Injung

So I finally got to give out my friend's doll for her birthday. It was a hard process, both in the making, and in the giving. My friend Injung is as hard to please as my best friend Lala when it comes to this kind of thing. While I am happy that they care enough to give me hints as to what they expect, and what to fix, it is not always easy to fix something like a doll's hair when it's made with unwoven wool.

I made the most of the doll in a coffee shop waiting for my boyfriend to get off work. I wanted to try a new coffee place, and when I got there, it was super awkward.

The looks at me, asks, are you waiting for someone? I'm like, no...? Then she goes, "Oh, you are going to do homework?", and I get more and more curious: Why in hell would she care? I tell her I'm making a doll.

I realize, as she brings me in those tiny two people table in a mini-room, that this place is probably mostly used for people coming on a blind date, looking for a spot for themselves. Oh, well, I had an interesting time listening to the awkward conversations on the booths beside mine, as I sipped coffee and made my doll.

Later on I work on the backpack I want to make for her. It is a super cool backpack in the end, that can actually be open to put things inside (though I doubt it'll ever be used), made of red lamb leather and rainbow colored thread. I swear I killed this backpack 2 000 times in my mind while I made it. It was so hard to put the needle through the leather! At the end, I took a small hammer and a nail for putting painting on a wall, and piered the leather before sewing, and hated myself for not doing it before.

The bag took more than 2 weeks to make.

That's when I started thinking maybe I didn't want to give it away to my friend afterall...

It took me a while figuring out how to make the shoes ad tights, but I ended up painting the legs all black, and using the top part of a black sock, as well as two strings of elastic for the showlaces. The result pleased me. I was happy with it.

For the hair I first made the hair with a nice bob, as I changed the look of it to make it go with the flow, and give it a doll style, but my friend's first comment was "is my hair really like that?"

So, I fixed it to a straighter and thinner hairdo. Then I realized too late that she had a separation in the middle, and I dunno why, I was sure she only had the bangs'.

Anyways, the separation I can't change. Another thing is that while I made the doll, she let her hair grow, and now it's a slightly different hairstyle, that would have been easier and prettier to do had I known before. Her hair, instead of being straight and slightly going inwards, is now curled outside around the shoulders. I wish I could have tried to make it that way, but I already had the doll wrapped up to give when I saw that.

Too bad.

The picture on the bottom is what I ended up with, by lowering the hairdo, and taking off some volume. It gives it a less prefectly rounded up doll look, and more human style.

If I could change anything about this doll, it'd be the legs' length. I had already done toomuch of the doll when I realized I should have put them a little deepen in the body for them not to look too long. It's a matter of a centimeter, really and it doesn't show much on the pictures, but there is that slightly awkward length thing going on that I wish I could fix.

...anyways, here we go. Injung has now left the safety of my house... T.T

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