Saturday 12 October 2013

Dressing Peggy

I have finished her dress. I may still make her a cloak, as that is what she is used to. Peggy is her name. After my great aunt, who lived in Australia for a lot of her life. I have vague memories of her trying to teach me to crochet, and I have one of her crochet hooks that I have used a lot since I actually did learn. Also after the fact that she is made of wood pegged together with more wood. Perhaps I should give her old clothes to the doll charity shop.



9 comments:

Mary Jenkins said...

What a lovely hobby! Do you mind me asking about your bright green playdough in a previous post? How do you get that vibrant colour. I am a nursery teacher too and my playdough is always pastel despite an abundance of food colouring. Share your secret please? Thank you

Sarah said...

Hi Mary,
I used that food paste colouring rather than ordinary food colouring. Three out of four batches were fine but I have to say the green one was unusable-no matter how much extra flour I added it stayed incredibly sticky and smeary. This week I just went back to quick mix no cook playdough! A good no cook playdough recipe to get colours uses poster paint.
2 cups flour, 1 of salt, 1 of water with a tablespoon of poster paint and one of liquid soap.

Linda Sue said...

Love the outfit! she looks much happier!

PeregrineBlue said...

what darling dolls and joyful outfits. must look through the rest of your blog. thank you.

Serenata said...

Doesn't she look great and a prefect name for her.

snoopydogknits said...

Hello there! Sorry to have not been around over the last week or so, but we had a visit from the dreaded OFSET inspectors. Although we survived, it leaves everyone totally wiped, as I'm sure you know only too well. Anyway, I have to say that Peggy is looking particularly splendid in her beautiful new dress. Very shabby chic!!!
Ros

Shell said...

Peggy is so adorable. That blue dress with the roses is perfectly sweet.

Shell said...

Peggy is so adorable. That blue dress with the roses is perfectly sweet.

elizabeth said...

What a beautiful doll!