Another Hope doll

If you've followed my blog for a while you know that I call the Annie's I make for cancer patients Hope dolls. Although I make them with love, I sure don't like *having* to make them. This one, in progress, is for a three year old with leukemia.

I'm using a free pattern I got from Bowls-n-Annies. I just fell in love with it when someone first posted about her give-away and I've been looking for an excuse to make one. As usual,. mine looks nothing like the pattern. First off, I was playing with bias and I ended up with a triangular head instead of a round one, lol. Then the pattern called for painting shoes and stripes but I didn't want to do that so I used some striped fabric I had in my stash instead. I really like how the stripes bend over the foot so I think I'm going to leave it like that. Maybe make a pair of shoes from felt. I bet she'll be cute when she gets her little gown and hair.

Oh - and this is the hospital gown that I made for her too - the doll's clothes will be made of matching material - even though the scale is way too big for the doll. This is made from a free pattern from Lazy Girl Designs. I couldn't figure out why the back of the gown was so much longer than the front - when they both had a straight across hem. Anita told me to curve the hem and that worked great! Thanks, Anita!

You can't tell but there is silver glitter embedded in the fabric. Very girly!

Posted by judi at June 22, 2009 11:18 AM