Ragdoll now has hair

2024-05-17T19:22:41Z

Ragdolly for the new Mrs. Hawking play now has hair. I cut lengths of this thick acrylic yarn, folded them in half, and sewed them in rows down the back of her head. Then I took a handful of yarns and draped them across the top of her forehead to create a hairline. I sewed those down with a slightly off center stitch to look like a left hand "part". I considered styling it in some way, but I kinda like it the way it is.

All that remains is to embroider on a little smiling mouth. Probably going to do it in pink, which hopefully will keep it from looking too Jokerish. With the button eyes there is definite creepy potential to end up looking like the Other Mother from Coraline.

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Making a ragdoll prop

2024-05-08T13:40:10Z

We need a ragdoll as a prop for the new Mrs. Hawking play, In the Bones, and I was having trouble finding one in a thrift store. I bought one that I thought might work, but it was actually a mostly porcelain ball-jointed doll that was too fragile for my purposes. So I took the doll's dress and bloomers and decided to make the body myself.

I sewed her a little tube torso from scraps, then stuffed the bloomers and stitched them onto the torso at the waist. I stuck this inside the dress, pulling just the top edge of it through the neck hole. Then I gathered more of the white scrap into a ball and sewed it onto that top edge pf the body to form the head. I stuffed more scrap into the sleeves and attached them at the cuffs to make hands.

For the face, I'm planning on button eyes, an embroidered mouth, and big thick yarn for hair. Getting the eyes on was as far as I got tonight, so I'll do the rest tomorrow. I'm liking how she's turning out.

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All Eyes on Me

Ragdoll now has hair

Making a ragdoll prop