Socks and Feet

For a few days she was just sitting there, waiting.

 

Her feet were on my desk, and I had yet to finish the second one.

Meanwhile, I got some news about these two; they have to leave for Chicago tomorrow.

 

I am going to miss this Sock Boy in particular. He has been staying here for over two years, during which time he became a very dear friend of me, a wonderful assistant, and a model at my sock doll workshops.

Take care, dear friend. I hope you are going to have fun in Chicago.

The other sock friends threw a little party for them, before they had to leave for the post office.

 At the same time, she took a nap. It was evident that her foot wouldn't be ready in the next few hours.

Crocheting the first foot

 

  I will come back soon with more updates...

The hands

Those were first, but they didn't fit very well,

 

 so I had to replace them, it lasted a while, till I figured out how should I crochet the human-like hands.

 And here they are, tomorrow I will begin with the feet.

And yet in progress

Growing-up

Here she is, yet there is much more to be done; keeping on unpicking and re-crocheting, over and over again. The pace is slow, and now I keep working on the hands and legs.

More work in progress

  

There was much unpicking involved in my working process during the last few days, it has been growing at a slower pace. 

Work in progress

Back to crochet

    I couldn't put down my crochet hook last week, and the crocheted heads have been growing on my desk.

Coming soon-Crochet workshop

Recently I have been busy getting ready for a new crochet workshop I will be conducting next month here in my new home studio. It required a lot of thinking and concentration on my part, since when I create my items; I just crochet freestyle, finding my way with the hook and stitches. I have a raw idea in my mind which comes to life loop by loop, and I don’t follow any patterns. Actually, it is not that simple. Many times it required countless unpicking until I got the form I wanted; a long trial and error process would perhaps be a better way to describe it. I have developed this process over the years, and came up with new ideas and techniques from doll to doll.

Many times I was asked to teach my own unique crocheting technique, I didn't feel confident enough to do so. But as I received more and more requests, I decided to give it a try. At first I made those trials by my own, and then asked a friend to be my guinea pig. I taught her my principles and it seemed like they were clear enough, she managed to come up with a crocheted head on her own, following my instructions. There still remain some issues like creating the workshop schedule and deciding on the number and duration of meetings, as well as some details about the process I have to plan, but  I will publish the invitation in the following few days.

Send me an e-mail if you'd like me to e-mail you when the invitation is done or if you'd like to join my mailing list, where I send updates about upcoming workshops.