Maggie M
sereias piratas fadas princesas e cowboys
"As a child I loved water, and used to imagine what life underwater would be like. I avidly read anything and everything about atlantis and Poseido. Blue is still my favourite colour. Therefore, a blue mermaid!"
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Leesa Perry
Littlemunki
"Here I am- a little Leesa! My favourite colours when I was a wee thing were pink and yellow, hence the attire"
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Teresa Levy
Sewing Stars
"I tried to give the doll mismatching 70's-ish clothing. she is only 5" tall, and making clothing for a tiny doll was really hard! i used wool felt for the doll's body, and tore strips of brown fabric for the hair. "
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Whitney Valentine
Tell Them I Hate Them
"My favorite outfit was pink and purple, I was obsessed with the Wizard of Oz, I had pigtails, and refused to leave the house unless I was wearing a dress. So, basically, very little has changed."
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Maaginen Minä
"Her name is Iines. You might wonder why she's called Iines when she's supposed to be a self-portrait. But you'll just have to keep wondering because I'm not telling. So there."
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Renee Healey
Missush
"his is me at about age four. Big, happy smile (becuase I was pretty darn happy) and messed up hair...because I was a bit of a tomboy, and always had short messed-up hair."
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Sandra Griffith
Shady Lady
"1944 - when I was two years old - Mother took me past a School of Arts hall when children were learning the 'Sailors Hornpipe'. I dashed inside and never stopped dancing!"
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Olivia
Not so Pink Anymore
"R's doll (bekahdoll1): a depiction of a friend as a child hiding out in a trunk with a book and pet cat. The eyes are "looking" up and down to represent her outgoing as well as her private sides."
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Olivia
Not so Pink Anymore
"Seven (seven1): this doll was hard for me to make as the time it represents in my life was a difficult one as a result of my parent's divorce. The lack of a face on my face shows how I often escaped into my own little world, which is shown on the heart/balloon/face. ."
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Susan Kelly
Luminant Studio
"PUSH-ME-PULL-ME GEMINI, CIRCA AGE 8 OR 9 "
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Donielle
Turtle Kisses
"this was a difficult project, but i feel so accomplished now! this was also my very first doll! i only used a pattern for the head. the body is made from a white tee cuz i wore a lot of those as a child. there is no mouth because i had a secret. i also made a little necklace w/ my name cuz i always had little trinkets like that."
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Emily Hill
Dainty Kitty
"I loved to wear nightgowns as a kid! This is my very first doll and my very first attempt at doll clothing. I'm pretty darn proud of it and have already picked up more wool felt to make another!"
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Bertha Crowley
Bertha's Journal
"I broke out the photo album and found several pictures of me taken at different points throughout 1985, all wearing the same dress, so it must have been a dress I really liked...I decided to just made a basic rag-doll and then tried to make a similar dress to the pictures. Embroidered a face, slapped on some yarn hair and that was it..."
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Sarah Neuburger
The Small Object
"Here I am with my chubby cheeks that are pink from all the pinching! I want it to stop...but at least she found my Chuck Taylor High Top Converse."
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Theresa Smythe
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
"I choose to show myself at age ten, perhaps twelve at the most, and quite the craftster at that age! This is a valentine to that girl--the one I am embracing now."
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A.J.
Small Hands
"I was always influenced by illustrations in children's books. That's why I included the books that meant the most to me when I was a kid. My self portrait-holding Little Women illustrated by Louis Jambour--is representative of what an enormous influence that book had on me, how much I loved it."
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Janice Marie
Unfinished Objects
"Vague assimilation of my favourite bear, made out of an old t-shirt. deliberately tatty and a little messed up because that's the accurate representation of my childhood."
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Amanda Etches - Johnson
etc
"She stands about 13 inches high and is a bit lanky, which was completely unintended but turned out to be a happy coincidence because I was bit of a thin child (not lanky, just a bit limby). Most of the rest of it uses some artistic license, except that I distinctly remember disliking skirts and dresses, loving dungarees, and wearing my hair in two pigtails tied very tight with big red baubles."
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Pammymela
"I had to ring mum up and find out clothes that I liked - but the dress which would be considered my favourite and the one I actually drew before making the plushie was made of dark blue tartan - I don't have anything like it. We also thought of cord overalls, but a smock was just so much easier and was something I wore. And yes, I had very pale coloured hair when I was a todler."
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Inge Verbist
DesignFever
"My first attempt looked more like an old wrickly woman with rolls of fat rather than a young child. My husband said the hairstyles makes them look like aliens."
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Aimee Ray
Little Dear
"I was always a little
nature girl, I loved being outside and going barefoot (still do). I
made my doll with a kitty in her pocket and a daisy chain crown."
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Maitreya
Craftlog
"t's impossible to think of myself as a child without also thinking of my sisters, so I had to make us all."
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Adam Levine
"This is Halifax. He's pretty close to what I would have looked like as a child, in doll form"
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Laura
Better Unsaid
"It's a self-portrait of me as a young child. I tried to recreate the bowl-cut hair style I was made to suffer but didn't quite capture it! She does look shy like I was though."
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Camilla Engman
"Even back then we liked to be in the woods. Climbing in trees and chasing squirrels."
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Martha Wasacz
Naive Knitting
"Like the doll, I wore my hair in a bun, and had a short skirt."
