Medicine Maker Doll

Project info
Name: Medicine Maker Doll
Pattern: Afro Puffs Ballerina Doll by [Yolonda Jordan] Don't Get it Twisted Crochet
Hook: 3.75 mm (F)
Yarn: Lion Brand Vanna's Choice Solids, Heathers & Twists
Colorway: 124 Toffee

Notes

9/24/2018

I started this doll at the Medicine Maker’s Brunch, by Sandra Pacheco, Curanderas Sin Fronteras, and a lot of other WOC and QOC. That is, I showed up with a skein of yarn and left with a head, two arms, and one leg.
It was Autumn Equinox, the Full Moon, and folks were making scullcap tincture and elderberry cordial.
I didn’t actually engage in the medicine making but we all agreed that this doll contributed to the atmosphere and also absorbed it.
Okay, the first time I tried this project it seemed SO HARD to get the legs to join to the torso correctly. I mean, I literally wrote to the designer and asked her for help! (and she calmly told me to chill) Today it was easy peasy!!

[later]

Oh, NOW I remember what the problem was! The alignment of the body decreases. Yolonda told me to just move them to sides of the hips if that was easier for me, and it SO IS!
Note: since I don’t use a dowel for support, it’s best to sew up the crotch before doing the hip increases and stuffing the lower body.

10-20-2018

This doll was mostly finished a month ago, but then things got busy at work and then things got busy with familia, and I haven’t had a weekend free. Today I took yarn to the abuelita medicine workshops at Galería de la Raza. I made clothes and hair for the Mina doll I’d made, and then, when i just couldn’t “people” any more, I sat in the car and started the neck decreases for this medicine maker doll. They’d gone into the workshop with me, in my bag, but, although there’s less work to be done on this doll, it requires more peace and quiet than I could find at the galeria.