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Fabricate your own  Spirit Dolls & Icons

We are now offering Spirit Doll Kits for sale. Click here to view the purchasing page with currently available kits. 

These come in three varieties that include a carefully hand selected grouping of fabrics, polymer clay face and finery to get you started on these totally unique projects. Use them to create your own iconic shrines, spirit dolls, wearable art, or additions to a quilt or wall hanging.

With the soft, vibrantly hand-dyed cotton fabrics, silk and rayon ribbons, a polymer clay face and bag of assorted detail beads, feathers, trims, and sequins as a starting point for your creativity, make your own totem, necklace focal point or talismanic pillow!

Or create a shadow box, a mini shrine, a reticule or a guardian bag for your tarot cards and other special items. Personalize your design further by bringing out your own collected baubles, bells, or charms to embellish a one-of-a-kind piece that's all your own.

Add other fabrics from your "stash" if desired--velvets, lace or satins are always a nice touch! Throw in a few buttons and a tassel or two and you will have a truly awesome piece for display, treasuring, or gifting to someone you really like.

The fiery doll shown here was made using the pattern and cotton jersey fabric contained in the Deluxe Spirit Doll Kit--and she's not QUITE "done" in this picture.

There are LOTS more baubles, bangles, buttons and beads still to add!

In the picture at left you can see the tie dyed fabric and simple pattern. Plastic lunch trays make great project-sized holders for beads, sequins, buttons and more.

The doll has been sewn and stuffed, and the hair is made of strips of the fabric, pulled to make them roll into strings. They are sewn on with a bead to attach them.

A polymer clay face in the Noh Maiden style picks up the bronze tones in the fabric. This is attached by sewing through holes that are first hand drilled at the sides.

Polymer clay is easy to drill using a small hand held pin vise with a drill bit. A few turns, and you have a nice neat hole drilled ready for sewing or adding items like charms and dangles. The 100% cotton jersey fabric and the ribbons have been dyed using Procion MX series Fiber Reactive coldwater dyes, and thoroughly rinsed and washed using Retayne and Synthropol for dye permanence and no shrinkage or color bleeding. You can see the samples below from previous dyeing parties---saving a color sample allows you to track which colors were used, and which become favorites. The larger pieces of dyed fabric will become all sorts of things. 

By cutting sample swatches of cotton flannel, cotton jersey, cotton sheeting, and silk tussah ahead of time, its easy to track how the different fabrics take the dye.

It can vary WIDELY! fabrics with nap like flannel and velvet are particularly luscious---and they really soak up the dye.

Knowing how different strengths of pigments used in your original mixes turn out is very useful.We also have smaller square swatches--but these shown here are bagged and labeled with the name and number of the dye.

The plastic bags in which they are contained allow us to have them out when doing a new batch of dyeing, without risking new and colorful spots!