Hello, loyal readers! I just finished up my first year of nursing school! Now that I am on summer break, I have already begun sewing new outfits for my, and my daughters', dolls. Soon I will post some American Girl doll fashions, then one for my BJDs. I have a long wish list of clothes I would like to make, we'll see how far I get this summer. Stay tuned, I promise pictures soon. :)

Play Day for Ruby

It's been a busy summer! I am way overdue sharing a dress I made months ago. I used the Play Day pattern from gracefaerie. This is the dress from the pattern. I hope to find the perfect fabric for the pinafore, but as of today, I haven't found it.

I've hesitated from sharing pictures of this dress because I wasn't sure I had a proper model for it. It is meant for an immature doll; most of my BJDs were too busty for this. My vinyl BJD, Secret from Goodreau, seems to wear it fairly well since she's a bit smaller than most resin MSD BJDs.

Let me know what you think!

Baby Doll!

Prudence Moody, my newest model, arrived this month. She's the Essential Prudence, Too Wigged Out from Wilde Imagination. She's as much fun to sew for as I heard she was (and judging by the number of patterns available for her, a dream to design for!). This outfit is from a Fletcher Pattern Company pattern called Baby Doll. For my first try at this pattern, I used a fat quarter for the top and broadcloth for the pants.

My model's wig is a J-Rock style from Monique's Gold line. Her shoes are from Tonner's Antoinette line.

More skirts!

I was busy during the month of May, sewing a few things other than doll clothes. I did manage to make a couple of new skirts for the 16" Tonner girls. The blue and black plaid is made with a standard knife pleat all the way around. UltraBasic Tyler models this one. The jacket she wears is from Sew-Cool Separates , the top underneath it and her shoes are from Tonner, while her necklace is from Cloud 9 Dolls.

The multi-colored plaid skirt is slightly different. I added an inverted pleat in the center front. A former "TaDa Daphne" a special doll from a Modern Doll Collectors convention in 2005, I believe, now with restyled hair, models this skirt. I made the blouse (years ago!!) and the shoes are also from Tonner.

Ballet, anyone?

A new doll gets one of my older creations, but ballet leotards are fairly timeless! Meet Pepper-Mint, a resin American BJD from Berdine Creedy. She's about 10.5" tall, and luckily can share clothes with Tonner's 10" Ann Estelle and friends dolls. The leotard, tutu and tights were all made for my Sophie, but they fit Pepper-Mint*, too! (*She'll be renamed after I enhance her face a little bit; nothing major, just a little something.)

American Girl spring outfit

Wow, I totally missed the month of March! Well, I was sick, so I hope that is good enough of an excuse. ;-) I did manage to make a couple of outfits for a friend's Bitty Baby and my daughter's American Girl. I have a picture of what I made for my daughter from Simplicity pattern 2458. My daughter dressed her, and she didn't quite manage to pull the sleeves down to 3/4 length, and I forgot to fix that before taking the picture. I'll probably make another t-shirt for her in a lighter color; the dark blue matches the dots in the dress, but doesn't bring them out as I hoped they would.

3 of a kind

The month is almost over already, and I've been busy with various projects. One project I finished earlier this month was two more dresses that coordinate with one I made a little while ago (center), a gracefaerie pattern called Simply Summer. The first I made fits a mature MSD BJD, modeled by SoulKid Yewon, who I call Amy, center front; I made the next one to fit an immature MSD BJD, and it fits my vinyl Goodreau BJD Secret (who I call Ruby, right). The 3rd dress I made turned out to fit Tonner's Jane - a 14" child doll (left). The fabric I used for the skirt was a bit thin, so I cut the original length of the skirt in half to layer it a bit. It ended up being too short for the MSD girls, so Jane was the lucky girl!

I made on other gracefaerie pattern this month, #30 Play Day. The only problem is, it doesn't look so good on the mature dolls! Ooops! I find myself in need of an "immature" model about 16" tall. My handful of devoted followers will have to wait until I can acquire a model to see this creation, or wait for me to find somebody with a model I can borrow (or loan the dress to). :)