Dolls to Bears

Before I started making bears I was making cloth dolls.  I did that off and on for about 

7-8 years.  The first dolls I made were the primitive kind.  Very old and grungy looking.

That was fun, with button eyes and aged with cinnamon and coffee.  

I stepped away from that for a few years, then one day a friend gave me a bag of 

cotton stuffing. 

 Mmmmmmm, what was I going to do with this.  Okay, I decided to get some

muslin fabric and try a doll.  But this time I wanted to do painted faces and 

make cute big eyed dolls.  This was back in '08 and '09.  The pictures are some 

of the dolls I had made.  

 

 

 

I discovered bears in the summer of '09 and never finished the doll I was

at the time working on.

That would be the little doll pictured below.

Poor little thing.  But her day may be coming soon.

I have been itching lately to do some dolls.  I think I

will finish this doll finally, after over three years.

She is a patient little one.

I've learned a lot while making bears and I hope that if 

I add cloth dolls to my work table they will benefit from all

that I have learned.

 The three little bears  ;)  shown here are all available for 

adoption on Bear Pile.

I know they would love for you to visit them.

And who knows, maybe soon you will also see the 

little doll all done and ready for a new home too.