We live in a throwaway society nowadays... I don't even know if people make their children soft toys any more. I hope they do. I would have very much appreciated a Humpty like this, being an avid watcher of Playschool! (And look at that groovy fabric!)
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Nostalgia
Well now that my dissertation has now been dissertated, I can move joyously onto my MA project - the grand finale. I definitely want to have some sort of three-dimensional aspect to it and gearing up to that has meant looking through all my books about puppets and dolls. My friend gave me some old toymaking books a while back. This is a page from a 1970s volume which made me feel very nostalgic.
We live in a throwaway society nowadays... I don't even know if people make their children soft toys any more. I hope they do. I would have very much appreciated a Humpty like this, being an avid watcher of Playschool! (And look at that groovy fabric!)
We live in a throwaway society nowadays... I don't even know if people make their children soft toys any more. I hope they do. I would have very much appreciated a Humpty like this, being an avid watcher of Playschool! (And look at that groovy fabric!)
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Brilliant photo! I love making toys for my two children and I'm slowly building a collection of Jean Greenhowe books for inspiration. I got so fed up with throwaway plastic toys that are too easily broken and the slapper type clothes that seem to be the only ones available for my four year old daughter's much loved eleven and a half inch fashion dolls that I've been trying to make my own toys for them. So far it seems to be going down well and I think they like the fact that they can have some input into the toy and it then means more to them.
Well that's restored my faith in the toy world, thank you Sue! (Hope you will be posting pics of your hand made toys!) xx
In fact I see from your blog that you have already made some beautiful ones! xx
Thank you Liza, but they're amateurish at best, but I am hoping the more practice I get the better they'll be - well that's the theory anyway!
I am knitting a teddy at the moment ... albeit only when I am having a break from the dreaded dissertation
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