Victorian Batting Dolls
 

I have managed to make some more batting dolls over the past year. Every once in a while I have a get together with a friend and we sit and make Batting dolls. They are very time consuming as they are made entirely by hand and hand stitched. I am quite hooked on them and feel I have improved on the original ones that I first made. They are the two in the picture with father Christmas. He is the most recently made one and I am very happy with him. I feel the first two a little on the anorexic side, I now pad them a little more and I am much happier with the finished result. I hope to get a couple more made before the year is ended. We mostly only get one finished and maybe another started during the few hours we get together to make them.

These are neat! Very nice work~

Wonderful dolls! You do a great job!

Very unique and beautiful. Do they have greeting card faces??

Those are absolutely delightful. I would like more info on the faces too --- looks like something I might try. I'm getting older and bucket list is getting longer -- what's a girl to do?

I think they are all so beautiful. a lot of work, for sure.

Beautiful, great work !

The faces are reproduction Victorian Scraps. I have mine colour copied onto heavier card. You could also use small bisque doll heads.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=v...FQWfpgod8y8JWg

I now what you mean about the bucket list getting longer and we are getting older. I try to make every minute count, I don't sleep a lot as I figure one day I am going to have a very long sleep, and I don't need to spent ,my time here sleeping it away.

those dols are darling! Just darling!