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Laura Bozeman
Kookaloo
"I made a doll with long, unruly brown hair in a homemade dress. My mom used to make a lot of my clothes as a child. I really enjoyed making this doll. It was the last thing I made on my old sewing machine...if you could look closely, you could see weird tension and crooked stitches, which is why I got a new machine."
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A.Lee
Stuffed
"The following is a variation on me. The me that spent entire days in trees and on rooftops. The me that was saddened whenever all of my red ruffly panties were in the laundry basket with no washing day in sight. The me that conversed with snails and refused to make mud pies while fully clothed..."
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Kathreen Ricketson
Red Current
"These dolls were made using the doll pattern on martha stewart's website as a basic starting point. Material used: felt for body and some clothing, wool for hair, non allergenic polyester fibre filling and scrap fabrics for clothing. Inspiration for this design came from AKtraditions' gorgeous felt dolls."
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Tsai-fi
"When I was a little girlie girl, I threw a fit if I
couldn't wear my favorite pair of red overalls or if
my little brother bothered me which is why I am
wearing the boxing gloves."
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Cláudia Cirilo
3 Gatos Miaus
"I'm a cat... a beautifull cat. And I have a flower that my prince gives me."
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Jessica
Werner on the Go
"as usual i'm not completely satisfied.
couldn't get all the detail i wanted, but i have reached the point where it feels finished.
have included my doll sally, and my favorite dress, that nanna made for me."
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Michelle Rohrbach
Crochet Sleuth
"The main thing I remember doing as a child was reading. All day long, every day (ah, the luxury!). So there was really nothing more appropriate than making my "portrait" as a book-girl. I hope you can tell that's what it is! The edges of the book are all white (pages) except for the left edge, which is the spine."
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Evy Jacob
Aqua
"When I was 10 or 11 my mom took us to the really big Hallmark store in Manhatten. It was a day to create art there. Tables were filled with supplies, glue, paper, scissors. And I made this collage of balloons floating in a blue sky. So for the Month of Softies, I translated this art created when I was a child into a felt collage pillow."
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Cécile Bonbon
" C'est moi ! Melle Bonbon du printemps par myself. Autoportrait (flatteur évidement... Là, je fais beaucoup moi que mon âge !)"
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Heather Thomas
Craft Journal
"Newspaper - I made this out of felt, kind of the way you would a multi layered stencil , stuffed it, framed it, and hand stitched all the edges down. I call it Newspaper.. whats black, white, and red all over? I just feel like my life is very full of drama right now, much like a newspaper."
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Christina Gordon
Jam Fancy
"I dont really know why but last weeks print version of this doll seemed to remind me of me a bit when I was little, only I had eyes :)"
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Melissa Hicks
Ohsewpretty
"It's a self portrait aged 4 . I was called Missy from about 4 until I was 14 (I am really glad people stopped!). This shows me dressed in my favourite red leather boots, cream ribbed woollen stockings (itchy!) and a smocked floral dress. I wore this sort of outfit for special occasions."
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Clare Chadderton
Dirtyboots
"The doll I made is wearing a very faithful replica of the dress I wore to my Grandad's 60th birthday party. I was two at the time, and the photo of me and my Grandad from that day is one of my all-time favourite photos."
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Lesley Todd
Painter's Blog
"I quite like her shy expression and her wide eyes taking everything in. I stitched and glued her out of felt. It was almost impossible turning her the right way out and I had to cut her head off(!!) so she is a bit of a frankenstein. It doesn't seem to bother her!"
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Nikki
Buttershug
"My girls had fun watching her come together and now insist I make one in each of their likeness. This is supposed to be me on the first day of kindergarten - using an old photo for reference."
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Katy Harris
Shoestring Decorator
"As I started the quilt I wasn't thinking of the theme for this month, but as I got farther along I realized I was choosing fabrics and patterns that evoked strong memories of my own childhood."
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Sam
Fluffyland
"This is "Mini Me" Version Sam, a doll I made for my mom for Christmas but she continually receives new outfits and accessories! Her clothes can be changed with the help of velcro and elastic."
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Eve-Marie Hughes
Coyote Lill's Fiber Arts
"Janey's Garden is named for my mother, and is drawn from a memory of catching ladybugs in Mom's garden when I was very very young. Coffee stained linen (from a project my Grandmother never finished), scrap denim, cheapo acrylic yarn, silk flowers and scrap ribbons, nestled into a terracotta pot."
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Kelly Stevens
Buzzville
"She was, without a doubt, the most difficult crafty thing I have ever attempted. I have definitely learned that my sewing machine, although a very good one, does not like to sew pieces of fabric that are the size of a postage stamp; rather, it thinks these are a snack and would rather eat them!"
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Lorilyn Hurley
The Dream Life
"This month, my softie is a quilt square. That's me wearing a paper and dandelion hat that I made, dreaming about possibilities."
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Karen Tucker
Kraf-o-la
"Here I am at age 6, a tomboy with unruly hair, black eye and a little dress. I never had red hair as a kid but dreamt of it."
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Jess Hutchinson
Jess Hutch
"This is me at 8 years old. I aced my multiplication
tables that year - pretty snazzy. I also made myself sick cartwheeling around the backyard. It was a pretty great year."
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Jessica Borja
"Yes, i was one of those daddy's girls...his little princess, hence the
tiara! I could play up that innocent look easily...hiding any
mischieviousness i may have been into..lol. The devil horns illustrate that bad girl side of me! (and yes, i do have arms..my hands are clasped behind
my back in that angelic pose..lol) ~needle-felted original~ "
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