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Christmas Card & Candy Cane Shaped Dotee

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Swap Coordinator:choke (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Fabric  Dolls 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:November 16, 2008
Date items must be sent by:December 9, 2008
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

This swap is open to divas from all countries!

You will make and send one candy cane shaped dotee plus one christmas card to one partner.

Dotee Requirements:

  • Send one dotee doll that YOU made.

  • The body of your dotee must be between 3"-6".

  • She/He must have a face.

  • She/He must have a hanger and a tail.

  • She/He must be in the shape of a candy cane. This does NOT mean she needs to be striped like one!

  • You do NOT need to be a dotee pro to join, in fact the host of this swap has only ever made one herself :P Feel free to join if this is your first dotee!

Christmas Card Requirements:

  • Send one christmas card (either handmade or store bought). No blank cards, this should be addressed and filled out for your partner.

Rating requirements:

  • You must be rated on at least 10 real mail swaps (postcard and e-swaps do not count towards the 10).

  • You must not have no-sends, that means NONE!

  • You must have a rating of 4.8 or higher!

Any unfair ratings will not be held against you IF you pm @choke BEFORE signing up!

Any comments/suggestions/questions please post here or pm @choke Thanks and have fun!!

Discussion

Cakers 11/ 7/2008 #

This will be my first dotee. I have one question. I see on other swaps that sometimes people use felt for the face and sometimes they don't. Does it really matter? I'm cool either way I just want to be sure I do it correctly. Thanks!

AwtemNymf 11/ 9/2008 #

midwestknitgirl- Hi! There's no real set rule as to what the face has to be made of... you can use a felt face, it can be clay, fabric, muslin. Most people use a quarter as a circle template for the face. I just cut the circle free hand. The face can be hand-sewn on using DMC floss or sewing thread, fabric ink, even beaded will work. It's up to the creator! If you need inspiration or ideas- use Flickr! Good Luck! Be prepared to be hooked winks

choke 11/10/2008 #

Thanks @AwtemNymf for answering @midwestknitgirl :D

Cakers 11/10/2008 #

Thank you AwtemNymf - I appreciate the info. I did check flickr and oh my goodness, there are so many talented people. Yowza. I did make one already but I may redo it, it just doesn't seem like it has enough embellishment. What the heck, it will be good practice, right?

SEMOkraftee 11/16/2008 #

I really, really, really DON'T want to join any more swaps before Christmas. But how can I resist a candy cane shaped Dotee?!?!? Colleen, I'm really put out with you for posting this swap. ;-p Gaye

choke 11/16/2008 #

giggles @ SEMOkraftee...hehehe! :P

@midwestknitgirl - I hear ya for sure! I've only made two myself, and while the first one came out very nicely, the second one was just eh... But through it all I got a lot of practice and learned a lot from my mistakes!

Cakers 11/18/2008 #

I have to admit I gave away the first one I made already (I still didn't like it and didn't know what to do with it but a co-worker GUSHED over it, go figure) so I'm working on my second one. Sure to be much better than the first. :-)

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