This muneca (doll) propped up on the couch is the second of a group I have acquired from a creative knitter, textile artist, who sells her creations on a couple of the regular street markets in Montevideo.  And, I think she has done a lovely job producing the unmistakeable Charlie Chaplin. That’s his bendy walking cane he’s holding in his hands.

When I asked, she told me she works out the patterns herself, and that each one this size, about 45cm, takes at least a whole day to make, often more  depending on the detail.  Some of her designs require specific colours and patterns in their clothing which makes them more finnicky.  Some parts are machine knitted and other parts, the smaller segments of the design, are hand knitted. The facial features of course, are stitched by hand.

I have one more, so far, to show you in a few days’ time, and I have decided that they would be a fun wall display in the downstairs loo aka here as ‘social bathroom / bano social.