Santa Progress

Just a bit of explanation of how

I put the bodies together.

So I made myself a little graph

that you see lying below the bodies.

  This way they will be accurately

proportioned.  The body is usually

8 heads tall.  This is how

I figure out his height and arm length.  

 

 

 Then the body parts are wired together

and then held in place with

duct tape. So it sort of

resembles a wire skeleton.

 

 

Then a rock is taped into the torso.

This gives the doll some

weight and substance.

 

 

 

 

Next batting is wrapped

around all the wire

body parts.

 

 

Once it's adequately quilted

You wrap the body with these

sticky bandage material, found in

all drug stores.

 

 

Then wa~la!  you have

a little bandage body

with pose able arms and legs

 

 

One of them has a longer neck, but I think

it'll be well hidden, by a nice white beard.

 

Next on to the sheep's wool beard, hair

and attaching eye lashes!

 

Am I hearing jingle bells

around the corner??

Yikes!  I hope the clothing won't be too difficult.