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This is the doll that I have had sitting in the cupboard for a long while now. I fell in love with her pretty face, and the fact that she bends in all the right places. My Granddaughter turns four at the start of next month, and her Mum says she loves dolls and plays properly with them - she had a school going on last week, with every little character she could collect up. Now that is proper dolly games. Not like schlepping a naked Barbie by the hair, as one sees in the supermarket so often!
The picture is of her wearing an Alsace traditional costume, but she was supplied wearing ballet clothes, and I have found a few other bits and bobs over time, so she goes home well supplied, I have been having fun making some as well.
It has been lovely going through my boxes of bits to find fabric and trimmings. Now I know why I have been saving stuff all these years!
The stripy cardi is from Arne & Carlos' Doll book, adapted slightly. It is actually a traditional pattern from Fano in Norway.
Posted a couple of packages to California - not long till the new Grandbaby arrives. Now that the contents have been seen and approved, I can show off a bit.
This is "Babies and Bears" and I owe thanks to Kirstie for pointing me at the pattern source, and for showing her own version, which tempted me. I made it in cotton yarn, and left off the hood, since I thought that even a Californian "winter" might not need too much warmth.
Lene Alve's Aada went too, just in case a bit of wool might be needed. That's the one on the right with the third prize ticket on it
Then I had made a little angel top and pants from a piece of Tana Lawn that I have had for years - too small for something for me, but too pretty to be discarded. The colours are just scrumptious, and the trimming matched perfectly - and that, too, was something that had been waiting around for a long time.
Doing
the ironing, discovered a small hedge tear in one of my favourite
shirts. On the right sleeve, just where our loving girl puts a socking
great paw when she wants to say "Play please"
I did manage to resist the temptation to screw it up and put it in the bin - it is a favourite shirt, and has been around for a long time - the pattern first appeared in a Burda magazine at about the same time as the film "Braveheart" came out, and we have always referred to it as the Wromantic Shirt. It has dropped sleeve heads with lots of released tucks at the tops of the sleeves, and again at centre back. The fabric is Tana Lawn, pattern Toria.
So I found some linen gauze, and tacked a piece on the back
I darned it as well as I could - had to use my magniying glasses for this bit.
Trimmed and turned the backing fabric raw edges under, and hemmed them down.
A press, and that is as good as I can get it. Now I have a job to find it when looking with my regular glasses! Back in circulation.
