Mrs. Rose Takes Her Seat

Albeit in her birthday clothes...

I wasn't quite sure how to make a three-quarter doll...so one arm and one leg are completely three-dimensional while the leg and arm closest to the wall are two-dimensional, stitched around a piece of Timtex and appliqued onto the ground fabric.

My friend and mentor, Canby helped yet again when she suggested that I attach all the body parts to a "slip" that I create from the negative space of the chair.

So, I traced the chair onto crinoline...

Cut out the area where the chair would go, and pinned the body parts of Mrs. Rose onto the slip based on my pattern of where the head, arms and legs should go...



I then basted and stitched the body parts onto the crinoline cutting away the excess and leaving only the body parts stitched in place to the crinoline.



The slip allowed me to move the body as a unit in the chair while maintaining the anatomical proportions.  So, I played with moving her forward, back, up and down until I decided on the placement I liked best.

Once that was finished, I was able to applique the pieces down onto the ground fabric with confidence in the placement and position of all those body parts.



Through the applique process, Mrs. Rose lost some of her sculpted facial features as the stuffing was pushed forward by the background cloth so I'll have re-do some of the sculpting.

Not sure what will come next her dress or her hair.  On the one hand, her poor head has got to be cold; on the other, I'm sure her body is too.  And, most people do their hair after they get dressed so maybe I'll do her dress next.

Happy sitting, my friends...