Friday, February 12, 2021

and then I sewed more doll clothes

I had another round of "just make whatever doll clothes from these fabrics you want to use/use up," initially concentrating on the long pile minky that PhantasmCreations gave me, but that got a bit frustrating because there ended up being not quite enough of some to them to make the things I envisioned, so I moved on to other materials and items.  Some of those other things included the test iterations needed to get the pencil skirt pattern (in the previous post) ready to share.  And I had an urge to make some complete things from lace trim again, which prompted me to include a bit of yardage stretch lace that someone gave me a while ago.  And I also decided to use up what was left of the small(ish) scale gray camo twill that I bought in the form of clearance baby pants.  And some of the iridescent coated fabric salvaged from some drawstring bags that had originally been for sale at Target, didn't sell well at Target, got bought out by the local chain of salvage stores, didn't really sell well there, either, and got marked down further, whereupon I bought a few to use for doll clothes.

So.  Y'know.  Completely normal random stuff.

I won't post everything I made, but I will share highlights (not shown: the iridescent bomber jacket, gray camo jeans, and gray sweatshirt with galaxy print ribbing items made in Ken size for a local doll person)







Mostly made with my own sewing patterns/variations thereof.  The gathered print skirt used no pattern, and the bomber jackets used a pattern I generated in the late 1990s by scanning the pattern piece guide in a commercial pattern and enlarging that to doll size--oh, the stretch lace bodysuit that's mostly hidden under the fluffy jacket and cosmic skirt is a modification of a pattern created that way, too...hmm, and, y'know what?  So is the pattern used for the gray and faux fox fur jacket...and. with extreme on-the-fly variations, the leopard print jacket.  Huh.  I guess I use those patterns more than I realized.  It's probably because I've had all of those since the late 1990s that I take them for granted...

I did not sew the berets (although I probably really should try sometime, huh), the scarf used as an undershirt on the first doll, the shirt on the fuzzy sleeve camo jacket doll, or the hose on the doll with the lace shirt and gathered skirt (or the crocheted bag the first doll has, but it started as a sleeve on a second-hand crocheted doll item--missing the other sleeve--and I did stitch the bottom closed and crochet the 'strap' to make it into a purse, which is the extent of my crochet ability.)  Nor did I make the sewn black boots--someday, maybe, I'll make an effort to learn doll cordwainery, but not yet.  Still, I feel like it's a nice amount of sewing that turned out nicely, so I'm happy with that diversion back into doll sewing.

I have some videos to edit (one of which is...doll sewing...) and then I want to get back to sewing stuff for human size


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