The Night Sprite

I was clearing off my desk yesterday when I came across this little polyclay head—a gift from a round robin participant (thanks Sylvia!)—and wondered what I could create with it. I continued cleaning when I happened across my bag of sticks (because, really, who doesn’t keep a large bag of random sticks in their studio?) and this doll was born. My original intent was to clean up my space, when in fact I managed to pull out various supplies including every piece of fibre, thread, bead and spangle I own. A special thanks to Suzanne for some of the yarns used in this piece. She was going to send them to the tip until she learned of my obsession with hoarding craft supplies fibres.

The doll itself went together very quickly, as I simply used a half-hitch to attach the yarns to the sticks. As usual, I was not satisfied with a ‘simple’ project, so I spent the rest of the evening stitching beads and spangles to the ribbons and creating sprays of stars with wire, and I like her all the better for it. :)

I made a little hanger out of wire so that she can hang on the wall above my desk…. I’ve got a nice little blank spot desperately wanting to be filled.