 Hey guys, how are you? All right, so something else we're gonna do this month For February to wrap up February is another celebration of love type of thing and We're gonna make a little art doll To commemorate maybe somebody special in your life who's no longer with us in my case this whole week. I've been commemorating my grandmother and I would normally say I'm not exactly sure why but I actually do know why Her funeral was on February 14th. Not this year. It was a few years ago So we're going to take I want to really take these off of here so I can use it better so we're gonna take some more of her house coat and we're gonna make a little art doll and I have another piece of the sleeve here and this is an art doll pattern. It's a pattern of mine It is already available over in my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression If you are not a member there I also am going to put it over in the my year 2017 Facebook group So if you're not into one in one of those groups and You want to be the links are in the description below. I will try to remember to put a link To a drop box that pens not gonna work to a drop box that you guys can access to download the Pattern in the description below if I forget somebody like write something and remind me Because it would be very like me to just forget So this is one of the doll bodies. There's three shapes of doll bodies and I'm going to just trace around it roughly with a pen and then cut it out. I should be using fabric scissors for this but You know I'm not So when I cut while I'm cutting it out, I'm gonna try to either cut right on the black line or cut the black line off At least that's my intention anyway. I don't know. We'll see how if I accomplish it You could do this with you know an old vintage piece of fabric a piece of hand I make these and sell them in my shop out of handmade Fabric hand painted like like you see is happening to my drop cloth here You can make them out of felt whatever you have laying around So now we have a and I've cut it wrong sides together. So I have Two pieces of fabric now. I want to Make a face And I think I'm going to use this piece of canvas for the face I'm going to whack off. This is just a scrap of canvas that I have I'm going to whack off a square That's about the right size and then I'm going to cut an oval Out of it So now before we do anything else, let's zoom in You're going to need to see this so we're going to make our face now You could draw your face. Um, you could paint the face I am actually going to embroider the face and I know what you're all like going. What? Oh, seriously, you guys can do this I'm going to grab one of these embroidery needles Of course the one I want is in the middle because I got three and I'll need three I do have this little Altoids tin that I should just stick these needles in I am going to um Use black and red thread. This is kind of an orangey red, but that's okay So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take my pen And very lightly or pencil and I'm going to sketch out a simple closed eye Face now you could do this in sharpie and then leave it at that little nose And then a heart for the mouth Just like that. Okay Then we're going to take some of our black thread first And I usually use I need my glasses You could also probably stitch this on the sewing machine. Um, but um, it's pretty teeny. It'd be easier to do it by hand I'm going to separate my floss. So I just have two strands Um, if you're not unfamiliar with embroidery floss, it's a six Stranded Basically a piece of string embroidery floss is really great to like do handbound books with and stuff like that Um, and of course the traditional embroidery Okay So we're going to just do a running stitch So I'm going to start at one end of the eyelashes There the eye I should tie not back here That would be handy. Okay, let's start at one end And then go over just a little bit I don't know like an eighth of an inch Then go and bring the needle back up about an eighth of an inch from where you Did the first stitch and go up And then go back into that hole where the first stitch is Just like that Okay, I'm going to do it again It doesn't matter what the back looks like because We're going to sew this to the other fabric So if your back is messy, it doesn't matter Um, I am not the neatest embroiderer in the world My grandmother was always trying to tell me to You know that the back should be as neat as the front and she's not wrong I just was never able to accomplish that Okay, so then I'm going to come back over here and I'm just going to have my thread travel on the back Um, but it's not going to show on the front and I'm going to come up At the bottom of this first little eyelash maybe Or at least close to it. There we go And then I'm going to go down At the base of those stitches that I just put in to make one of the eyelashes And I'm going to do that two more times And I'll show you what I mean about the back being messy because it's I can feel it. I don't think it's too. I don't think it's very on my backs. Generally, you're not neat And if you use a thin pen or pencil Um, then the embroidery floss should cover up all of it. So then when you're done, turn it over And tie a knot I'm going