Who's Biased?

I recently took a class from Christine Shively and there was something a little off about the doll I made in her class. Took a while to figure it out and it actually was another artist friend of mine who told me.

I had placed the head pattern on the bias and, after stuffing, the head ended up too big for the body. I like to place the head on the bias for 2 or more piece heads since the nose and cheeks fill out better but this doll was a flat face. Even the little bit of extra stuffing was too much for this doll.

So - I'll pop her head off and make a pin doll out of it. Next head will be on-grain!

A fun thing to do to learn about bias is to take a leg pattern piece and place it on the cross-grain, the straight-grain, and the bias. Then sew and stuff.

Look at the difference in the legs when you're done. One will be shorter than the other and one will be fatter. Keep this in mind when you are sewing your dolls.