When Around the World in 12 dishes landed in Japan, LBG was working on her Indian Peacock. I gathered a few images in my ‘likes’ on Pinterest, and we had great fun looking through them a few days later. She, unsurprisingly, was taken with anything that related to Hello Kitty, but was most struck by the Japanese ladies in kimonos.
I thought that we could use pegs and make Japanese Peg Dolls, so was delighted to find a fabulous tutorial on Japanese dollies which gave me a very clear idea of how I could adapt the paper craft to a fabric one. Shortly after, I picked up a silky chemise in a charity shop and gathered bits and pieces that would help The Girls craft. These included:
adhesive ribbon
curling ribbon
markers
coloured duct tape
paper scraps- patterned and ribbed
Wrap a small length of paper/fabric round the neck of the peg and secure in place.
Take a square of fabric the length of the peg, and wrap around the peg over the top of the paper, leaving the edge of the inner collar showing. Fold in the wide edges of the fabric and hold in place, then secure with ribbon or tape.
Take a wide strip of fabric, paper or tape, and wrap around the body of your peg, over the recently secured ribbon/tape, then tie a contrasting strip of ribbon on top of this.
Add detail to the head with markers, then stick black pompoms to the back of the head for the hairpiece. Add floral/fabric embellishments.
For extra pizazz, you could add a cocktail umbrella to your ‘Little Maid from School‘.
Oh these dollies are so cute!!!
Thanks Mermaid. They are still a popular toy to play with too 😀
Great idea! I would love to have you link this up to my linky party! http://domesticrandomness.blogspot.com/2012/08/friday-fascinations-2-olympics-linky.html
Great project! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling sunday!
super cute! WHat a fun activity to do with your kids!
These dolls are super cute, and look like a lot of fun to make! I hope you will link up with me ehre:
http://www.thegingerbreadblog.com/2012/07/sweet-saturday-link-party-v48.html
What a wonderful idea, I will be having my kiddos make some of these for our Continent Boxes!! Also sharing with my readers on Facebook this week. Have a wonderful week!
Nicole
Thanks so much, Nicole. I’ll keep an eye out for them.
What a great idea, I think we’ll have a go at making some of these.
Thanks
These look great,we tried some a while back but ours didn’t work out to well,I said I would try again but keep forgetting 🙂