When I was planning to make the loud hoodie and the dissonant cardigan, I showed pictures of the fabric to a friend, who agreed that both of the prints were fantastic. So! I decided to see if I could get what I had left of both of them (well, what was left of the apple print from the first order) into a single ridiculous sweatshirt for this friend.
Task achieved.
Gonna start right off with saying I'm not super thrilled with this, but that's fine.
I used Simplicity 8951 to make another cardigan
I should have gone up a size, and I should have used contrast ribbing for the bands. It's fine.
Everything else about it is great!
Since my attempt to make the plain gray zip front hoodie more appealing didn't go over well (which is fine--in retrospect, I really don't know what I was thinking in making something for The Child in gray), I have been keeping an eye out for a more suitable fabric, to make another zip front hoodie that isn't so short, which is the problem with the one currently being chosen.
Nothing turned up in the last trip to the craft thrift store, and Walmart seems to have stopped carrying mill end precuts, but I planned to keep checking both places sporadically anyway, just in case.
Then I looked at Fabric Mart, and, oh, did they have some amazingly obnoxious print knits. Cotton blend (I know that a pure cotton loud print medium weight knit is asking a lot from random find bargain fabric searches), and on deep discount, in the ever-changing reduction way of Fabric Mart.
I asked The Child's opinion, and got a snicker in return, which I took as approval, so I ordered it (along with...other deep discount obnoxious fabrics. I have plans for everything.)
I didn't want to use New Look 6766 again, because I wasn't in the mood for raglan sleeves, so I turned to McCall's 7668 for the first time. As given, M7668 has a rather Pokémon Trainer Style
I borrowed New Look 6766's cuffs and waistband and here we are
The first one isn't intended for dolls, though--it's a bit of a gag gift for someone who mentioned how much they like corduroy, but just don't find it much when shopping for clothes these days
And the second happened after I was searching for buttons for the first, rediscovered my stash of small novelty buttons, and remembered how I have been saving them for years to put on doll clothes like pins. Well. I decided now was a good a time as any to do that. I briefly considered making something for larger dolls, so the 'pins' would seem more properly scaled, but quickly went to the idea of making it (more or less) Barbie-size, because that's my default and would be more likely to get a lot of use. The bad scale adds to the humor, right?
The pattern for this one came from my late 1990s experiments with scanning the pattern piece guides in pattern instructions and enlarging them to doll size. Me Today is a bit irritated that Me Then didn't think it was important to note what pattern it was.
While working on the second, I got the idea that I should make a 'proper' denim jacket for dolls, too.
Just...some other time.
...if not more...
I sewed some doll jeans, and I know it took right around an hour start to finish because I made a video of the process, and then I procrastinated editing the video for a while
I sewed a shirt to go with the jeans, and, again, the shirt went together fast, but the video did not
And then I customized the doll who the shirt and pants were made for. I took photos of the finished project three weeks ago. I only just finished editing the video yesterday.
Here's a picture, so you don't have to watch the videos if you don't want to!
I needed another zip bag to sort/store doll clothes, and decided to work on rerooting a doll who had been in the To Do Box for a very long time
I ended up making an extra, smaller bag just because, and the reroot had taken so long to get to that I had learned enough to realize the hair I'd originally chosen was polypropylene--since one of polypropylene's inherent properties is "disintegrates after UV exposure," it's a fiber that I now personally want to avoid on dolls, soooooo had to choose something else. I ended up adding a weird random nylon fading rainbow gradient under the head's original black hair. It's weird.
(I include doll reroots on this blog because I use an anchor thread method, so the hair is more or less sewn in. With the understanding of how much I dislike hand sewing, you may also realize this is why I don't do reroots very often.)
