Sew Happy

Button Emporium and Ribbonry in downtown Portland is a small storefront where I could spend hours browsing for treasures.  It was the proprietor of the shop who planted the idea to make dolls for Portland's children's hospital.  I started making dolls in August. On a beautiful Portland Fall day last week, Howard and I rode Portland Streetcar and Tram to the OHSU campus to deliver five dolls and a dragon.  We hope the children receiving these toys enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.  

UrbAnimals: It's a jungle out there!

 I have made a few dolls through the years.  Some are featured in my post last fall: Toys In the Attic.  In August, something triggered a compulsion to make dolls, so I went to my closet and started pulling out bits and pieces of fabric, paints, buttons and batting.  In the past couple of months, I have made ten dolls.  Seven of those dolls are awaiting their destiny and will be introduced in a future post. The dolls featured here are my own designs.  The giraffe and elephant were my first designs.  Since I was unsure how they would turn out, I did not document the process.  By the time I started the camel, I had an idea how to work through the steps without multiple do-overs.  Photographs documenting creation of the camel are included below. 

I hope the UrbAnimals make you smile.