Another Motorcycle Jacket...but not...

Although I do have plans for more human-size sewing, honestly?  Right now I've sewn a lot of what I wanted to sew for wearing this summer (pull-over dresses.  several of them.)

And while I don't think I'm going to make posts here about all of the doll clothes I'm making, I will make posts for the more involved items, like the overalls in the last post that were made using (mostly) a pattern intended for human size.

This time, the pattern is from one of the Japanese doll publications with scans currently available on The Internet Archive: Doll Coordinate Recipe Volume 5.  On page 18 is a Momoko doll wearing a motorcycle jacket, and.  Well.  You know me and motorcycle jackets.

The pattern is on page 66, at half scale.  I set the PDF at 100%, screen capped it, and took it into a graphics program where I doubled the size, then split it into two to print because it was too big to fit on a single page.  The seam allowances at this size were ¼"/6mm, so I figured everything was scaled properly.  Nope!  The finished jacket ended up significantly bigger than something meant for Momoko, which was actually fine, because I was making it for a Barbie.

 

Yeah no I wasn't going to make it from pleather, who do you think I am?

Have I mentioned...doll sewing?

I started cutting doll clothes from random fabrics--most of them were pieces of cloth that I didn't have much left, and some were things I was inspired to use while rummaging around for the pieces to use up.

There ended up being...several things made.

Another Doll Kimono to Wear to the State Fair

 I was planning to make one big post of doll sewing I've done in the last few weeks, but some of it is for dolls in a video I'm still editing, so I thought I'd go ahead and share this one: another kimono made with the pattern and instructions in Dolly*Dolly vol 24

The kimono fabric is left over from the fruit shirt I had issues with (and fixed!) last year.  The obi is the last bits of a fabric I bought and used a lot when I sold doll clothes on Etsy, and it always made me think of highly stylized pies, so it seemed appropriate to use with the fruit print.

I have seen scans of another Japanese doll sewing publication that has the obijime and other obi decorations sewn directly to the piece, so I tried that this time.  I forgot to compensate for the back overlap, and the obijime knot ended up off center.  I'm still learning. (I also very belatedly realized that all of the obijime I've put on the doll kimono I've made using Dolly*Dolly vol 24...have been purple.)

I have another doll kimono cut out, but haven't felt like sewing it yet--my friend has invited me to go to the craft re-use thrift store this weekend, so I'm back in that mode where I just want to find things to donate (which is considerably more challenging now, after destashing so very much to the craft re-use thrift store last year.)

Corny Kimono

Another doll kimono, following the patterns and directions in Dolly*Dolly vol 24, available on The Internet Archive.  This time, I went a little less serious, while also figuring out things I misunderstood (or just plain missed) the first time.

I have wanted to mix this corn print with this yellow print for years.

I don't think I ever would have added pink and purple contrasts if I had mixed these prints in my usual kinds of doll clothes, and I am so happy that I did add those color contrasts to this.

And it's doll sewing again

 But! This time, it is not using my own pattern!

The Internet Archive has some issues of the Japanese doll sewing magazines Dollybird and Dolly*Dolly.  I cross referenced the sizes listed for the magazines on Mandarake (a Japanese second-hand pop culture store) and used that to scale the scans for printing--specifically, the kimono and associated accessories for 27cm dolls, from Dolly*Dolly vol 24.

While I do have some of the 27cm dolls the pattern is intended for, I wanted to make this one for a Silkstone Barbie, so I added some length to the bottom edge.  How much length?  C'mon, it's me, you know I didn't measure it.  It was enough.

The hardest part was trying to decipher some of the direction images in the low resolution scan--I'm sure that would have been easier if I could comprehend written Japanese beyond recognizing a few nouns.