The making of The Princess and the Pea, doll, bed and pea, Part 2

This princess and the pea creation is a gift for my granddaughter. I hope she likes it as much as I do! You can see how I created the bed in Part 1.
My first attempt at making the princess doll was not so great. One arm was so much longer than the other and I just didn’t like the way it was turning out, so I started all over again. The second attempt was better, but only slightly.

This time I made the arms, legs and head separately. Ignore the head in these pictures because I ended up cutting it off.

After I had it sewn together, I cut off her head and attached a bigger head with a few hand stitches. That’s how I do most projects…..making it up as I go along.
I drew on her face with fine tipped markers. For her hair I basically followed a tutorial like THIS. I twisted some pipe cleaners into her head and body so her head wouldn’t fall over due to the weight of her hair.

Here’s how she turned out. I’m glad I was going for cuteness and not perfection!

I used an elastic hair band as the base for her tutu, then tied on strips of tulle and ribbon.

Here she’s wearing her cape, princess hat and even furry boots. The base for her hat is made from pipe cleaners and her boots are pieces of furry trim glued together.

Her bed was sprayed purple and I added some black accents and a princess plaque.

She only has 7 mattresses. In the story she has 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds!

My friend used her fancy Baby Lock sewing machine to embroider the blanket for me. Would I ever love to have a machine like that! It’s awesome!

The pea is oversized to prevent little ones from putting it in their mouths! A round wooden ball encased in fiber filling with a piece of green felt hand sewn around it, is how I made the pea.

Do you think she looks like a blonde Shannen Doherty!

I wrapped it like this, so the box can be lifted off on Christmas morning.

This series was supposed to be in 3 parts, but I wanted to get it posted before Christmas so I squeezed it into 2 parts. She knows the story of the Princess and the Pea so it’s going to be awesome watching her open this. I’ll try to get some good pictures to share.

Merry Christmas!

Debbie (((xx)))

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