Hi everyone,
I was asking myself which doll did I want to make a dress for before the end of the year? Specifically, who should be the one to get the first Christmas dress? I know it’s late, but things in my life and my husbands have been busy. I do the best I can with my sewing… sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t.
So the doll I decided needed a dress was…well, actually I decided on the dress first, then the doll. I decided I wanted to make a Civil War dress… a Christmas Civil War dress.
I looked at all my fabrics and decided on this green and red print for my dress. It’s going to be accented with black to make it a little more dressy.
I decided to use American Girl Rebecca as my Civil War model as her pretty green eyes look wonderful with this fabric.
I only have one more of these buttons I use for brooches on my Civil War dresses.
I only have worked on the bodice, adding vintage black baby rick rack around the armhole seam…and around the sleeve cuffs.
The snaps are sewn to the sleeve cuffs but the back isn’t finished yet…
I will do my best to keep working on the dress…
:o)
Thanks everyone,
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh, HERE it is!! Your Tuesday blog was nowhere to be found when I checked at 3 a.m., Jeanne–usually it shows up between 1 and 2 my time (PST), and I was getting worried, so I commented on the Monday blog, and wrote comments to Barbara, Karen and Sissy, too. So I’ll let you all go and see what I said if you want to, and here about my toe and all. (big thrill….)
Although my preference is always for the more modern eras, I really like this print–is so rich looking!–and I think it’ll make a wonderful Civil War dress!
Jeanne, I love the dress so far, and the “Christmasy” colors too! Rebecca is the sweetest looking doll to give it attention, not that it needs it! I love that button/brooch too, it really brings everything together! Maybe you ca. even add a purist with the new purse fittings you showed us yesterday! However, I’m no expert on if such things were used at that time.
Glad I caught the blog not being where it usually is this morning!