On the beach again… but with a few headaches…

Hi everyone,
Thank you to the dear lady who bought Mae’s dress tonight on Ebay. I’ll tell Mae all about who will be getting it.
Also, thank you to everyone who chatted today. I was busy doing things and didn’t even make it into my sewing room until almost 9:00 tonight. “Aunt Sally” is coming again next week and there were things I needed to do.

When I DID get in my sewing room I was still sort of excited about my new background “beach” scene and thought “who can I make a swim suit for that isn’t a Ruby Red?” I decided I would try cutting out a swimsuit for the 13″ Little Darlings, by Dianna Effner. I grabbed Lian because she has shorter hair and is easier to work with. I tried one of my swimsuits for the RRFF dolls on her and thought it just might work, but it needed to be shortened a bit in the body, as they are an inch and a half shorter in height.

So, I found a pretty swimsuit in my stash to cut up and just hoped it would work… BONK…it was horrible…

Not only was it too wide in the shoulders… look at it from the side… Worse than horrible…

It almost looks like it is on backwards…

I took a picture of Lian’s shoulders from the front and the side…They slope downward, and I’ve known for years that they aren’t the exact same on both sides. Each shoulder is slightly different.

So… not to be defeated, I got Sydney, a 12″ RRFF doll out of the dolly cabinet. I don’t use her very much at all, because her eyes have turned red and they are a bit creepy looking to me. I see people selling things on their Siblies dolls and they have lavender or pink eyes, and I just can’t make myself do it. Maybe I could make her some sunglasses and get by with it.

Not great, but better than Lian. So, I took some pictures of Sydney and then took a few of them together.

When I put them back to back, you can see how Sydney’s arm comes forward, where Lian’s arm is straight down. But when you look at their chest area, Sydney is much thinner and her chest isn’t nearly as protruding as Lian’s is.

By now I was feeling a bit defeated. It was going to take a major adjustment on the pattern and probably a new pattern from the start for Lian to have a swimsuit, so I pushed it aside, laid my dolls out of the way, and grabbed another swimsuit to cut up.

I got Sarah out this time, (I know back to the Ruby Red Fashion Friends, but I wanted to have something to show you, and this was the quickest thing I could come up with.)

Finally, something to show that fits! I made Sarah this pretty little swimsuit from a blue and white with a touch of peach swimsuit. It was a ladies very pretty suit and I knew it would look good on Sarah with her blue eyes.