Currently it has the tall Barbie yukata pattern. I'm hard at work on the petite version!
See you then.
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I have a shop! Currently it has the tall Barbie yukata pattern. I'm hard at work on the petite version! See you then.
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So all that #thedollevolves stuff was pretty exciting, and I've got my hands on a tall Barbie! She's called "Terrific Teal" and she has the most incredible orange curls. Petite Barbie ("Blue Brocade") is in the mail, and the curvy Barbie I want ("Spring Into Style") is still "coming soon". I also tentatively have my eye on the original-Barbie-shape "B-Fabulous". Tall Barbie doesn't have much clothing. Naturally, I was compelled to make some for her. First is a casual yukata, because it's nice and simple and made out of straight seams and doesn't have gathering or darts. I'm writing up the yukata pattern to sell on Etsy. Does anyone want a copy to test out for me? I also have grand plans to create Barbie-scale fabrics with suitable yukata- and kimono-style patterns to sell on Spoonflower. Previews of a couple of designs, as well as photos of Barbie's new yukata, are under the cut!
This is a (wedding?) dress for Moxie Teenz Arizona. It's basically four rectangles of fabric--silver body, silver ruffle on the bottom, lace overdress, and a silver binding to hem the lace. The silver is some sort of shiny polyester lining fabric--I think it's the scraps left over from a cloak lining. (The binding really should have been on the bias--maybe it all should have been on the bias, but I didn't have much silver fabric to work with.) The dress stays on due to a piece of elastic at the top--unfortunately, the gathering there creates an unattractive stiff pouf, so I'll need to replace the elastic with darts or some-such. I don't know what the ribbon scarf's doing. It's not attached to the dress or anything. Maybe Arizona was cold. After the dress is finished, I figure I'll measure all the parts and make it into a proper pattern to post up here. Below: the fixed ~1780's skirt and half-finished blouse. Here's the second attempt at a pattern from Dolly Bureau. It's a sweater, heavily modified from a pattern for Integrity Toys' Misaki. Here's the official Dolly Bureau version. I traced the pattern without seam allowance, taped it on her body, and marked where it was too big around the waist. I cut those bits off, then cut the pieces from the sweater fabric (actually my friend's old gloves). You may have noticed the problem with the preceding steps. I forgot to add the seam allowance back in. And there wasn't enough glove to cut out another set of pattern pieces, so I was stuck with them. I "solved" this by running white glue around all edges (in lieu of Fray Check), then sewing everything together with minimal seam allowances. Fortunately, the sweater was going to be oversized, and the knit fabric is stretchy, so it still fits Eun-jae all right. Needless to say, any problems with this pattern are entirely my fault. I'm sure the original Dolly Bureau pattern was fine. This skirt was supposed to be the lower half of a dress vaguely based on #22 (~1780's) in The Doll Book by Estelle Ansley Worrell. The skirt is made of a pale grayish cotton, with lace from who-knows-where as a ruffle on the hem and an embroidery thread drawstring. What I didn't account for was that the drawstring makes the waist much bulkier, so it's difficult to make a fitted blouse that will go over the waist and stay there. I should have made a waistband instead, and maybe darted the skirt so that there would be less fabric around the waist. I've made the blouse, except for the waistline hem, but it seems to be incompatible with the skirt. Perhaps I'll piece together a better skirt--I do have a bit of this fabric left. Alternatively, I could remove the drawstring, add some darts, and sew on a waistband to this skirt. The last time I tried a skirt with a waistband, I didn't account for fabric bulk, and it ended up more as an apron. Finally got around to trying out the Dolly Bureau patterns. This is a dress sized for Momoko (who is a very similar size to Pullip). This dress came out a bit different from what I was expecting. You can see the "official" version here, on the blog of the author of Dolly Bureau, Megann Zabel. That dress is far shorter--it only reaches halfway between Momoko's hips and knees. The strange thing is... I didn't lengthen the pattern when making this dress. (And that much difference in length can't be due to accidental variations in seam allowance.) I followed the instructions exactly. It looks like the pattern was made after the original dress... and then not tested sufficiently! There's no mention of the pattern differing from the photos in the book or the blog. I think the shorter dress looks better. Eun-jae is so long and thin already, and the longer dress only emphasizes that. I'll make a note on my book to cut an inch or so off the hem if I make it again. Figuring Eun-jae needed some pants, but not wanting to deal with things like buttons and waistbands, I made some Pullip-sized "nifty wrap pants" for her using Craftgrrl's human-sized tutorial. They're of a soft thin cotton fabric, with embroidery thread to tie around the waist. The fabric is teal, but looks more blue in the photos. I'm using a webcam for the photos in this post rather than my phone, so the pictures in general will be uglier. Below the cut is an explanation of how to put the wrap pants on, and the pattern so you can make your own. (The shirt in these pictures is the undershirt from Eun-jae's very first post.) I have many types of doll and am willing to sew for all, not just Eun-jae the Pullip. My Moxie Teenz, in particular, need clothes -- Arizona and Gavin mostly hang about half-naked at the moment.
So which dolls are you interested in? I can make more-detailed posts about my sewing process, if that would interest you. Comment if there's some other type of doll you'd prefer. Click "Read More" to view the poll and vote. |
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