Do you ever feel like a Voodoo Doll? If you have fibromyalgia, Lupus, or any other pain filled chronic illness you might understand what I mean. Pain that comes out of nowhere in places where you least expect it at times can make you feel like some evil person is out there poking pins into a little voodoo doll with your name on it.
Voodoo dolls can also be used for healing and good. You can use a voodoo doll to repel bad energy, invoke happiness and pain relief and try to heal whatever ailment that you might suffer from.
I suffer from Fibromyalgia among other illnesses and I live in a lot of pain. My best friend from high school, Julia, read about my burning skin on my facebook page and offered to try to help me and treat me like a guinea pig with Young Living Essential Oils. You can read all about it here. She is so thoughtful, sweet, caring and she really helped my skin so I wanted to crochet her a special gift. She said any Alex original would do so I started thinking. Julia suffers from pain too, she has fibromyalgia and after I made my best friend from 2nd grade a voodoo doll for her birthday, (click here for the Voodoo Doll blog) I knew I wanted to create a Fibro Voodoo Doll for Julia.
Sean and I had a wonderful date night of going to the yarn store, walking around downtown, and stopping for tacos at one of the best Mexican restaurants around. I love picking out yarn and I had a lot of fun picking out the yarn for the fibro voodoo doll.
I started out with a sketch. I don’t always work this way but lately I am finding it is easier for me to design something by drawing it out first.
Julia helped me pick out which buttons would be the eyes. I love that she picked a flower button!
Then I got started on The Fibro Voodoo Doll!
The hair was a lot of fun. I used a twisted cord technique. For a picture tutorial by me click here.
Ta da!!! The Fibro Voodoo Doll!!!
Click here for the free pattern or click here to purchase the pdf. Don’t forget to add me as a friend and I’ll definitely friend you back!
Soft hugs!!! <3
Formerly known as Crocheting Thru Chronic Diseases With Alex
