Soft dolls - recent magazine and blog feature

I am so slow with blogging and adding actual things to my blog. It's just that I have always lack of time and sometimes I even forgot or I think that I've already done something. I hate to see that I'm wrong. And I hate to admit that as well;)

Anyway, about a month (or so) ago, I had such a pleasure to be featured in the Serbian "Roditelj i dete" magazine, where I was featured for the first time about 2 years ago. This time the feature regarded my fabric dolls and toys. Almost about the same time, I was thrilled to be contacted by uber talented Abby Glassenberg - plush pattern designer, craft book author, sewing teacher and blogger behind the blog "While she naps". She wrote a wonderful post about designing softies on Spoonflower and I was so happy that among a few templates she happen to choose to sew among thousands of wonderful cut and sew templates @ Spoonflower, she chose my kawaii ice cream cones and cupcakes play softies food and left a wonderful feedback and suggestions. Especially for that blog post, I created the phases of my creative process and you can see it bellow.











Lately, I also designed the 4 princesses dolls and can't wait to show you the finished, sewn dolls!Another great thing is that localy, here in Belgrade, you can find and purchase my dolls in 2 shops:
WannaBE & TOY shop
Minicity
Worldwide, there is always my etsy shop, dedicated to these little cuties;)

xo, Katarina

Dolls mania

If you remember this blog post, then you will know that this new endeavor will hardly end. It's getting bigger and better and I keep designing new doll styles almost every day.







I am so enjoying this pile of dolls, all the little details, all the little mistakes I made during this process, but what I cherish most is that it's totally MY design and my product-from the drawing till the sewn doll and packaging design -the completed product.







Each week, I am eagerly waiting for the postman to arrive and bring me some new doll templates. It's a long way down the road, as it starts here, it's printed in the USA and the final product is made here again. So, the turnaround takes more than a month, but, I am so happy with the results.







The dolls are printed on the great quality, 100% cotton poplin, stuffed with 100% polyester wadding and are sewn with utmost love and care and special attention to a detail. As far the reactions are great, little girls love them, as much as adults.







xo, Katarina

Dolls, dolls, dolls

After creating some fun softie toys and dolls in fabric, my kids and I realized that we can have more fun with toys and fabric. So, I designed some new dolls, just for the start. I firstly wanted to be sure that they can be assembled easily enough to go further with playing with some clothes styles, hair styles and even faces types , colours and styles. It is a lot of work, but it is a lot of fun too.



Here are some first steps...trying some shapes and deciding the best...





the fabric panel....



...and finally the dolls





I can hardly wait to create some dino and robot soft toys for my son and other boys too, the time is never enough....



xo, Katarina