A 6-inch Needle Felted Kili Doll

I finally made a Kili doll! Despite the fact that he's definitely one of the most popular characters, it seems like we had never gotten around to making a doll of that particular dwarf. I'm holding off on Kili and Fili in the large set of needle-felted dolls until last, because they have challenging faces --- and I want to make sure that we get the perfect materials for them.

So, when I got a request to make a 6" Kili doll a few weeks ago, Elizabeth and I were pretty excited! His outfit really lends itself to felting, so that was no problem and actually a lot of fun to make. His beard is definitely the challenging thing, but well worth the finished doll. Elizabeth's favorite part is the right-hand glove with three gloved fingers for archery.

These 6" dolls are fun to make. It can be challenging to get the details small enough for this size, but using Merino makes the clothes fine enough to add wrinkles, layers, etc. To see more photos of Kili and the others, CLICK HERE.

This makes the eighth different Hobbit character that I've made in the 6" size, and they really look fabulous. Here is a Photoshopped group of them (I've never actually had more than three of them in the house at one time.):

I've got another order for Oin the Dwarf in this size, so I hope to have it finished in a few weeks.
More later.