More Doll Clothes

I've kept myself busy lately making more doll clothes!  This could be addictive!  Here are a few photos:

This outfit is on an American Girl doll I purchased off Ebay.  She has a few issues such as loose strings in her arms, cut bangs and 2 different colored brown eyes.  Her hair needs some brushing and something for the frizzies too but for $27.00 I can't complain too much.  I mainly bought her so I don't have to keep borrowing one of the girls dolls to try clothes on.  The pants for this outfit were fun to make.  The top...not so much!  It has a collar and interfacing and between the fact that I haven't done those things in several (alot) years and they were so small it took me several tries to get it looking right.  The top is a bit snug on the American Girl.  It fits the Karito doll just right but the pants are capris on her since she's about 2" taller than the AG.  Here is the next outfit I made:

This outfit was lots of fun to make.  I've since put a cute black bow inbetween the straps at the top of the shirt.  I had so much fun making this outfit that I've cut out 3 more (in different fabrics)!  I also used the same pattern to make 2 sets of summertime jammies.  As you can see I added cute little ribbon flowers at the ends of the straps.  The other set has light blue buttons instead of flowers.



Here is the book I got these patterns out of: 

I went to a yardsale last weekend and bought some white eyelet kitchen curtains.  The valances are the perfect length to make cute skirts for the dolls.  All I had to do was cut the length off to fit and sew that side up.  Now I'm putting on snaps and they'll be finished!  Cute little skirts for 50 cents with lots of fabric left over! 

I've also made a few more things out of baby clothes.  They aren't perfect but the girls love them and that's all that counts right?

 This was made out of a size 18 month top.  It was just asking to be made into a long dress.

And this was also a long top.  I cut it in half and made a skirt and top out of it.  I used the cap sleeves to make matching anklets!  By the way, this is a Madame Alexander doll.  She's about the same size as an AG doll.


I've been busy sewing 2" scraps into a scrappy quilt but I'll save those pictures for another blog post...hope you all have a wonderful day!

Doll Clothes

I've been very busy lately!  I decided I'd try my hand at making clothing for the grand's 18" dolls.  I had bought a book a year or 2 ago and put it away thinking I'd get back to it shortly...we all know how that goes right?  Please tell me I'm not the only one that does this!  Anyway, I've dug the book out, looked at tons of pictures on Pinterest and gotten started on a new addiction...called doll clothes.  My 1st project was to take a top that Mia had outgrown and see if I could turn it into a dress for Brianna's Karito Kids doll, Mae Ling.  (Karito Kids are beautiful dolls and just a tad bit taller and slimmer than American Girls or Madame Alexander dolls.)  I knew I wanted to save the cute embroidery work on the front of the dress and the eyelet at the collar and hem.  By trying the top on the doll I was happy to see that it was the perfect length for a long dress!  I took a big breath and started by taking off the center strip of the top and laying it aside.  Then I took the plunge and cut the top down the front center.  Boy, that was scary!  I sewed it back together as close to the embroidery as possible then using a seam ripper took out the sides and sleeves.  I had to remove the front from the back and after doing that I cut the back in half.  I fiddled around with how to put an opening down the back so the clothing would slip on and off easily.    I figured it out but had to go back later and make the opening bigger.  The front and back were made smaller by cutting them at the sides and the sleeves had to be cut down to fit in the smaller opening.  This all took me about 3 evenings of working on it.  I went to Joann's and found some cute silk flowers to put down the front of the dress.  I took the center strip that I had first taken off the shirt and made a simple headband and used the rest of the silk flowers on it.  I was so happy with how the dress turned out that I decided Mae Ling needed new socks and shoes too!  I took a youth's pair of white anklets and created kneehighs and then crocheted a pair of black Mary Jane shoes.  While it's not perfect in my eyes it is in Bri's and that's all that counts!  The girls spent the night with me on Saturday and Bri's comment after I finished the shoes and we got the doll dressed..."Oh Nana, she's perfect"!  And that dear friends is all it took for me to get hooked on making doll clothes for the girls!

Mae Ling's new shoes and socks...I made the shoe pattern up!

Mae Ling in her new outfit: