I didn’t understand why people care about their dumb Padawans until I got a dumb Padawan myself. I’ve only known Ahsoka for a day and a half. But if anything happened to her, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.
Beaded doll: Ahsoka Tano
This week’s doll is Ahsoka Tano, first introduced in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, and let me just say right from the start please forget everything I’ve ever said about hair being difficult.
Well. In case the above sentence didn’t make it clear, that was quite a tricky one ;) I actually started on this doll several months ago, then got stuck trying to figure out how to shape the head tails, got frustrated put it aside for a while, came back later, and so on, until I finally sat myself down a little while ago and didn’t let up until I found a shape that worked. I probably made five or six “test heads” before I figured out the final version…
Once I had the design finished, the actual construction was a bit of a problem as well, because there’s hardly any room – once I had the head and body finished, I actually had to grab my needle with small pliers at times to attach the arms because my fingers couldn’t fit under the lekku to reach her shoulders and upper back. So all in all, this is definitely the most challenging doll I’ve made so far, and I must say I’m rather proud for finishing it :)
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Materials: 11° and 15° TOHO and MIYUKI seed beads, round beads, bugle beads, felting wool, craft wire, nylon thread
Size: approx. 3.3 inches/8.5 centimetres
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