The First Half has been completed
[ID START: a picture of 9 crochet plushies leaning up against a tree. END ID]
I have finally completed the first phase of my @hellofromthehallowoods dolls, and am super excited to talk about them! beware, however, as this post will inevitably be long. So long in fact, that I actually logged into this godforsaken website rather than use the app, so I could properly type.
[ID START: a photo of one of the dolls from the above photograph. The doll is of a white girl with brown buzz cut hair. She has brown eyes and wears a red tank top with a black jacket. Her Jeans are blue, and her shoes are black. END ID]
Riot was my first doll, which also means she's my least favorite. This was a doll that made many firsts for me, including crocheting pants, and not rooting the hair of the doll. Given my affinity for doll hair, she just never felt complete too me. She also just seemed incredibly bulky due to all of the layers of yarn blanketing her. It makes her rather stiff. That said, I did learn a lot while making her that you'll see through the rest of the first half.
{ID START: another photograph of a doll from the above image. She is a black girl, with black hair, eyes, and glasses. She wears a dress with a salmon top, and neon pink skirt. It has a teal bow around the waist with a pale yellow center. She wears yellow leggings and teal boots. END ID]
Naturally, Clara came next. I still think she's my favorite of the first phase of dolls. I knew from the start that she wore a dress; although, I had pictured her in something more... calm? regardless, I was doing a huge deep dive into J-fashon at the time, and it likely seeped a bit into my work. I have no regrets. She's adorable! Also she got to be the first doll I've ever embroidered glasses on to!
[ID START: a photo of another doll from the top photo. This one is white with black hair pulled back into two braids. She wears a plain, sparkly blue dress, with matching shoes. END ID]
Did I buy this blue yarn specifically to make this doll? Yes. Do I have any regrets? nope. I based this design loosely on Wednesday Adams, because Friday just frankly gives me those vibes. Her design is quite simple, but I do love how her and Clara look when next too each other.
[ID START: another photo of one of the dolls. This time the doll hangs from a tree, They have choppy black hair, and a patchwork of different skin tones stitched to their body, with pink thread. they have pale eyes, a white shirt, black jacket, and blue jeans. END ID]
Diggory Graves was a challenge to design. A known hill I will die on is that they wear a plague doctor mask; however, I knew I'd have a hard time showcasing their skin if I gave them one. Design wise, I like the stitches, so I originally sewed a plague doctor mask to the side of the head, as I had seen that done with creepy pasta fanart in the past.It didn't look as good in a 3D space as it had in 2D, so I ended up getting rid of it all together. Make no mistake however, this character absolutely wears a plague doctor mask.
[ID START: another photo of one of the dolls. This one has light blue skin, and takers off where the feet should be, to a small crochet paint cord. He has mess dark blue hair, black a blue dress shirt, and a purple vest on top. END ID]
Percy went through a few designs before I settled on one I liked. I have an incredibly hard time doing short hair, and somewhat wanted to choose a design that would allow that to be a feature rather than a flaw. At the end of the day, I just ended up sort of going for it. I had purposefully made Diggory's hair choppy, so why couldn't I do Percy's the same? He did cut both of their hair at some point.
[ID START: another picture of a doll. This one has white skin, puffy blue hair, a light blue jacket under a sparking blue cape. They have a white shirt with black pants and blue shoes. Their eyes are also blue. END ID]
I adore Olivier so much. Just, I would die for them. I had wanted to make them using a mid tone between the two tones you've seen me use throughout this post, but my dog decided that that yarn was his actually (aka he tore it up and had it all over the house.) Living in the woods, while also being blind and thus unable to drive, does sadly mean that I couldn't just go to my local craft store and pick some up; the show still had to go on. I wanted to link them with Friday by using the same yarn for her dress in their cape. I quite like how this one turned out.
[ID START: another picture of a crochet doll. This one has pale skin, black pants, a brown wing like cape, and a red shirt. They have a moth tattoo on their face, have red eyes and pale blonde hair. END ID]
Sadly, Moth is the first, and only time I've ever interacted with a character/ person who uses neopronouns. I'm still trying to get around how they work, and Hello From the Hallowoods is currently my only point of reference to that. I've always imagined Moth having albinism. I don't know why, but I didn't question it when designing the doll. I also went back and forth a lot about giving moth, moth's tattoo, and where it would go. I know its on moth's neck in the show, but the necks on these dolls are frankly way to small to attempt doing that.
[ID START: an image of a dark skinned crochet doll. She had black hair with flecks of red, orange and yellow throughout. She has matching dog ears and a matching tail. Her hair is pulled back into a messy braid. She wears a white tank top with khaki pants and black shoes. END ID]
Please know that I watched an entire 2 hour documentary about Oscar Wilde, and Spirited away, while rooting her hair, yet I still had time to catch up on a few other podcasts as well. She has so much hair. I may or may not have been crying, and my fingers hurt so bad. I probably should have decided to just give her black hair and save myself the pain, but I refuse to make anything easy for myself. I do not regret anything however, because I love how she turned out.
[ID START: another picture of a white, crochet doll. He has long, red and orange hair, that is curled, and is worn in a bony tail. He has red eyes and horns to match. He wears a silver suit, with pink pants and matching silver shoes, END ID]
I was originally going to make Polly before Yaretzi, but someone, who knows who they are, made that difficult. I'm trying to make these dolls as close to the cannon discriptions as I can, so I had to wait out the incident too make sure Polly was OK before making the doll. He was going to be much more pink than he is now, but midway through I decided actually I hated it, and started over in a very me fashion.
You may notice a lack of Mort. I did want to add him to this phase, but I haven't figured out how I wanted to actually go about writing a pattern for him. I adore that hunk of metal so, so much, but I already write my own patterns, and don't really know where to start with him. In all likeliness, he'll make up the final phase of this project. I also didn't post Dogsmell because I hated how he turned out; although he is still on my blog, and will be re-making him at some point.
Because I am going off to college here soon, and do not know what to expect, I have decided to take a break from this project before beginning the second phase. I want to work on other projects in the time being. Once I'm settled in I shall continue on with phase two!
For those wondering, phase two will include these characters in no particular order:
kianamaiart
pixelskylines
gummygunk
kaledo-art
