Creating the WickiDoodles universe

Didn't think it would happen

I am not a handicrafts person. That is what I have firmly believed my entire life. Well, at least from the sixth grade when my teacher – who I loved dearly – laughed very loudly at my sewing, She said something along the lines of "You call that a backstitch", ha-ha-ha. Extremely embarrassing: I couldn't even manage the simplest of stitches. 

Now, many decades later, I realized that she may in fact have been paying me a compliment, singling out my originality. Anyone can do a backstitch - not many people can make up something completely new. I like that revision of the story 😊

When I retired I wanted to do something creative, something with my hands, something with recycled materials. Over the years, I had tried knitting, nope; tried crocheting, nope; tried sewing my own clothes - definitely no. I've had various ideas, which I then dismissed one by one. In the mean time, I continued to collect material, piles of scraps of all kinds, thinking that some day, some how I would use it. Each time my husband was ready to discard an old shirt - which he did reluctantly and only when nearly in shreds - it got washed and ended up in my plastic bins. Any textile shared the same fate. Each one with a history. 

  

When the global pandemic hit in early 2020 and countries all over the world had to shut down, I said to myself that if I didn't do something with those scraps at a time when we all had to stay at home and there wasn't much else to do, then just forget about it. Throw it all away and reduce the clutter.

Giving myself that ultimatum worked: 12 months later I had produced several "creations", "dolls", stuffed somethings – I call them WickiDoodles.

Here's the group so far