woven doll

I recently did a basket making course, it was really inspiring, a room full of people and lovely smelling fibres strewn over the beautiful earthy space we were doing the workshop .

The majorty of the fibres were collected locally around Bellingen, which set my mind racing with ideas, it was like the idea of endless op shops to scour.

during the course of the next week my girls and I were collecting bits of palm flower frond and casurina and other fibres.

anyway, getting to the whiplash thing, I make dolls and have been working on one particular style, like this one below, inspired by a drawing by my daughter Coco who is 5. So when I began thinking about alternative craft, this was a classic whiplash for me, i just had to weave a doll.I really loved making this doll, the way the fibres do their own thing and seem to shape the doll themselves. I used palm flower frond and philadendron and some casurina in her hair, with a bit of felt.

here she is

a woven wind girl
I hope someone is inspired by this, thanks fellow crafters for the inspiration.

Cheers Tiff