to do it again And then trim So the back is kind of messy But the front looks good. So let's do the other eye Might have just enough floss to do the other eye Make sure i'm on camera I would recommend stitching it out. You also could use a water soluble pen In your fabric department And probably your embroidery department of your store They probably have a fabric marking pen That's water soluble and you can get one of those and use that to do your markings And then after you do your embroidery, you just get it wet and the pen disappears I do have one of those around here somewhere I didn't feel like searching for it to be real honest. I can do our our eyelashes She's already looking cute. Okay Tie knot I don't think we have enough on here to do the nose So we'll just grab another piece because it's not like I have any shortage of embroidery floss around here I used to do a lot more embroidery than I do now. I should probably purge some floss So I'm going to use blacks for the nose also And then we'll use this red color for the lips And we're going to do the nose and a Chain running stitch also Just the trick the old trick is to Um not have your stitches be too big Have them, you know be kind of little The lips I do generally a little bit differently and I'll show you what I mean by that I'm okay with the edges of this Fray If you're not you might want to stitch it down or use a piece of flesh colored felt For this instead of like a canvas So now we're going to take a little piece of our red And again, we're going to separate it and pull out just two. Where are you? There you are Just two It's multi stranded here, so we're going to just pull out two Oops two threads Hardest part some days is threading the needle. I swear. Okay. We're going to tie a little knot in the end Okay, we're going to come up at the base of the little heart shape that we have for the mouth And I'm not doing a heart shaped mouth just because it's um February. We're doing this for the month of February I always do almost always do a heart shaped mouth Um, so I'm going to come up at the base And then I'm going to Make a loop And go down at the base But when I pull I mean to hold this loop down and I'm only going to pull it Until it's about the same size as that pen mark that I made Then I'm going to come up at the top of the loop Or the top of the pen mark. There we go Catch the loop Try to have it not be too tight And then you want to go down in the loop in the same place And arrange that loop So it looks like that. So you have a little chain stitch And then we're going to do it again We're going to come back up in the same place in the base where the other stitches are coming out of Come up in the top of this other side of this heart shape for the mouth Grab that loop back down in the same place Pull it snug, but not too tight That was a little bit too tight. There we go And then just tie it in a knot Dying it in a knot is the hardest part Okay So once you have that done then your face should look something like this You can adjust your little mouth loops So they actually form a kind of a heart shape If they get all catty wampus in the assembly, you know embroidery process You can of course do your running stitch all around the mouth if you would prefer Um, but I kind of like the way that the heart little heart shape looks on the mouth All right, so now I have this piece of lace From something else that we did this month that I think I want to put behind the face We're going to take one part of the body knot both Set the other one aside And yeah, I think I want to put this lace Like across the head With the face in the middle I have this, um, trim that I painted That I think I want to put around the edge of the face So we're gonna, um Let's put some of this stuff aside That way All right, so we've got the little sewing machine out So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to stitch this across here And the stitching doesn't have to be perfect and you could probably glue it if you would prefer It might start now because I sawed something really thick on it the other day And then I want to take our little face and see if we can Sew this around around it. Let's see If we can On this machine We'll see if we can Let's do a little zigzag because I think that would be easier See it's not wanting to Let's see Let me see if I can get this on here. I'll be back. Okay So I sewed the face down without the trim on it because I think we're going to have to glue the trim on And I don't think it's gonna it's I could break out my other machine and get out a fancy presser foot to sew it on Um, but most of you out there are not going to be able to Do that and have Um, I know some of you don't have those kind of sewing skills. So we're not going to do that You could hand stitch it on I just trimmed off the excess lace And all of this here is garbage So we're going to trim off this little raggedy old piece where I was trying to sew it on and get that out for there I do think I want this on here though. Um before we do anything else. I think I want to put a little heart on here Um, so I could do it with felt. I could do it with Fabric ribbon Let's see Do we want it to be pink? Do we want it to be paper? It could be paper. It