Morgana Arthur and Merlin

My Morgana doll is almost complete. here are some of the first pictures.

Morgana as a young girl, before she was bad!

Morgana and Arthur

Arthur, Merlin and Morgana

Arthur and Merlin

Royal Wedding Bridesmaid doll

Some more pictures of Freya dressed in her Royal Wedding bridesmaid dress. I studied lots of photos of the wedding of Kate and William to get the best replica dress that I could.

The dress is made from a lovely, heavy weight ivory fabric with a soft sheen. It has a circular skirt arranged in wide box pleats.She has an underskirt which is stiffened to give the skirt a very full appearance.

It has puffed sleeves trimmed with tiny pearl beads. The neckline and cuffs are trimmed with ivory lace.

The back of the dress has pearl bead buttons although it is actually fastened with press studs. A matching ivory ribbon forms the sash.

I thought the skirt looked too short. It was quite difficult to decide on the diameter of the skirt and once cut out there was nothing else to do but add wide lace to give it the extra length. She is wearing ballet pumps made from the same fabric as the dress.

Page Boy doll - Royal Wedding

Freddie, my page boy doll. A lot of work, many hours went into making his outfit.

His jacket is made from a piece of strong red cotton which we had left over from making chair covers. The black sections are made from felt. I sewed the gold braid and gold beads by hand in the evenings while watching TV.

Little page boy shoes, made with black leather trimmed with tiny buckles. It was very difficult to find anywhere that sold small buckles



Cuff detail and glove



Shoulder detail

Royal Wedding - Pageboy and Bridesmaid

I've been working on these two since April.

Freddie and Freya are going to a wedding. They have important roles as pageboy and bridesmaid. Their outfits are based on those worn at the Royal Wedding this April.

Morgana

I've been working on Morgana's dress today. She is looking good!

Here he is - Prince Arthur

 First pictures of my Prince Arthur doll.

 He has a red silk shirt and a leather belt fastened with the buckle from my watch strap.

 He has black leather boots.

 He has black knee breeches which tuck into the top of his boots.

 I plan to make him a red jacket like the one he wore in series 1, with the quilted yoke and gold studs. Maybe he he needs a bit more of a hair cut.

I have made a Morgana doll, now I'm going to have fun making her some gorgeous clothes.

Prince Arthur

Arthur coming soon!

MERLIN

Merlin has had a bit of an upgrade.

His belt now has a buckle.

He has new trousers made from a heavier weight fabric and a darker colour brown, so a better contrast with his jacket.

His boots have had another coat of dye and now have two little straps and buckles.

We are loving series 4!

Farewell Anya

Anya has gone to a new home! My mother's friend, who is in her nineties, took a liking to her so I have given Anya to her. These are her farewell pictures in the conservatory and with her brother Alex, who I still have.

Narcissus and Persephone

Here is Narcissus completed but without his clothes. I have started making his clothes but not nearly finished.
Here he is again with my other character from Greek myths, Persephone.

Persephone's clothes are at a more advanced stage as you can see in these pictures.

More Narcissus

The following photos show different parts of Narcissus after he had been stuffed.

To help him stand the legs each contain a 15cm 

dowel.

The back was left open for stuffing and then handstitched together.

Narcissus - face and feet!

Before stuffing the feet, I glue a piece of foam inside each sole to give a firmer base to stand on.

I used yellow T-shirt fabric to make his face. Here you can see the beginning of the face painting.

This is the back of the face. I have used small pieces of stuffing to shape the nose and cheeks. Then the whole of the face is backed with lightweight iron-on vilene.

Here is the completed face with golden embroidered eyebrows and eyelashes.
And the whole body waiting to be stuffed.