Mary Clock...my month of May Cloth Doll.



Mary was a doll I thought would be a nice challenge for the month of May.
With spring just setting into summer, I wanted to give her the feeling of a fresh bouquet.
I also wanted an oldfashsioned colonial type of dress.



To make her interesting, I thought to add a working clock, some romantic letters and postcards to show momentos of time past. These additions came about when I caught a look at a class held too far from my home, that had been taught by a wonderful cloth doll artist named Barbara Willis. Her doll was called, "Memory Box Doll", or something to that effect...I was so enthralled with the idea of combining two images to create a doll, that I just had to try my hand at making one.

So without a pattern or idea of what to put together, I looked around my messy craft table and saw flowers! Flower patterned fabric, a flower bulbs magazine and some floral odds and ends that all said here is spring and summer a theme that dolls love.

Thinking along the line that spring and summer are so fleeting a time to truly enjoy, I wanted to make a doll that would remind me of those colorful seasons each time I checked the hour. So a clock  mechanisms was needed... I had a few of those laying about, from another project and finally put one more to use.

All in all,  I love how she came out for my first try on making it from scraps...

I think I'll try doing this again. lol