Flat cat with drawing

As you can see this is another model I have tried and it is again rather flat. That means that I have used little wadding to fill it. The doll is made of two pieces sewed on an electric machine together and then filled from a small hole left on the head. After filling the hole on the head it is sewed by hand.

Now what is special about this little one is that the front side is made of hard unstretchable textile and the back side is made of soft stretchable textile. The reason is complicated. First because of the turning upside down of the sewed material. Because the doll is quite small – not more that 10 cm height – the front viewable side is after the sewing inside and when you try to turn this around it doesn’t go as smooth as you would like it to. So when you put a stretchable textile that turning process goes more easily. But if you put stretch textile on both sides of the doll it will be ( it depends of course of the stretch material) too stretchy. It will not stand the way you want it to, but rather it will stand at the way the stretch material allows it to. And that’s the reason why I have put on the front side a material that will not stretch and will keep the doll just the way I want it to be.

So that’s about all concerning the front and back side of the doll. – one side soft material, the other side harder material. That’s it.

There is another thing about the two materials and it has to do with variety. One textile doll is pretty but combinations of textile – that’s even more interesting and can give you various esthetics. You could mix different tones of one color, different colors and so on. It’s fun.

But what about the painting? Water paint will not do, because simply if you would like to wash the doll it will end up looking like hell with no eyes and nothing of what you meant it to be. So you should use textile paint if you could find such. But textile paint must be ironed i think and that is a little bit, just a little bit of a problem. It’s not impossible but there are easier ways like acrylic paint. After you place the paint on the textile ready doll you just wait and when it is dry it is ready. It will not melt in to water, it will not fall – it’s even irremovable i think when it is dry. So be careful when you paint or what the hell – free your imagination!

So that’s about all of this little cat like doll. I’m sure you can make it more pretty.