I know, it's taken a loooong time to get her finished (I started way back in 2007 when I attended the last Doll U in Seattle) but the Gossips Doll is finally done! Yay! She has a stand too. She was part of a doll workshop that I took from Leslie Molen of Rootie Studio but she's also available as a pattern here.
Her clothing is made from batiks, silk shantung, microsuede and a fine cotton lawn and cotton eyelet trim found at the thrift store. Her hair is made from mohair which is caught up in a fine netting snood. She has beads, buttons, feathers and ribbons from head to toe. I couldn't let her shoes go unnoticed so I had her pick up her dress a bit to show it off. Naughty girl also wanted to show just a bit of her petticoat too. Although she can stand up by herself, I didn't feel comfortable putting her on a shelf somewhere just balanced on those two little shoes. After all we do live in California, home to earthquakes. So I made her a stand with a nice checkerboard floor.
What do you think of her? Should she have a name? What should it be?
