Doll-ness

I love, love Hillary Lang's doll patterns over at Wee Wonderfuls, but I have just about exhausted my enthusiasm for the Olive/Archie patterns after making...let's see...four of them. Although, looking back at these pictures, I do see some real improvement in my technique.

Fortunately, there is a new Wee Wonferfuls doll pattern--This one with a roundier head, removable clothes, and yarn hair.This pattern has really clear instructions for making yarn wigs, which has stumped me in the past, and I put them to use in this recent doll make-over. Below is a handmade doll from my childhood, pitfully bald and naked.

And here she is coiffed and dressed: