Too Too

In yesterday's post, the new doll is wearing a jumper and tutu. Yep, that's Stitch's dress for her amigurumi doll. Again, I crocheted it awhile ago, but I didn't like the buttons I had. I found these the other day when I was at the fabric store. They're the perfect green post buttons.

The tutu was simple to make. I bought a roll of 6" wide tulle from the wedding/floral section of the local craft store. I picked yellow to go with her dress. I just sewed a long basting thread for a while and gathered it up. When I stopped gathering, the edge was too long to wrap around her waist just once, so I loosened the gathers until they wrapped around her twice. Then I pinned the skirt and marked it in quarters. I cut an elastic the size of the doll's waist, overlapped the ends and sewed it, then marked that in quarters. I pinned the elastic to the tulle at the marked points and found that I needed to pin more to keep it in place as I sewed. Then I used a 3 step zigzag (wavy line on my machine) and stitched the elastic in. My basting thread didn't want to come out, so I just stretched the waistband till it popped and voila: super quick tutu.

Faces

I often leave doll faces blank. It could be laziness, but I'm more fond of the idea that the doll needs to show her personality and sometimes I don't know what it is yet. I left the Olive and Archie dolls' faces blank for years, and one day MissB drew on hers and I just evened it out. The face is just right.

This doll is a replacement.. Years ago, I dismembered MissA's doll. I hadn't realized that it was so loved.. I'll really have to dig to find that post. Anyway, so I chopped up a doll for her pattern. I enlarged it, cut out the pieces, then had it tucked away to work on during TJ's guitar classes. Then TJ started riding his bike to class and my stitching remained unseen. Until last week. While Grandma (my MIL) was here, I came across the bag and stitched up the doll with the machine.

MissA was set to the task of drawing the doll's new face. She had several practice goes and came back with what she wanted: a unibrow. Oh dear.