I've finished the one on the left, and the one on the right I am currently working a skirt for. 150 stitches round for 9 more rows will take foreverrrrrr. Erghhhh. Anyway, I hope to have it done by Sunday.
I started this project randomly one day because I was bored. Nothing else to do; no inclination to watch TV and definitely one of those lazy days where your brain cannot even be bothered to process words in a book. Nope. So I got out my wool box from when I was ten and decided to make something. Courtesy to Beth from By Hook, By Hand for providing such an ambitious project! Did NOT want to knit due to my last horrendous attempt at doll making when I was nine;-
Ew. Still, plaiting the hair when I'm bored out of my skull is a good time-wasting enterprise.
I decided to learn how to crochet. I watched a couple YouTube videos on how to crochet in the round and I basically figured I'd give it a go; it wasn't until I hit the halfway mark of making the doll itself that I realised the stitching was technically inside out. I decided I gave zero craps: I prefer the square stitching over the zig-zaggy ones anyway, and anything is a step up from my knitted doll. (I think I based it off Morgana from the Merlin TV series; might just give it another go.)
I had a limited supply of wool - Browns, blues, skin colours, whites, blacks - so I decided I wanted to depart from the norm and go with white as a hair colour. I searched white haired characters up and a picture of Emilia Clarke in Entertainment Weekly came up. It was so beautiful, and I conveniently had all the colours, so I made a Daenerys Targaryen-themed doll. Might seem stupid seeing as I've never watched the show or read the books, but I certainly made sure to acquaint myself with her character through YouTube. From there I stumbled into Sansa Stark, which I've almost finished making. It's my understanding that a lot of people don't actually like her character, but after watching a majority of her storyline (I think) I'm inclined to disagree with proclamations of her weakness. She's a little girl trapped in a game she was not raised to be part of, and is certainly too young to understand. Anyway, I love Sophie Turner (she read for City of Heavenly Fire audio) and I love her hair, so I thought I'd make another doll. I've almost finished, just got to finish her skirt off, and then the sleeves. I'm happy with the hair colour choices I made as they are both able to reflect some of my other favourite characters - Elsa and Celeana Sardothien, Tauriel and Clary Fray. :-)
After this I'll make one for my Nanna. She loves knitting and crochet, but her fingers have sorta become deformed due to a sort of twisting of the muscle from an associated medical problem (she's very vague about it), and she can't do it anymore. And she wants a doll that has blonde hair and blue eyes like me (she had an old doll restored a couple years back and I helped her pick out a wig - she was dismayed to find that blonde didn't suit the dolls skin colour at all so we went with a honey coloured one). I'll make it in time for her birthday I think.
Yeah, so that's what I'm doing to alleviate the stress of exam week. And boredom. And for fun, cuz it's pretty cool to make something all by yourself.
I'm going to sleep now. Thanks for reading!
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