Thank ye! I like her a lot too even though she's not that fitting to make Seekers dolls. Still, perhaps I'll make another one of her one day so she has a friend.
Here are some work-in-progress shots of what keeps me busy night and day for over a week:
Horse handbags for my husband's little nieces.
I had to start over four times until I got the pattern hammered down for my purpose. I use a different hook size than suggested because I couldn't get the suggested strength of wool and thus I had to adapt a lot to achieve a nice size. I also wanted to go for a more Filly-like look so I made some deliberate changes to the head (it's shorter than the original) and the legs (they don't have that fluffy ring, originally).
I work on these all day for over 7 days now but it's slowly all coming together. Still 5 legs, 3 saddle halves, the 4 handles and an ungodly amount of hair to make. I want to make them crocheted ringlets instead of lose wool hair so they won't fray and tangle so fast.
I will decorate them with sequins, possibly fastened with rocaille beads and maybe I'll add some tiny bows I bought. They'll get special doll eye buttons as eyes which look like glass eyes from the front but are sewn on like a button at the back. That seems safer to me than using glass eyes which can rip out of the wire loop on their back if a child plays too wild.
Btw, I got the crochet pattern from here:
kristieskids.weebly.com/1/post/2007/11/horse-purse-pattern-at-long-last.html
These are the biggest crochet things I ever made. My hands hurt like hell and I didn't get anything else done for a week but I hope the little ladies will like them. It just feels nice that my craft is appreciated for once, so it's fun and rewarding to spend my time on this.
In theory I may even sell these handbags but the material is so expensive that I doubt anyone would pay me what I would have to ask. Still, they will make nice items for the gallery. ^^