could be a paper heart Why couldn't it be paper? This is a little mixed media doll. I have this pretty handmade paper red paper Um This is just a scrap hasn't been thrown away yet. Let's use this So let's cut out a shape a heart shape I want to cut a white one too. I think I want to layer them Or do I want to use fabric? Oh choices people choices It's too many choices I have more of the canvas. I could use a little piece of canvas The canvas might be fun Let's use the same piece of canvas that we used before so let's My camera battery died. I don't know where I left off But I took a little scrap of red fabric cut it into a heart shape and sewed it to a red fabric red paper sewed it to a another scrap of the canvas And we're going to sew that to the front of our doll now We're still just working with a single layer of fabric. Okay A little trouble with the bobbin tangling. All right So before you do anything else and you want to make sure that you have all the Decorations that you want to machine sew to the front of your doll on here before you do anything else Um If you're not the kind of person that likes the raw frayed edge look then you're going to want to like hem things Um, honestly, this is a little art doll and I wouldn't be bothered, but that's totally up to you. It's your doll So now I'm going to layer My two pieces one on top of the other So that the edges all match I want to get a little piece of scrap ribbon or lace what use what you have um I might want to use a little piece of I have lots of choices, but I have this like seam. What is it? Seam binding and I think I want to just use a little piece of this I'm going to need one piece for the top and I'm going to need A longer piece for the bottom So the piece for the top folded in half Put the cut ends inside your doll And leave the loop out so that you have a loop to hang it by whether you're hanging it on a bulletin board or something else Um, we're going to need some pins I'm going to pin that in place For the bottom we're going to put the cut Ends out and put the folded piece in and pin that in place We're going to sew and we're going to leave a little bit of an opening on one side And we're going to sew around the rest of the doll. So I'm going to do that and I'll be right back So I like the way the messy grungy two rows of stitches looks if that's not for you again You might want to do this a different way. I'm going to take a little bit of stuffing Polyester batting and I left it opening. That's about an inch and a half two inches big right here It's about an inch and a half. I don't think that's two inches and I'm going to just gently Put some of the stuffing inside of my doll. I'm going to push it up to the head first I don't want it to be too Um, full and puffy. It doesn't need to be the body and the neck. I've got a piece of thread in there. That's okay Now on the art dolls I sell I put you know protection stones and things inside the doll I'm not going to here, but you could Or you could put maybe you've got If it's a remembrance piece, maybe you've got a funeral card You want to fold it up and stick it inside the doll or something like that You could totally do that. So now I'm going to just quickly stitch the hole closed I'm going to stop at the other end and I'm going to actually lift up the presser foot turn the doll around and do another row of stitching So that the hole Looks the same as the rest of the edge of the doll. So there's two rows of stitching all the way around So that's how our doll looks so far. Isn't she cute? I like her All right, I'm gonna move this up out of the way Put the pins away So this is how she looks so far and I still am thinking I want to put this around her head Maybe I don't know now now that I Now that I have her together, maybe I don't want to put that on maybe I want to put it like here Maybe That would work Let's get out the little other bits and pieces I want to put on here So this is exactly how I got it from my grandmother how it was found among her things in this Um, I'm a reti, uh chocolate box And my grandmother was very philanthropic and very catholic And she gave to catholic charities um on a regular basis and every time she did they gave her Catholic medallions and this is one of two boxes that I have like this Um full like you can see it's very full So we're going to take a few of these fun things in here and there's some key chains and Other things in here and what I want to do is I want to put some of them on the bottom of the doll And dangle them from the bottom of the doll Um, she also gave to the olympics and other charities There's a lot of stuff in here. Oh, look at that a dream catcher That might need to go at the bottom of the doll And there's an angel So let me dig through here and let me um Oh, there's a pristine anthony Let me um find some things to hang from the bottom of our dolls and charm them And medallions and things for my grandmother's stash of things And I will be right back. Okay I'm going to zoom in a bit Um, so I got a couple of like charm dangles made From the things I found in my grandmother's box. I'm going to hang them from the bottom of Um the doll just real easily by just Honestly stringing them on the ribbon and then tying it in a knot