Whiplash

The convergence has finally occurred, and I not only remembered the Whiplash challenge for this week by the time I got home, I was actually struck by an idea as I was putting Michelle to bed. I came right downstairs and started working on it.





I made a small muslin doll a few weeks ago, with the intention that it would occupy a paper mache chair that I made. Michelle has claimed the chair (and two others) as her own, and the doll has been neglected.

So with the theme "yarn" in mind, I started to pull out all of my old yarn bobbins from weaving. When I used to weave, there would always end up being a little bit of yarn left on the bobbins that I just would run out of room for. Since I have lots of bobbins, I would just leave the yarn there "for next time." Needless to say, I have plenty just sitting around with lots of nice yarns. So I started to wrap the doll with yarn. Of course, soon enough I found the need to use some other yarns from the stash. Every time I added a new color, it changed the whole feeling of the doll.




I've often felt that putting yarn into some structure takes away some essential appealing characteristic of the yarn. Certain yarns that I have collected never look as good once I knit or weave or whatever with them. This doll I think conveys the pure color and texture of yarn itself, without any structure to distract from it. In any case, she was fun to do and I think a very nice transformation from a naked unfinished doll!