Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Though I am an amateur when it comes to photography, I was inspired by Kat's photos and decided to try to take a few. This is my Lizzie doll, my twin did the face painting and I made the ratty diamond print "Bedford cord" dress. Please don't judge it too harshly, I haven't been sewing much in years; I'm a bit rusty I'd say. Anyhoo, here are the pics:

Real good job Susan. It looks just like Lizzie. The top one looks a lot like Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie. What, no hatchet?

-1bigsteve (o:

That is so cool, Susan! You could do an animated film with your new character! So inventive!

Susan, it's great! All these years, I've never seen a doll of Lizzie in The Dress - and you did it! (And your sewing looks wonderful.)

Wow - you and your twin got the face down better than probably any others I've seen. The hair looks like it's really Lizzie's, and it looks like her jaw is hefty. You have the hair color and it looks like texture down pat! Nobody ever usually does that!

She looks different in every picture! Her eyes especially different between photo 1 and 2. And because you can move her head, her hair and ears look different between pictures. It's such fun seeing her in the different poses.

I can't get over the thrill of seeing a doll in that dress! A best seller, Susan! Thanks for the thrill! I just love it!

Very nice, Susan! Lizzie would be proud.

Take that, Barbie!

Thanks gang. Little Lizzie was definitely a labor of love. Her hair is hand rooted mohair that was then coated with glue and styled into place, not easy. The doll head used for Lizzie was actually a male doll head to get that jaw fullness. The female heads are usually too dainty and the mouths way too small.

My twin and I had an idea for an addition to The Hatchet, sort of a comic using the Lizzie doll and her still in progress sister, Emma. If there would be any sort of interest? Heres a couple more pics, a close-up of Lizzie's hair and a full shot to see all of the "Bedford cord" dress. I believe scale-wise that there is less material in little Lizzie's skirt than the 4 or 5 yards that are supposed to be in the real Bedford cord skirt. It looks really full, but, material doesn't drape the same at the 1/6th scale. You can see the narrow ruffle at the bottom and oops, a peek at Lizzie's petticoat.

It really is a busy dress pattern, I would think because of that it would be a very noticeable dress. But, it is also a very plain dress, nothing really noteable about it, nothing special. Not like Lizzie's pink and white wrapper with its loud red ribbon belt.

Your doll making secrets are fascinating, Susan. Will you be making the striped wrapper for her?

A boy doll! Genius! Maybe that's where the other Lizzie doll makers went wrong. She had to have that Lizzie jaw.

I can't wait to see Emma - if you do post her.

YES - a thousand times YES - I hope you try to do a comic/photo strip with the doll (s). It could be fabulous!

Thanks, Sherry. Emma was painted using the same type of male doll head as Lizzie, though something didn't quite look right about her face and we decided a re-do on her. And now that the new Emma photo has surfaced, it gives us another look to use as reference.

Yes, eventually I would like to make the pink and white stripe wrapper, if I can find a suitable pink and white stripe material that looks appropriate in scale. But, I don't think I will add the diamond pattern shapes on the white stripes in navy according to the description. Oh, and I would also love to make her trial dress, the black silk and lace one. I still have to make or get little Lizzie some shoes, poor thing is still in her stockinged feet. And I need to figure out some stuff for poor ol' Emma to wear. What color do you think she favored? I picture brown, perhaps a pale pink though nothing flashy.

That section of badly "wallpapered" wall seen in the photos is actually a portion of the Borden sitting room. It is the wall where Andrew's sofa would sit against. The paper needs to be scraped off and redone, I've read its recommended to use real wallpaper paste to adhere the paper; even if it is doll sized. We used Elmer's glue instead and came out with lumpy results.