Hi everyone,
Well, it’s Friday again… where did this week go? But stay tuned for next week… we’ve got Barbie dresses extraordinaire from Elizabeth and my sister Cindy, sent me some more dolly pictures from Yesteryear, the Antique store where she has her booth. You won’t want to miss either of these days.
I doesn’t matter if I share 1940’s candy bars, making dolly hats from tea cups, or searching for a suitable picnic basket for Molly, you ALL have things to say about everything. I think I’m going to have to go back to the candy post and add a few comments… I enjoyed so much what you all commented on.
I’m not sure HOW what I’m about to show you took me all day to make… I must be off on my sewing game… but it did… I think I spent 4 hours alone, trying to get the ruffles for Ten Ping’s dress fixed to suit me. This was try number 2… number 1 is in the trash… I cut it up…
I didn’t like it because the flutter ruffles weren’t even and they weren’t gathered to suit me… they were more like pleats…
I tried basting them in by hand, then basting them on the machine, then using pins, and the gathers would just not stay the way I wanted them…
When I folded it over it looked too thick and not at all what I had in mind…
So I started over and decided to use my scalloped scissors and just use one layer of tulle and see if that worked better….
It was better, but not exactly how I had the sleeves pictured…
I might have to put some tiny silk ribbon bows up on the shoulder to draw your attention to them instead of the ruffles… we’ll see…
The hearts being flocked seemed to be the problem on the sleeves, but it was such a small space…only about 1 1/2″ long… The skirt fabric and the tulle were sewn together and then gathered with 3 rows of basting… (same as the sleeve ruffles), and the skirt looks very nice.
So anyway, here is what I have done so far… the back doesn’t have any snaps yet…
I had to try the hat on just to see if it was going to work… of course it’s hard to tell without any flowers yet.
I’ll see if I can find time this weekend to do more on it… and I’ll see you Monday…
Oh one more thing… Joy sent me this fun picture of some hens looking in a mirror. She said someone told her chickens loved looking in a mirror, but she had no idea they’d wait in line to do it…
I showed my hubby the picture and this was his response… “They aren’t looking at themselves, they think it’s a door.”
Have a wonderful weekend, and see you next week.
Blessings, Jeanne
First of all, I replied to comments by Rosemary, Laura, Sissy, Linda, and Elizabeth yesterday, if you want to take a look.
As I read about your sleeve attempts, and scrolled thru the pictures, my first thought was, “why doesn’t she just use one layer of tulle?” and then of course that was your next comment!! Great minds and all that, huh?!!
I am really loving how this dress is coming along. It is so pretty!! She could be a flower girl in her aunt’s wedding, or something like that! I need to see if I can find some of that tulle around here somewhere. I just love it!
Well, so much for the idea of the hens looking at themselves!! I can see how they might think it’s a door–a door with more hens on the other side!! LOL
Looking forward to next week’s pictures!!