Two posts in one evening!
Another thing I plan to make with my newly acquired industrial skills are some dolls’ clothes. Littlepixie has many teddies and animals who are all sporting various crazy looking outfits I have made for them over the last few months. It is time consuming to sew little doll outfits, so most of them were just cut out and not hemmed, naughty me!
Along with all the teddies and lovely fabric dolls, LP also has two of the type of dolls we all hope our daughters won’t fall in love with, but somehow they do… A Sleeping Beauty doll which was a gift from my parents and a crazy looking falling-apart doll whom LP named “Giant Pretty” for some reason. Giant Pretty’s legs fell off and she now wears a 24-7 girdle made of sticky plasters and sellotape which not only keeps her legs on, but also allows her to sit and stand (see, my engineering degree wasn’t wasted after all), LP loves her and won’t part with her! Giant Pretty also spends a lot of her days in her nudies (well as nudie as one can be in a massive plaster-girdle), so I shall make her some new clothes (she is smaller than a Barbie doll so she only has one raggy dress that she arrived in).
Sleeping Beauty has a good few pieces of clothing as my mum gave LP a treasure trove of Barbie-sized clothes she made for us when we were young. They are excellent, all crazy polka-dot 80’s fabric and puffball sleeves!! LP loves them and it is amazing seeing her dressing her dolls in the outfits I can remember playing with so, so many years ago!
In my pre-industrial days (a few weeks ago) I made a beach outfit for Sleeping Beauty and then got bored of the tediousness of hand stitching hems on doll clothes, but now I shall make more, hurrah! I also made her a fleece cloak to cover her princess dress as LP was concerned that she would get cold while playing on the swings outside, such a thoughtful child! Here is her beach outfit, oops I notice that she is wearing her netting underskirt, that’s not part of the beach outfit!
And yes, I know, Barbie-esque dolls are just not really what I had envisioned for LP, but at least Sleeping Beauty and Giant Pretty will have clothes that don’t make them look like hookers, no thigh-high mini skirts for these ladies (thigh high mini skirts wouldn’t fit over Giant Pretty’s giant girdle anyway!).
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LOL about the Barbie-type doll! I swore (the other kind; see comment below) that my daughter would *never* have Barbie dolls, but she wanted one so much… Her big brother (then about 9) bought her one with some of his birthday money! (So sweet!) She loved dressing them up (I made clothes for them, too) and had a whole town of them eventually, with a Brownie pack, a ballet school, home educated children… Ahhhhh……
Cute beach outfit
Svara has a Barbie that a friend gave her for her 2nd birthday. I wasn’t expecting to have to even -think- about Barbies yet! But she loves it. She can’t dress and undress it by herself, yet, though, so that’s my job. So far I’ve only made a few simple knitted dresses for it. I had to laugh when you said that Giant Pretty is smaller than a Barbie doll. Here I was imagining a two foot doll. haha! I’d love to see that girdle!
You done a great job , cannot wait to see what you come up with next.
I really *need* to learn to sew