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  1. A Picnic for One
  2. Sock Dolls for Parents and Children
  3. Lady creature
  4. Moon Man
  5. Parents, kids and sock dolls בובות גרב™™ם ל”ור™ם ו™ל“™ם
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A Picnic for One


The new creature...

… felt claustrophobic and bored in his own room.

So he packed his stuff,

and went out.

He spent a wonderful time out there.

*New creature is listed at my etsy doll store.


Sock Dolls for Parents and Children

Photos at this post by Mia Greenspan


I have just received these beautiful photos, taken at the Parents & Kids' Sock Doll workshop I conducted last week. The workshop took place at Emily, a beautiful children's bookstore in Tel Aviv.
The greatest challenge for me at this workshop was to make the participating girls (unfortunately, there were no boys) do their own stitching. As it was a Parents & Kids workshop, the girls found it much easier to let their moms do all the hard work. I had to insist that the little ones could and should sew by themselves. At that point, they had to face the fear that the dolls they would create wouldn't be as appealing as the one mom could make.
We settled on a compromise – the girls will give orders to mom, while sewing their own dolls.


The effort really paid off! There was such a lovely bunch of dolls, some of them made by the moms, and some by their 6-year-old girls.
Now, if you happen to live over here and haven't visited this lovely store yet, you should!
The photo below captures just a hint of its unique and cozy atmosphere.

On Sunday, November 29, I will conduct another workshop at Emily. This time I will teach participants how to create these yellow monsters, and we will also create creatures inspired by Maurice Sendak's classic book, Where the Wild Things Are.


Lady creature


Little Lady Creature holds her little handbag and wears her pink sweater – all ready to go out and explore the world. She has doubts about it; maybe it would be better staying in.

Lady creature is made out of unique combination of materials and techniques; her body, hands, and tail are made out of upcycled old socks. Her sweater made out of old sock as well, it has too tiny pockets and two studs. It can be taken off too.The crocheted vest collar embellished with small piece of vintage lace ribbon.The same lace ribbon is also used as the creature's headband and pieces of it stitched the back of her ears.This ribbon is at least 70 years old, it was belonged to my grandmother and I received it as a special gift from her few years ago. Her head is crocheted with cotton threads and facial features are embroidered.





*Lady creature is listed at my etsy doll store.


Moon Man


Early morning a few days ago, Moon Man woke up, packed an apple in his grocery bag, and ventured out to explore the world.






*You can find him at my etsy store


Parents, kids and sock dolls בובות גרב™™ם ל”ור™ם ו™ל“™ם


I created this sock head for workshop I have conducted, it is made out of old socks scraps and quite easy to stitch, and something also kids can do with little help.
On Tuesday November 3 at 17:00 I will conduct a workshop for parents kids at Emily the children's book store.
If you have 6-9 years old kids you are very welcome.

ביום שלישי הקרוב ה-3 לנובמבר אני מעבירה סדנת בובות גרביים באמילי חנות לספרי ילדים בשדרות בן גוריון
. בת"א
הסדנא מיועדת להורים וילדים בגילאי 6-9
פרטים והרשמה בטלפון: 03-5239624


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