Happy Saturday everyone,
Thank you Linda, for answering everyone’s comments. I am just now seeing the rest of the comments… again, another busy day for me…
BUT, I did make some progress on Sara’s dress outfit.
I found a scrap of white little girls tights, (that I use for my thigh highs, and didn’t want to take any chances of snagging it..there was only enough for 2 legs and NO MISTAKES! So what did I do? I put on some gloves to keep my fingernails from snagging the very fine microfiber lace. I may send along a pair of gloves for the winner so they can slip them on without the fear of snagging them. I am on the lookout for a new stretch fabric or allover lace that will work for my thigh highs, but one that isn’t so easily snagged.
Anyway, here are her thigh highs…
PLUS, I made a slip and added a blue rose to the yoke…
Here is a view with Sara laying down…
Once the thigh highs were made I wanted to see if the shoes would fit on Sara’s feet over the stockings…
Blue shoes… check!!
Next, the white shoes…
White shoes… check!!
Now, how about seeing them both…
Sara can’t decide which ones she likes best…
Do YOU have a favorite?
Have a wonderful Saturday and I’ll see you Monday!
Blessings, Jeanne
Those thigh-highs did turn out nice; good idea to send the gloves along for whoever wins this outfit, so she can put the thigh-highs on without worrying about snags!! The petticoat is the perfect touch under her dress.
Boy, seeing both pairs of shoes with the dress, I’m not sure which ones I prefer! Maybe you could let the auction winner choose? Maybe even offer the second pair to the winner for an additional price (which you’d have to announce in your auction, I suppose). I’m wondering if that would make it too complicated, though. It could be that any other accessory you may add will help you decide which pair goes with the outfit.
I think Linda mentioned the unsweetened Kool-Aid is 39¢ a package these days, but couldn’t remember how much it used to be. It seems like when I was a kid (in the 1950s), it was just 5¢ a package, and probably went up to 10¢ by the time I was in college. If I remember right, when my son was young (late 70s/early to mid 80s) it was about 19¢ a package.
I remember the days of Kool-Aid being 5 cents too. Linda mentioned she made her Kool-Aid without sugar. It reminded me that when I first moved to Texas I couldn’t drink the water. Where I came from our water was artesian and came from the mountains. Here I’m not sure where it was from but it was nasty. I kept being dehydrated so I looked for a remedy. I settled on Koot-Aid but that stuff called for two cups of sugar. No way was I doing that so I tried two tablespoons and eventually no sugar at all. I actually liked it that way.
You are welcome Jeanne, and I’m glad yesterday’s blog gave me time to help you! I enjoyed answering everyone and thanking them!
Oh boy, those two pairs of shoes are making it really hard to decide on which is best! I also think asking the buyer which she prefers would be a good idea, and then you have the start of another outfit with the remaining shoes. It just depends on what the buyer wants the dress for and her own personal preference. I can see picking either one! That won’t help, so we will see what others say.
I do want to say that I really like those sheer thigh highs though. They look way more cool and comfortable than the thicker ones. Good idea to include those gloves!
LInda, replying to your comment yesterday, yes my birthday is the day after Christmas, Beth’s is St. Pat’s Day, my youngest sister just missed the 4th of July (July 1) and I could stretch it by saying my sister Bea’s birthday just missed the first day of Spring (March 25). There are pictures of my village on the blog. Not sure how to search for them though.
Good morning.
The thigh highs are really nice. I have found that wearing a pair of disposable gloves is a godsend when I put tights on my dolls. Not only do they protect the tights from getting snagged, but they give me the grip I need to get them on the doll.
I vote for the blue shoes! They compliment the dress so much better than the white ones.
Happy Saturday!
Love the patterned fabric used for the thigh highs. Can you imagine how fast they would snag if a real little girl were wearing them? Please let us know if you are able to find any other suitable fabric for tights/socks/thigh highs. So many girls around here are in need. 🙂
I think Sara needs a little bunch of flowers to carry or maybe even in her hair. She is so pretty. 🙂
I do love that blue fabric. I’ve never seen a doll like your Nyssa in real life so I keep thinking of her as being small so I was surprised the print looked the same on Sara. Then I reminded myself Nyssa is not small. I love both pairs of shoes but I do like the blue shoes with the dress. I love colored shoes. I had my granddaughter, Jaiden, this week (more on that later) and she saw the picture of the dress. She loved the dress and especially the collar.
