1916 Easter Rising Project Part II

This part is all about the spirit dolls. I had to make 38, and I also wanted to make sure they were all unique and not mass produced. My decision about how to make them fell on crazy patchwork, where basically all kinds of random shaped patches are sewn together to form a multicoloured fabric, in with different colours used for girls and boys. I wanted the faces to remain very pale and so my base for the crazy patchwork was a cream calico. You can see the outline for the head, the colours for this particular one are from the "girl fabric selection".

This is the back of a doll, pinned to the front right sides together. This one is a "boy".

As you can see the doll on the left side is already sewn and trimmed, all the curves got "snipped" to ensure they could be evenly turned inside out. The final size for each doll is about 6" x 4".

Here they all are, stacked neatly and divided by gender. There were a lot more boys killed than girls, the ratio is 29 boys to 9 girls.

Let's get stuffing...

Here they all are, stuffed, closed up and waiting for some personality. The girls are separate in the plastic baggie, until after being fitted with their unique identity.

This post is getting kind of long again, so I will section it off and continue in the next post. See ya there...