Chrismas doll finished

Well I finally finished my Christmas Doll Raffle. At least I hope it will be a raffle. I'll find out tomorrow.

I won...well I tied to win!

I'm so excited! My art quilt (Halloween Night) won first prize in the on-line craft contest. YIKES. This was my first art quilt and it won. Well I actually tied with someone else but that's ok by me. A win is a win. LOL

Here is a picture to remind you what it looked like. Hopefully this is the beginning of a new year for me.

Christmas Doll Raffle?

I've been working diligently on a Christmas doll that I might put in for a raffle for the church fair. It depends how it comes out. Since it will be a representation of my work it really has to be good so I'll wait and see what happens. I don't have much time left so I'm just cranking it out. Here are some pics of the process so far.

She's made from a large brass candlestick. Her head is sculpted paperclay over a styrophome ball stuffed into the top of the candlestick and her body is wired around the candlestick with cloth over it. Her dress is made from old lace and her cape is made from an old velvet dress I found at the thrift shop. it has this large beading in the back but I didn't take a pic of that yet.

She will have a matching white muff to match her white fur hat. Still very much a work in progress.

Brand new Quilt

Here is the beginning of my new idea for a quilt. I got this great material of a brick wall. I decided to try and make a series of art quilts of vignettes in front of a brick wall.

The first one which I just started is of a graffiti wall with the graffiti artist at work. It's just in the beginning stages. I've painted the "graffiti" with paint sticks and I made the graffiti artist using various materials and stitching. it's still very much in the beginning stages but I thought I'd share it anyway.

Finished Doll

Well here is the finished doll with wings.

In progress

Here is a doll I'm working on now. She is for a WIP challenge which stands for "work in progress" The idea was to take an unfinished doll that's been hanging around and finish it. She was definitely unfinished and was for quite a while. I've been working on her and I thought she was finished and ready to send her in when I thought about it in bed last night that she needed wings, so I guess she's not really finished, but I'll put her here anyway for now.

Here are both the original unfinished and now the next unfinished. lol

Halloween Art Quilt

Here is an art quilt I made for a halloween contest on line. .It's made from all materials and it's an original pattern that I drew and then followed. It has stitches all over it that I don't think you can see in the pictures.
Again, the pics are horrible but I will be doing my good pics later to submit this to the contest. It's the first real art quilt that I've ever tried and I loved making it and plan to do many more.