I've had difficulty motivating myself to finish up all of my dolls that I loose interest in, and this is another one that barely had anything left to do, but still sat in my wip bag untouched for months.
I'd started work on her last summer, before we went to Iowa for my uncle-in-law's funeral in July. I'd pretty much finished her with her body, dress and wig cap complete before returning home, but once we got here I put her away since I was kind of annoyed with how far apart her eyes are. I'd intended on re-doing my own version of the pink dressed Selah doll since looking back, she's kinda funky looking. I ended up pretty much creating a new doll instead of just making the same one in blue.
My daughter had gotten into my wip bag on Saturday and pulled her out and was walking around the house with her, hugging her, patting her back, and pretending to nurse her. One thing was bugging her though, she kept pointing to the dolls head and asking "hair?" So, I got out her wig cap and then used 4 strands of yarn in 2 different colors to embroider the hair on the head. I wasn't feeling too ambitious, so that's why she has a bob, and besides it was my youngest sister's hairstyle for the majority of her preschool- elementary school days. Maybe someday I'll feel like spending gobs of time making lot's of hair on a doll, but for now my daughter's satisfied with her hair this way.
She's a good sized doll too, probably around 10 inches tall. She looks a bit distorted though, since she's SO top heavy, she doesn't stand up against anything, I spent a couple of minutes trying to get her up, but her poor legs just don't withstand that much weight up top. Besides, she's not made the typical way I make the rest of my dolls so her legs are just sewn on instead of crocheted along with the body.