Nothing nothing complicated You could color this seam binding with inks or paint Um, you can get this seam binding at your fabric store I believe but you I I ordered a big spool of it from amazon kind of a long time ago And I love that Um, I did find some interesting things in here and I have another box of these which I haven't looked at yet But um evidently my grandmother gave on a fairly regular basis to habitat for humanity These ones with little houses in them are from habitat for humanity. Um, and they say bless this house on one side Um, and then this one which is the exact same size and feels like it's made out of the same metal It's from the Christopher Reeve foundation Um paralysis foundation. So that's interesting Um, I found this little thing which says record and detach Oh god, I don't know what that is I found this little medallion which does it may be an expensive metal But it feels like some kind of different kind of an expensive metal And it says bombino on the back which is Italian for baby. And there's some other words. I can't quite make make out Maybe protecta. I don't know. I can't Quite make it out. So she has that one And there's the the back The most interesting one. Does anybody know what this is? Was in the bottom of her box. I don't know what that is And it looks like this on the back It appears to be copper. So I don't know what that is Um, so that's interesting doesn't the bottom of grandma's box. I don't know what they're in there They're these things. I know what these are. These are for Um saying the rosary. Um, if you don't, you know, this is a different way of saying the rosary rather than carrying around a full Um, a set of rosary beads. There's a couple of these I have quite a few of these from her, um, stash of stuff So here's our doll. I'm still trying to figure out. I'm still thinking I want to put this on here I'm just trying to think of how I want it on here Um Or should it even be on here? I'm kind of thinking maybe it shouldn't even be on there now because I kind of like the way She's looking just like this So let me clean up and put things away and I'll think about it and I'll be right back Okay, I decided to give her wings I know right You're like wing is wait a minute It just seems fitting so I'm going to take some more of this red paper And I cut some more heart shapes out. I'm just using again the elmer's extreme glue Aileen's tacky glue would work. I'm going to just eyeball it. Yeah, that looks about right I'm going to need the pokey tool again And this is what we're going to do We're going to poke two holes in the card This is a piece of cardboard box that I ripped and distressed And I'm going to just poke two holes Okay, I'm going to use some of this um baker's twine Which is now knotted because I'm terrible with baker's twine I'm going to lack off a piece I'm going to use this bookbinding needle Because it's nice and long. Why am I threading this with my out my glasses on? I have no idea That's better. I can actually see what I'm doing Doesn't help me get it done, but I can see that I'm missing. There we go Yay, all right So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in one side and I'm going to Go into the back of the doll's neck and out I don't know about a half an inch down The ring's around Go out the other hole This this should the reason I'm doing this and not gluing is because I think this will hold it better You could put some glue back there too if you wanted and then just tie it in a knot Yep, that's cute Cute cute Oh, I love her. All right. I want to see if we can distress the edges of this by just yep Make these a little actually I'm going to make this one shorter. I want them to be different lengths Again, you could you could if you don't want, you know If you have a white seam binding and you want it to be like red or blue you could You use some ink or stains or something and You could color it that way Oh, she's super cute All right, let me zoom out She is super cute I'm going to enjoy having her in my office a remembrance to my grandmother So think about this as we wrap up this month of love this month of february Taking some bits and pieces that you're hoarding in your art room or your house or your life And creating instead of storing them away in a box that nobody ever looks in Take them out and create something that can be out every day that you can look at touch and feel And remember that person by um like this little art doll super cute. All right, that's it for today Don't forget to like share and subscribe as if you can and if you're not a Um part of my year 2017, which is what I created this doll for um, then Think about joining it's a facebook group. Um, and um, maybe even think about supporting my youtube channel here by shopping in my Etsy shop the links for all of those are in the description below um, but this is a fun way to um You know remember somebody you love and whether you do something like this as part of your journal or in addition To your journal for the year This is a really fun thing to do and a great way to remember them and use up those bits and pieces Uh, the most important thing of course is to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And i'll see you later. Okay. Bye guys