Category button eyes

art doll, button eyes, cloth doll, Coraline, doll's doll, floss hair, handmade, handpainted doll, miniature dolls, raincoat, stop animation movies, Workshop Chronicles

Coraline and her doll

Coraline is an unforgettable character. I have watched the movie more than ten times, and still have questions about it. Neil Gaiman is such a clever writer. I wish I could have written the story, I didn’t , but still I…

Margarita H Maxson
September 10, 2011

braided face, button eyes, cats, cloth doll, coffee stained dolls, Folk Art doll, hand made clothes, hand painted face, hand sewn doll, ice cream, muslin dolls, needle sculpting, primitive dolls, raggedy Ann, stitched hair, stripped stockings, wool hair, Workshop Chronicles

A new journey: Doll making

I learned to use the sewing machine and basic handcraft skills at my mother’s sewing workshop. She used to have a production of 300 coats a week.But it was very different to make dolls. It was new for me, and…

Margarita H Maxson
April 13, 2010