September issue arrived in the mailbox this afternoon and there we are on page 43.

 Our Vernas!  How exciting! 

We had a lot of fun with Verna.  She was a challenge in that she had so many pieces, but oh the creative opportunity. 

Special thanks to Diane who photographed our dolls, wrote the story and sent them to Soft Dolls & Animals Magazine. 

Dolls with Arty Attitudes
Crossroads Mall, Bellevue, WA
3rd Thursday of the month
Nearly the library

Hope to see you

May Meeting of Dolls with Arty Attitudes

Our meeting for May was on the 4th Thursday of the month due to schedule conflicts and then we still had schedule conflicts! 

Charlie has been busy making dolls.  She has a wedding coming up so she made bride & groom dolls similar to ones she saw in the current Art Doll Quarterly magazine.  They were quite clever.

The groom's tuxedo is a wine wrap that she found on sale.  The bride's gown is simple and lovely.

Our Challenge for May/June is to make the Piper doll from Soft Dolls & Animals magazine.  Charlie and Lisa finished theirs.  In fact Lisa made two!  

Lisa's two dolls.  She did a wonderful job and creatively used fabric for the hair.

 

Here is Charlie with her Piper riding a dragon.  The dragon pattern also came from Soft Dolls & Animals.  Lisa is hidden behind the dragon.

 

When all the Pipers are done (there are three more to be completed)  we will send pictures to Soft Dolls & Animals magazine for their pattern contest.  Our dolls all have a common element but are so different. 

 

June meeting is on the 3rd Thursday - 6/20 - 6:30 p.m. Crossroads Mall. 

Come join us!

Traveling Dolls

Our traveling dolls have returned to their homes.  We traded doll making materials and out of those materials these five different dolls evolved.

Aren't they fun!