Doctor Who Ragdolls: Fourth Doctor, Romana

Recently I received a commission for a repeat performance of doll that started it all, the original ragdoll Romana from City of Death that I made for lizbee for Christmas last year. (The same person commissioned another ragdoll Five---if you're reading, don't worry, he's almost done!) At the same time I got another commission, this time for a ragdoll of the fourth Doctor, and as I happened to finish them both at the same time, I thought, why not take advantage of the photo opportunities?

I may have gone a bit overboard.







The Doctor. Who is very tall and was thus very hard to photograph.







The thing about the scarf: making a "real" fourth Doctor scarf would have involved buying about five different colors of yarn, which would have jacked the price up like mad. So I got a single skein of variegated autumnal colors, and I hope it evokes the general look of the thing. Which is how it usually work in dollmaking. It's the proper length, though, twice the doll's height.



I confess I find the grin a little unnerving. But then, I always have.



I painstakingly recreated Tom Baker's afro as best I could with yarn.



His wee boots!

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And now for Romana:



The original Romana had button eyes and white cloth for her face. This Romana looks more like Lalla Ward than I think I'm strictly comfortable with.







Benefits of a year of dollmaking practice, I was able to make proper feet with semi-proper Mary Janes this time.

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And now for a bit of madness...









Taking these pictures, I felt a bit like I'd followed them inside a photobooth while they larked about.



What? Turnabout is fair play.

These guys have homes already, but I'm always willing to make more. Full sized ragdolls like these are $80.00 USD.



(In terms of my Make A Doll of Every Doctor project, now only got Three and Eight left to do. As it happens, I don't have any third Doctor episodes and I've never seen the Doctor Who movie. But I'll get there.)