Pink And Blue Buttons Outfit (and wrap skirt)

Ignore the state of my coffee table, if you would... I need to make a stand, instead of propping Annabel up against my bottle of leave-in conditioner when I want her to be standing. >>;

So, this wrap skirt is another failure of making a circle skirt. But oddly, I quite like the results. I'm thinking of just making some wrap skirts (with heart-button closures) out of at least 2 more types of cloth. I have a lovely pink-green print, and a yellow print, and I'd like wrap skirts of those two, I think. I cut a template out of a paper plate and once I figured out that the arc wasn't quite right, I just went, "oh well, I'll cut out 2 pieces and join them together". Rather cute, all in all.

My first whole outfit!! I feel very accomplished. Well - no shoes - but still! Well... The Fashionista barbie brown-and-pink boots sort of go, but I'd like to make a pair of soft ones out of the brown fleece that button up with blue buttons to kinda tie the whole thing together. And I'd like for her to be wearing the cream tights from the old pair of granny panties instead of the brown tights. But still! I am very pleased.


The muff likely needs some little decoration on it, maybe one of the tiny silk roses that you can find and some ribbon along with a button or three. :)


Here's the hat, sans hair. ...It fits perfectly. But I'm going to say that it was my plan all along to leave it small so that it would sit jauntily off-kilter on top of her hair. I don't much like her with wig removed, wearing the hat.

Circle Skirt... failed attempt #1 + Project List!

NO TYCHO NOOOOO

Tycho is not a very good helper.

...which is one of the reasons why I didn't realize her hand had slipped half off. Sigh. I blame that on Tycho! But also I may have some adventures in felting later to correct that...

Also sorry if these pictures look a bit odd. They actually should look more normal than usual. Our den is pretty warm-toned, and I keep forgetting to hit autolevels. So these are actually more true to life. Doesn't Annabel have such lovely green eyes?

Anyway, I tried to do a simple circle skirt. I also did so thinking, "I don't need a pattern! Ha!"

No, no, I do need a pattern, and I do need to use a string compass, it is not something I can eyeball. So this skirt is, uhm, a little lopsided. Fortunately it's hidden fairly well here. The top is also just from the pair of old granny panties.

So!

Things I still want to do, in my last week or so of vacation...

-Figure out that loose hand and do some felting - maybe with glue if possible - to correct it. (I have tacky glue and the fray-stop stuff, would those work, I wonder? Or is hot glue felting the best way?

-Make some tights from the granny panties (w/ lace trim at the bottom, on the leg, capri-ish length)

-Make a good circle skirt cardboard pattern. Perhaps scan and post here.

-Make circle skirts out of most of the cotton prints I haven't touched yet - the greeny-pink, the pink stripes (this one done up better), the yellow.

-Make pants out of that corduroy.

-Figure out a simple, more fitted top pattern out of cloth. Perhaps combine with circle skirt to sew some sundresses.

-Make a small bodice of some type to go with the fancy evening gown.

-Cut up a Coca-cola can and try some simple armorsmithing/jewlerymaking. Circlet, bracers, shinguards, maybe a breastplate if I get the hang of it?

This is Tycho. He is a dog. He is a dog who loves his little squeaky mouse very, very much.

Parasol! + Links?

Guess who found the paper umbrellas that she had gotten years and years ago in a pack of 100 for her barbies? Guess who discovered there are a very few left? :D Guessed right!! Now Annabel has a lovely new parasol. I'd love to do a shot of her a la Kaylee from Firefly, sitting outside the ship with her wacky outfit and her parasol... that's the first episode I think? Ah, I can't remember.

Also...

If you would like to link to this blog, I would be more than delighted - ditto for followers. I made this button for use on forums and if you would like to use it to link I would greatly appreciate it. I will link back as I can!

Meta-doll! A doll for my doll Annabel.

So, I got looking at little dolls to be on scale for a doll for Annabel... and I just decided to make one!
It's a very, very crude cloth doll, but pretty okay I think for insomnia and no real plan.


Here's the finished project, with the doll in her dress.
The cloth is from the same old pair of granny panties that I used for the elegant dress below. She's a teeny doll, but I like the idea okay. Now I just have to stop myself from getting a polly pocket doll so my doll's doll can have a doll, to be my doll's doll's doll. Bahahah! ...It's bad when your hobbies start getting recursive I suppose.

Fancy Silky Dress

Looking at this dress, you probably wouldn't have guessed this was formerly a pair of granny panties...! I may be frugal, I may be odd, but I like 'em much better as a dress for Annabel than as uncomfortable too-large panties.

Now that it's well sewn - you can see how bad my work is in the shot that's from the back, and there are a few stray threads I still need to clip (I was just so excited to take pictures, haha). The fingerless gloves/over-fancy arm warmers were made from the same material. I probably have enough to make at least 2 more dresses from the fabric, 3 if I'm careful, thanks to the panties being a rather large pair!

I may reinforce the bodice a bit too... oh Japan, and your insistence that poor Annabel's bosom apparently always is set to "it's got to be at most 20 degrees out here" perky.

I may add on more to this. I may not. I'm surprisingly pleased with it, even from the back. There's a small train you can see there and when she's sitting. I think I might figure out some sort of belt or corsetlet-bodice to go on top of it to give it some punch. It's plain, but rather charmingly and elegantly so right now.

Penguin Lounge Pants (hopefully, soon PJs)

It took me two tries to make these and still they aren't quite right. (Sigh.) And I've tried to make a top two times too. After working with slightly stretchy cloth, I just can't quite grok how to work with the very stiff, unyielding flannel. Whatever I think will be loose ends up far too tight! I at least have gotten a top I think will work, spanning the gap with some ribbon, and making it button in the front... when I can find my bitty buttons, anyway. (Argh!)

The top pictured isn't a new one... but I did make a new white-knit top out of the top of a sock. It looks almost cable knit. I'm not sure quite what to do with it honestly... Ideas are appreciated. I have some pink silky fabrics that I could make a skirt for it with, or some pink-patterned plain cotton, or pink-and-green, or yellow, or even that corduroy. Decisions, decisions.

...but isn't it an adorable flannel, even if I can't sew it well, though? Penguins AND hearts! :)