Miele, Our Queen Bee. Natural Fiber Art Doll Ready To Play
I started working on Miele way back in the day, when the bees were buzzing all around me, the roses were in full bloom and the nights spoke of deep hopes and dreams.
Those nights and those bees infused my dreams and Miele was born.
Now Fall has arrived. The air is charged, the wind blows, the leaves wake up soaked.
And Miele is ready to carry on with her life’s journey: to be of service.
How you may ask? How can a little doll be of service?
Miele is a natural fiber art doll, wearing her knitted crown. Her hair is made of camel weft, green eyes embroidered and a beautiful face full of freckles.
Miele is a natural fiber art doll, wearing her knitted crown. Her hair is made of camel weft, green eyes embroidered and a beautiful face full of freckles.
The answer is simple. By letting you play with her.
By bringing you memories, of summers gone, of sitting atop a tree branch, while your legs dangled towards the far-off ground and you daydreamed of your very own future, trying to balance your body and wishes at the same time.
Miele is a 16” art doll, with long camel hair, freckles, and weighted with glass beads.
Miele, a Petite Fig style doll, stuffed and sculpted in wool, weighted with glass beads.
Childhood memories are so indelible. Most of them, the really good ones, pertain to strong emotions, solitude, awe.
Ah! to be young once more! When your knees seemed larger than your head, when a scrape was enough to make you write a Shakespeare-like lament or akin or doing chores felt like The Odyssey by Homer.
Miss Miele is just at that right spot.
Where you can spend hours in one minute. When hours pass you by admiring the to and fro of an ant in the grass or the shapes of traveling clouds.
She is forever set in that period. By her lucky stars and the magic of a needle.
Miele, a 16” tall natural fiber art doll, going for an autumn walk in the woods.
Miele, a 16” tall natural fiber art doll wearing her hand knit cardigan.
The doll clothing of Miele: brown overalls with pockets trimmed in piping, hexagon patches, ribbed cuffs and leather straps.
Miele is extremely good at coming with clever names and as of late she has taken to naming everything she comes upon.
The spoons are now called “shallow bowls” and instead of requesting honey on her herbal tea, she asks for “bee juice”.
Miele, a 16” tall natural fiber art doll.
Miele, a 16” tall natural fiber art doll.
Speaking of bees, Miele is quite obsessed with them. It all started when I made a crown for her, my little princess, and we all started calling her Queen Bee.
“His labor is a chant
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee’s experience
Of clovers and of noon!”
Then she started asking to learn anything and everything to do with bees.
How to take care of them, how many kinds are there? Who feeds them and where do they sleep?
Many times we watched the sunflowers become intermittent makeshift hotels, loaded with dozing bees, taking naps throughout the day.
We managed to pet some, and were marvelled how they didn’t even move. So fuzzy! We felt so lucky.
Miele, a 16” tall natural fiber art doll.
As you already know, and if not she will tell you, bees are considered guardians of the natural world and we humans link them to magic and love.
Miele adores them and that might very well have to do with her sweet tooth. “More here please” seems to be her favourite phrase, while she points with her chubby fingers for the desired (very large) area to be covered in sticky honey.
Miele is hoping to find another yellow-worshipper, a fellow bee guardian, a sympathetic honey addict, such like herself. Birds of a feather and all that.
Miele, a 16” tall natural fiber art doll.
Miele promised me she will be good and won’t climb the trees too high up, she will also try not to hide from you when you are doing the shopping together or scare you when you come in the dark house from the sunlit patio, carrying a heavy basket full of laundry…! Don’t ask and I won’t tell.
She will come bearing magical gifts:
A sunkissed face full of multicoloured freckles, to remind you to sun gaze and work outside.
Long hair so you take time to relax out of your busy day and braid it, while she patiently sits on your lap.
Soft shoes, to entice you to thread gently.
Warm green eyes, to remind you that you too are a child in a big grown-up body.
Never forget that!
Miele is 16” tall, sculpted and stuffed firmly in wool, weighted with glass beads. Her head rotates. Hair is made of very long camel weft and mohair yarn, her eyes embroidered, freckles painted and she is blushed with red beeswax.
She comes wearing jersey underpants, overalls with pockets trimmed in home made piping, with leather straps and hexagon patches. She also wears a cotton pointelle shirt with short puffed sleeves and sport collar. Her shoes are made of repurposed knits and have chamois leather straps with tiny buckles.
She has two knitted accessories, her royal crown and her honey butter toast cardigan with a wooden button.
She is an art doll, suitable for humans 12+.
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- - - MIELE HAS NOW FOUND A LOVING HOME. THANK YOU!
Miele, a 16” tall natural fiber art doll.
Miele has been utter joy to have in the doll studio. She is sweet, patient and gentle. She has a very open and warm energy and if you love bees, love honey and love yellow, she might be just right for you.
Thank you for kindly spending your time reading about her and for considering taking her home. Doll making is my passion and I hope it shows.
See you soon!
Miele, a 16” tall natural fiber art doll.
