Sasha Doll Style

I was even more smitten by her when she arrived and I held her in person.

This doll is now called Lisa. She has lovely deep blue pinpoint pupil eyes. She has obviously been loved and has a few grazes on her face. These give her character.

Lisa is wearing an outfit from my new Evergreen Collection which is nearing completion.

I thought it would be interesting to show the doll who has been the inspiration for having some of my lovelier waifs given the opportunity of becoming beautiful rerooted girls.

This doll is the epitome of sheer elegance.

I just adore the texture of her hair. It brushes beautifully. Then if I give her a little shake, it has a great tousled look.

This lovely girl was once a blonde gregor from the early 70's. He had a nasty hair cut when he arrived with me and spent a long time wearing various different wigs. Such beautiful big grey blue eyes.

I had often thought that this doll deserved to have a new head of hair as she was so pretty. Then after the arrival of my lovely rerooted side part girl, I decided to take the plunge and she went to Lisa for a makeover.

Her hair is stunning. But not too much of it. I sometimes feel that some of my 80's trendon dolls have a little too much hair and curl. Having said that, this look is exactly what my two nieces love about their Sasha dolls.

This dolls hair reminds me more of the lovely hair on the Gotz Sasha dolls from the 90's.

She is wearing an outfit that I made a while ago, but had never finished. Inspired by the arrival of my beautiful girl, I knit her had and scarf while relaxing infront of the tv. The outfit is knit using a lovely fluffy sock yarn and two strongly contrasting colours of 4 ply wool. Her shoes are the dark red dollfie shoes that look a bit like the Clark's startrite shoes that my sister and I used to wear when we were children.

I am having a beautiful blue puddle eyed doll rerooted by Lisa Hartley at the moment. When I first sent her off I "knew" that I wanted her to have a single row fine fringe. Then Lisa sent me a photograph of her at the point now that I need to decide if she should have a fringe or be left without one. I thought it would be an easy decision but it is not. I love the single row fringes on the early dolls. But this doll also looks beautiful at this point without any fringe. It is such a difficult decision. Hasn't Lisa done the most amazing job. She is so very tallented. The doll in question was originally a lovely early 70's gregor who arrived with a nasty haircut and has been part of my "waif" collection for a number of years.

Photo taken by Lisa Hartley http://www.sashahospital.org.uk