My project for this weekend was to make a rag doll for my step-daughter's little girl... who turns 1 year old tomorrow.

Almost every single bit of the fabric was scrap.... however, her hair was a fleece scarf I’d picked up at the Dollar Giant store a couple of years ago. I buy the cheap fleece scarves for just this sort of thing. I used a pastel variegated thread for the inside part of the heart... and I did do it as though it was an applique... so the dark pink is fabric and not embroidery. The denim was already embroidered... I bought it that way.

I don't know where I got the heart design... some of you may know where it comes from. I certain it was a freebie, though. The face design, I got from Secrets of Embroidery several years ago.

Thank goodness I had a LARGE bag of poly-fill here. LOL! It took a lot of fill for her head.

I had scoured the arts and crafts sites looking for a rag doll pattern yesterday. That was an exercise in frustration. I finally found one that sort of looked like what I had in mind. What I ended up doing my own thing with a little bit of inspiration from the pattern I found. This was a learning curve... it carried a hefty lesson that was tough to get through. By the time I sewed the last stitch a while ago, I felt like I'd fought a battle all weekend long.

Liz