Mood:
hungryNow Playing: "Dukes of Hazard, First Season" - something for my fellas to enjoy together
Finally got the dishes done ! And I wanted to show the material I used to patch Dearest Son's pants with, so I made a Barbie dress out of it. Now I just have to post it on the main site - but here's a sneak preview of ‘Hot Tropics'. I won't have time to post it tonight, and I don't think posting a ‘flame' print dress is a good idea on 9/11. Maybe I'm being hypersensitive, but I think adding it to the main site can wait a day or three.
I actually still have some of this fabric left, maybe enough to make a simple shirt for one of the guy dolls. I only bought a quarter yard, 1) because I thought the print was too big to use for doll clothes 2) since that'd be about all I'd need and 3) because ¼ a yard = $1. Turns out, yeah, it is big, but it looks OK on a doll. There's also a blue version of the fabric, so I'm beginning to wonder how it would look on a doll...
The pattern is Simplicity 4422, View 1. Looks a lot like Mari Dewitt's ‘Basic Dress', goss knows I've made a few dozen of those. The original pattern calls for lace at the sleeve and skirt hems, but I didn't have anything to really go with the fabric. I certainly didn't wanna go out and buy more lace - it took me 20 minutes to go through what I had to decide I didn't wanna use any of it. So I used black ribbon. You can hardly see it on the sleeves, I probably could have skipped it there. But I think it adds a touch of the unexpected at the hem. It also keeps the skirt poofed out a bit, being a bit more rigid than the cotton fabric.
Not sure if the clear plastic presser foot on the sewing machine is helping or not. Sewing Son's patches and today's neckline was easier, but I don't know if that's due to the foot, or I'm simply used to it now. But, hey, whatever makes any aspect of creativity easier is OK in my book ! Especially when it didn't cost nothin'. !
This is PJ, one of the dolls I got last month at the flea market for a buck. I'm going to leave her hair as-is, although she can really use a reroot. It's too thin at the front, something I could probably hide if I put her original ponytails back up. But I don't want to. While I'll occasionally get silly when I have longer hair and pull mine up like that, I think it's kind of silly-looking for anyone over 30 to have twin side ponytails as an everyday hairstyle. No offense to anyone who does - it's just my worthless opinion ! I'm really over-conscious of that ‘mutton dressed as lamb' thing.
Hit GoodWill today, nothin'. They did have a Berenguer baby doll with a neck ! Sorry, it's kind of a joke with me, since most of their dolls seem to be manifestations of 'No Neck Monsters' (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and it bugs me. She was well made, with an expressive face and joltingly realistic ears, but her hair was torn up so badly, I'd have to reroot. And I already have three dolls sitting around waiting for their turn for hair. Found a never-worn coat for Son - and it was half off ! Score ! Dollar Tree yielded big carpet squares, so I finally have some green carpet I really like ! As well as a multicolored square you'll be seeing soon, possibly as Friend Ship airplane carpeting.
Not sure what's next - other than laundry ! I may print out a simple tank-top type shirt pattern and use up some more ‘flame'. And post it on the 12th. Or the 13th, just for teasing.
