Dolls and Ceramics: Hitty, Quilt, and Medusa Pot #2

The picture above has a whole lot of recent happenings. I have been busy trying out all kinds of new ideas.

Hitty has a new yo-yo quilt to add to her little home. It is completely handmade using the Clover extra small yo-yo maker. I used up lots of fabric scraps, including some remnants from Hitty dresses I’ve made in the past. The quilt has 140 total yo-yos. It was a very relaxing and portable project.

Hitty is wearing one of the first outfits I made for these kinds of dolls. I am currently making more embroidered pinafores as my portable project. I made this Hitty from a Gail Wilson Hitty kit.

The Medusa pot is my second attempt at the project. You can see Medusa pot #1 here. It’s still a work in progress, but I like the idea. The glaze needed more of a generous coating for the planned cool results, but I’m better prepared for the next project. Trial and error will eventually yield the optimal results. In the words of Mad Eye Moody, “CONSTANT VIGILANCE!”

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Dolls and Ceramics: Kikipop and Cat Dish

Kikipop and a cat dish. I feel like I have a goofy collection of photos.

The second slip-casting mold I ever made was all the little kitties on the cat dish above. I added four cats to a wheel-thrown bowl and painted it with underglaze. Maybe there is a pet cat out there that deserves some pastel cute culture in their life.

The doll pictured is Kikipop. This Kikipop doll is from 2015 and called “Honey Pink.” She is from the first run of Kikipop dolls made in collaboration with Azone. Her body has great construction and it takes very little effort to get her into a cute pose. She is wearing her original wig and Mattel Sanrio clothing.

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Dolls and Ceramics: Vintage Skipper and The Bunny Bowl

A friend commissioned a challenge — a large serving bowl with cute bunnies around the edges. This is a part of my new ceramic series that combines vessels with objects from old slip-casting molds. I also made a Medusa pot in the same fashion. I picked up a couple bunny molds a few months ago and started using them just in time for Easter.

Typically, my ceramic work is pretty small. It was a nervous task to take on a big bowl. The bowl is a slab laid into a plaster mold. I slip-casted six bunnies and attached them to the bowl. After some careful drying of the bunny bowl, I added eyes with underglaze and bisqued the piece. I added a clear glaze and called it good. It’s a tad wobbly, but it is pretty decent for my first large prototype in this series.

The doll pictured is a vintage Skipper in a random bunny costume that, I think, was originally intended for a BJD. She’s wearing Momoko boots.

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