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<a href="http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2009/04/kokeshi-dolls.html" target="_blank">Jenny collects Kokeshi dolls</a> - you know, the cute wooden Japanese dolls with helmet hair and no arms or legs. There's a collection in her kitchen, a teensy one dangling from her cellphone, and lately - doodles of them on her desk. Well, she decided to transform one of the sketches into a <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/80"><abbr title="Embroidery can be so, so many things. This is the alpha term for most of the decorative needlearts. ‘Embroidery’ just means any kind of decorative stitching, which can include an endless variety of styles. If you make decorative stitches on fabric, you’re embroidering. You can work in any media on any surface in a free-form manner, along a pattern, or simply by repeating a stitch along a hem or cuff, or edge of a tablecloth. There are endless combinations of stitches and possibilities. Sublime Stitching patterns are designed for embroidery but can be used as templates for other kinds of embroidery as well. Other types of embroidery make use of specific tools and materials, and then earn new and unique names. ">embroidery</abbr></a> pattern and share it with you for free! Yippee! You can download it below, or on <a href="http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2009/04/kokeshi-dolls.html">our flickr page</a>. After you stitch it up will you <i>pretty please</i> submit it to the <a href="/gallery" target="_blank">Customer Gallery</a>? They are going to be so sweet!
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Above are a few other <b>Kokeshi finds</b> on Etsy from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=24253325" target="_blank">Mirabel</a>, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24233559" target="_blank">Temple7e</a> (yes. that is a princess leia kokeshi) and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23070524&ref=sr_gallery_16&&ga_search_query=kokeshi&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=2&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title" target="_blank">Stephanie Fizer</a>.
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<a href="http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2009/04/kokeshi-dolls.html" target="_blank">Jenny collects Kokeshi dolls</a> - you know, the cute wooden Japanese dolls with helmet hair and no arms or legs. There's a collection in her kitchen, a teensy one dangling from her cellphone, and lately - doodles of them on her desk. Well, she decided to transform one of the sketches into a <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/80"><abbr title="Embroidery can be so, so many things. This is the alpha term for most of the decorative needlearts. ‘Embroidery’ just means any kind of decorative stitching, which can include an endless variety of styles. If you make decorative stitches on fabric, you’re embroidering. You can work in any media on any surface in a free-form manner, along a pattern, or simply by repeating a stitch along a hem or cuff, or edge of a tablecloth. There are endless combinations of stitches and possibilities. Sublime Stitching patterns are designed for embroidery but can be used as templates for other kinds of embroidery as well. Other types of embroidery make use of specific tools and materials, and then earn new and unique names. ">embroidery</abbr></a> pattern and share it with you for free! Yippee! You can download it below, or on <a href="http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2009/04/kokeshi-dolls.html">our flickr page</a>. After you stitch it up will you <i>pretty please</i> submit it to the <a href="/gallery" target="_blank">Customer Gallery</a>? They are going to be so sweet!
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Above are a few other <b>Kokeshi finds</b> on Etsy from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=24253325" target="_blank">Mirabel</a>, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24233559" target="_blank">Temple7e</a> (yes. that is a princess leia kokeshi) and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23070524&ref=sr_gallery_16&&ga_search_query=kokeshi&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=2&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title" target="_blank">Stephanie Fizer</a>.
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</p>
<p>
Above are a few other <b>Kokeshi finds</b> on Etsy from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=24253325" target="_blank">Mirabel</a>, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24233559" target="_blank">Temple7e</a> (yes. that is a princess leia kokeshi) and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23070524&ref=sr_gallery_16&&ga_search_query=kokeshi&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=2&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title" target="_blank">Stephanie Fizer</a>.
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