Well the roof is completely finished and just in time for a few days of rain. So thankful to not have to keep checking my sewing room for leaks. And now I can stand at my worktable when it’s raining. We had some definite Divine Intervention when they started the roof. Sean and Jason were supposed to do it but Jason was not up to the task and was not following instructions. A roof cannot be a do-over so David decided he was going to have to hire someone to help Sean, especially since Sean was a novice at roofing himself. The day they were putting the shingles on the roof a man came by and asked if they needed help with the shingling. He told them he was experienced at doing that. Well we’ve heard that story before on other things and the results were not acceptable. David wasn’t available so the boys took his name and number. When David saw there was going to be a problem, he called the man. He was amazing and it ended up more like Sean was apprenticed to him. Sean had to take off yesterday and it rained a lot in the morning, but as soon as it stopped the man showed up and finished the roof. There wasn’t much left to do, and he knocked it out in no time. David actually gave him a bonus for being so quick and doing such a great job. The man lives down the street but had been working on roofing jobs in San Antonio but the work dried up so he was looking for work. I just hope he’s available when David starts building the houses.
Now for the reason I’ve been out-of-pocket all week. Well there were two. I went to see our tax guy Tuesday and, aside from the fact that he gave me the bad news about the capital gains taxes we were going to have to pay, he gave me a “homework” list of things he still needed. I wasn’t thrilled. But the same day I had the appointment Jaiden showed up in the morning with her sewing machine in tow. When we gave her the machine for Christmas, I told her that if she wanted she could bring it out during Spring Break and I would start teaching her to sew. I made a promise and I intended to stick to it, but my focus wasn’t 100% on what I was doing and I made some really rookie mistakes.
The main part of the skirt is narrow pastel stripes. The bottom border is a butterfly print in the same colors. First I started cutting the pattern with the stripes going around rather than up and down. Not the plan. Then I noticed I had the shorter overlay piece rather than the longer skirt piece. Fortunately I caught it all fairly quickly but the front and back are supposed to be cut on the fold and now only the front could be. It was a good chance to show her how not to despair when something goes wrong. Her skirt now has a seam in the back.
She did the seams herself but did have a lot of trouble staying on the seam line no matter what I used to mark the spot on the machine. I had some stick-on things once, but I think I threw them away because I found them nearly useless. So we ended up using a small sticky note. I’m finishing up the elastic waist and doing the hem for her because not only did we run out of time but the concept of what to do was a bit advanced for her. It’s a beginner pattern but beginner for an 11-year-old and someone older has a whole different meaning. I wanted her to have something nice to wear for Easter hence starting with the skirt. Then she and I picked out a pretty blouse online from Kohl’s. Even though Sean and his family no longer go to church with us and the church they go to now is pretty casual, I still wanted her to have something nice for Easter and I knew that wasn’t going to happen unless I got involved. I just had to find a way to do it a bit covertly.
Her machine is a nice simple machine, but I did notice when I used it yesterday that it does tend to make it hard to sew the seam straight if you’re not used to finessing the fabric to keep it straight. I’m going to give her some scrap fabric so she can practice that at home. She is a quick learner and got the idea of not pushing or pulling the fabric but guiding it, but this other problem is going to take some experience on her part because I can’t see any way of stopping the movement of the fabric. My machine does not do this. David and Sean made the comment that now Jaiden wouldn’t know how to sew unless she made all my mistakes first. I hope there is no merit to that. But it did provide a teachable moment.
Please keep enlightening us with the “Jaiden Learns to Sew” episodes. Definitely will give me ideas when I buy a sewing machine for grand. Sounds like you are a great teacher. 🙂
Definitely will do that, but there probably will be no new episodes until school is out. I think at that time we will work on doing some clothes for her 18″ doll for awhile so she can grasp concepts like gathering and hemming, etc. Learning those things on a garment for her will be a bit overwhelming I think.
Tough decision but I still like the blue best. This dress is so pretty on Sara!