Well, things started with a trip to JoAnn's a couple weeks ago. I wanted to make an apron and was looking for a pattern. The Simplicity patterns were on sale (5 for $5), I found a couple of apron patterns that I liked but I needed to pick out three more patterns for the sale. I haven't had a lot of luck with sewing clothes for myself, so I was looking for something smaller and easily completed, like a bag or a hat, and then I found this...
I was pretty sucked in at that point. What I've realized is, I'm totally addicted to dolls with wardrobes. Every doll-collecting person seems to have their "thing", the thing that they look for in a doll, maybe realism or personality or resale value or whatever. I love dolls with lots of clothes.
Well, I thought this doll wardrobe pattern was too cute to go without (especially the little pajamas on the right). I was contemplating resizing them for one of the dolls I have already, since I don't have an 8" doll like the ones in the pattern. Then I got the idea to look for cheap 8" doll to redress.
I found a doll store online that was having a closeout on Ginnys and picked up this little gal for a really good price:
Personally, with all that red hair I think she looks a bit like Kate Pierson from the B-52's. Of course, with all that done I now have a couple of presentations to prepare and I'll be going back on the consult service at the end of the month. So it looks like no sewing for me for a little while. Oh well.
In the meantime, I also found a website with about the biggest collection of Bleuette patterns I've ever seen. I've downloaded a whole bunch of them to use later. I'll never be able to afford an antique Bleuette, much less some of the reproductions out there, but looking at all the clothing patterns is kind of like doll heroin.
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