Wabi Sabi Threads

Catching up with some blogs!

Being away from the net this last week I have been unable to read my fav blogs. Of course my first visit was for Ervilha's Blog.
At Ervilha I read about two wonderful projects in wich I'll try to participate: One is about making and donating a doll for Unicef France, the other is for a Portuguese Artist who is making a collaborative project with felt pieces from all over the world. Please follow the links to read about them. Maybe you can also participate.

A Ervilha Cor de Rosa

I spent some time at A Ervilha Cor de Rosa a wonderful weblog by Rosa Pomar, a portuguese dollmaker. The only thing that I don't like about her blog is that it is in Portuguese.. Some words are similar to Spanish words so I try to read it. I keep missing the meaning of the posts. Anyway the blog is wonderful. Is full of pictures of Rosa's Art (Dolls, Illustrations, Knitting...) and links to many pages (mostly in English). So it's well worth the visit.

I have also just draw a dollpattern. I want it to be a doll that once sewn and stuffed would be finished. Although you can always embellish it. I can't work on the pattern this weekend so I don't know if it will work. I hope that I can give it a try next week.

Mimi Kirchner's Blog

Today I spent some time reading Mimi Kirchner's Blog again. She has a wonderful new doll: Autumn. She's wonderful and Mimi said she's 100% happy with this doll. I'll be 100% happy with any of her dolls.

I just love Mimi's dolls. I found her galleries of pictures while looking for Vintage dolls, and thought: These are the dolls that I want to make. They have the charm of old dolls, but they are absolutely contemporanean. I just can picture them in a couple of decades as real classics.

I printed many of those pictures and put them in a binder. I made my very own Mimi Kirchner's Book. I keep going back to my book. I write her an email asking her if she sold patterns. Always scare of making my own. She wrote back telling me that she didn't. I went back to my book and... created my first ever pattern. That doll is not as good as Mimi's, but she inspired me to try it.

Later I found her blog. Well that was more than eye candy. It was her creative process, her trials and errors, her lessons, her thoughts... I highly recomend reading it from the beginning. This is a quote of her blog:

Once I started, everything else dropped away. I love the 3-d, the materials, the high level of craftsmanship that has grown for me. I love turning a flat piece of fabric into something with life! Every figure has it's own set of problems that need to be worked out, so there are constant challenges. Plus, I collect stuff- and everything I've saved over the years can be used with the dolls. It seems to incorporate everything I am interested in, inspired by and curious about.

I hope that after reading this you visit her.