Twilight Crochet Dolls

I’m going to be honest. I am not a fan of the Twilight series. When I think of the perfect, ideal man, my heart shall always remain entirely with Pride and Prejudice’s Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. As an admitted bibliophile who grew up with monsters on the brain, as you can probably see with not only my dolls but in other artworks I’ve made / stories I’ve written, I like the writing styles of Umberto Eco and Jeffrey Eugenides, and am probably too old to be fully regaled with a four-book romantic story geared primarily for teens.

However, I do have a lot of friends who are stark raving mad, crazed to the point of wtfness huge fans of the series, and I have eventually learned to deal with their moments of squee-ness if I am to maintain the friendship, despite their sometimes inability to deal with my poor fanpire-related barbed quips at their expense. They are also the same lovably exasperating people who had first requested me to make Edward Cullen dolls in the first place, so you also have them to thank for the series of dolls shown below.

I have been making Edward Cullen and Jacob Black dolls for awhile now, and one out of every five customers who make the purchases inevitably asks me: “When are you ever going to make a Bella Swan doll?” While I could confess to a certain level of procrastination there, along with a truckload of other priority commissions and custom requests that took up most of my time for the better part of a year, one glaring reason it took me so long to make Bella was simply because she didn’t have particular features that could easily be showcased in a doll and therefore easily observed to be a “Bella”. Edward has his golden eyes and manly pomade. For the Jacob Black doll I settled for adding a tiny paw print on his lower back. But unless I stitchedthe word ‘Bella’ right across her shirt, I didn’t know how people could easily discern her to be a Bella doll. A few people suggested Bella in her prom dress, or of her wearing an engagement ring. But she only wears her prom dress for a couple of scenes all in all and would have no further basis in later books, nor is a ring easy to do in miniature. The requests for her doll increased; in my Ravelry account, my Bella doll was still a work in progress, without any pictures to show, but four users had it listed as their favorite, and the entr viewed over a hundred times without my ever promoting or showcasing the attempt in groups.

In the end, I decided to just make her without any “Bella” markings. I supposed that if Stephanie Meyer intended for her to look plain and normal and doe-eyed (and oddly enough, to also look a lot like Stephanie Meyer) then I supposed this would just reinforce the statement.

And so little Bella joins the cast of little deadcraft Twilight dolls. Apologies to everyone who waited for over a year for this! Here’s my small attempt at an apology.