It had all been going so well.

I had been rattling along making dolls at a fine old pace. The process was relatively smooth – and enjoyable.

I had a feeling it wouldn’t last forever.

This doll was where things started to slow down.

I got distracted making my bunny girl.

But that was partly because, after getting as far as completing her crimplene mini skirt, I couldn’t work out where to go next. What does one wear with a crimplene mini skirt?

I decided upon a blouse. And that was where things slowed down a bit further. Because I had to work out what sort of blouse to make, and how to make it.

As you can see, I got there in the end.

Well, I will have got there, once I’ve found some little tiny silver press studs to finish it off. Having gone through my entire big button tin I found, unbelievably, that I don’t have any.

I have called her Mary. It’s the hair.

I meandered through the hair-creation process whilst listening to Mary Portas reading her rather marvellous autobiography Shop Girl on the radio last week.

And somehow, something in my brain, without any intentional desire on my part, compelled my fingers to reproduce Mary Portas’s hairdo…

So Mary she is.

The other bit of contrariness occurred after being driven nearly to distraction trying to make Mary a suitably stylish blouse.

It seems that struggling with the intricacies of micro-blouse construction had been unnecessary after all.

The evidence was there on the cover of Shop Girl.

I should’ve just made her a flowery frock instead. ♥