June Island Batik Funky Friends Challenge

Welcome to the June Island Batik Ambassadors Challenge!  This month the sponsor of our challenge is the Funky Friends Factory, and we were each allowed to pick a pattern to create with.  

Funky Friends Factory has a wonderful shop full of fun patterns.  The majority of patterns are for animals of all kinds.  I've made many animal patterns as an Ambassador over the years and this year I wanted to try something different.  I picked the Daisy Dress Up Doll this year.  I have a couple young great nieces and I thought the doll would make a nice gift for them- so I made two dolls.  

The dolls were fun to make.  It was fun to make two dolls as I could make different hair styles and clothing.  I used all Island Batik fabrics along with some felt for the shoes, eyes, cheeks, collars and flower.  It was fun to make the clothing in different colors so the girls can have fun dressing them up.

Here is how I decided on hair styles and other felt embellishments.

Pieces for making the head.

Attaching the bottom of the feet.  These girls have long legs!

Attaching the head and body back to the head and body front.  So far the piecing is easy!

Hobbs batting sent each Ambassador a package of 100% poly fiberfill for our project.  This is a great filling. called Simply Stuffing.  This was the first time I used this and it was great.

Sewing got a bit crazy when attaching the legs to the body!  The legs are already stuffed and have to be inserted into the body pieces to attach.  There are very good instructions and it went together nicely- but it did take a bit to get it together!  Sewing with Schmetz needles is great for seams and even though this thickness.

Here are the girls all sewn together.  Aren't they cute!

This is the first time I've ever made shoes.  They went together very easily with felt and Aurifil thread of course.

All the fabrics are from Island Batik.  It was fun to pick out the different colors to use.

Now came the fun of picking out fabrics for dresses and skirts and adding a flower and bow to their hair.

Another outfit.

And full dresses.

Did I mention that all the dresses and skirts are reversible?  That's great!  It gives even more possibilities on dressing them.

There are even collars that can be added to dress them up a bit more.  Also ribbon shoe laces which are cute, but I'm sure the little girls will immediately pull it off...

Aren't they cute!  And they are already friends as they hold each others hands.

These dolls are very fun to make and I'm sure all little girls will love them and like dressing them up.

Be sure to check out Funky Friend Factory to see all the other cute patterns they carry.

Many thanks to Island Batik,  Funky Friends Factory, Hobbs Batting, Schmetz needles and Aurifil Thread for supplying product to make this project thru the Island Batik Ambassador program.