Dijanne Cevaals work

Hell Fire by Dijanne Cevaal
This is one of the pieces that I have of Dijannes.I have long been an admirer of her work. She is a lovely person and good friend. Right now she is doing workshops in the netherlands and has been to spain and jerusalem with quilts from australia where she lives . I do have another piece of her work but I will save that for another day. I had first seen Dijannes work at the Quilt show in Houston but did not know of her then ... just that her work is very striking. I then moved here to cambridge, england and went to the quilt show at Chilford Hall and had emailed this lady on the yahoo group that I belong to to say if you needed a place to stay just let me know ... well I went to the show looked at this ladies portfolio at chilford and there it was the piece I had seen in houston and this was the lady who did it WOW ! and this was the lady I had offered a bed to .... this was back in 2002. We have had Dijanne come back on quite a few occasions since and she has kindly shared some of her secrets with me. If you haven't seen her work, I encourage you to have a look at her blog and website.

Ethnic Doll Challenge

I have a challenge with 3 others in Canada, two of them my sisters and the other is a long time family friend who is just like a sister. Suzanne, Dianne and Tonniece are the ones doing this challenge with me. I thought ohh I have a good idea lets do things as a challenge to push each other to create. ME AND MY BIG IDEAS! I first had a bit of a hard time to think ohh what is an ethnic doll ... searched the web had tons of ideas but could not settle on one of them. I started one doll japanese ... umm canned that one half way through.

I finally decided to go an african type doll but did not get the skin tone right... ahh well continue on I thought ... I was going to try putting coffee on her to get the colouring .. but did not want to chance the face as I had already drawn it on. Now that I have it done I might try it just to see what happens ...

I recieved the fabric from a friend who was living in south africa so its authentic fabric. Drew on the face .. ok cheated and put pins for earrings ... which I used to do to my barbie doll so she would have pearl earrings . She also has pheasant feathers in her turban type hat, which was cheesecloth that I hand dyed, a bead necklace and the african fabric.

I would say I am not a doll maker and really did not enjoy this one soooo ... onwards and upwards to the next challenge please.

Ethnic Doll Challenge