Obachan Group -10: Even though the body is covered I feel more comfortable knowing the body looks as it should nude. Some folks use wadded up tape and just make polymer clay heads, hands and feet. My feeling is the body still looks like wadded up tape and not an old grandmother, or young babe. Hearts of gold cane is reiterated for the pattern on this clay "fabric", but that's another webthread.
That kimono pattern is just extruded gold hearts with black surround, one of the few times you can use clay straight from the package and not look cheesy.
that day? So I had to fiddle faddle with it to make the oversized round bits fit.
Taking the sheet and slicing it and offsetting the slices and then pressing it again gets this woven effect on the mat. The scarf and the ottoman/pillow thing are just something to do with my scraps.
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there make lace cane.
Take slices of this lace cane made of hearts and make a sheet. I made sheets
by stacking the canes and jiggling them so they stick and
sliced it like lunch meat.
Kimonos are just rectangles and squares, easy as dirt. The doll was made
with Aluminum foil and was bendable so dressing her was easy too.
Put the kimono on her and put her back in the kneeling position, adjust the
folds, call it a day.
When you have the smallest scrap left over make something very small. Can't waste fun cane.