No time for a proper posting today. It is taking, as always, a day to dress four two-inch dolls. Even though they are small the clothes still have to be designed, patterns made, fabric selected, cut out and sewn before being placed on the dolls and sewn up. There are no compromises and nothing made by the thousand on machines, it’s still the one woman, one needle way of doing things round here. I once worked out that I’m working for 17 pence an hour but only if I sell everything.
However this way of doing things means that collectors can afford this range of dolls of the world which will be £15 each, and the dolls will last many years, potentially hundreds and can be redressed to last hundreds more.
The people that have been taking all my time are the Inuit ladies. Here they are
they have ultrasuede trousers. Ultrasuede is horrendously expensive thin suede of superb quality which will keep them lovely and warm out on the ice, poor chilly things. They have lovely soft chammy leather jackets and hoods. The dressed ones all look happy, don’t they? The undressed ones look worried so I’d better stop yakking to you and get on. There’s only three and a half weeks to Scottish Miniatura and I still wish to make and dress two boxes of 24th scale and get my new 12th scale lady up and running.
I may be obliged to remove some dolls from the shop to take, if you have been hovering over a doll, please claim it before the start of June.
And there are a load of pictures I want to paint too. Oh when are the EU going to metricate time and bring in the 30 hour day?
JaneLaverick.com – speed sewing, whoosh.
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