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Do you know Dee? She makes beautiful textile dolls by hand. A while back she invited me, along with some other crafters, to submit a design for her Winter Collab doll project. And this week she showed me the photos of the finished works. This beautiful girl was made by Dee using my design. The 'woven' panels in red and white were hand-embroidered by her. The detail and craftswomanship she put into this (miniature poi, even!) and the other dolls is really amazing. 

Shortly before I drew up the idea, I had been to see Keira perform with her kapa haka group which was a rather proud moment. I've also never seen a handmade Maori doll, but wished I could have bought one for the kids when they were small. You can see more photos of my design and all the other beautiful dolls here.

Dee is auctioning these collaboration dolls as an online event from Friday August 9th at 12pm (NZST), to Sunday August 11th, 12pm (NZST).

I've got my eye on a couple of these beauties so will have my clicking finger at the ready.