Doll Family Complete....and Tropical Dress...

Jada has completed my doll family! I got her two days ago and finished up her new red dress yesterday. Her tropical look offsets the snow outside!  Her little pretty glasses finish off her look!  She is the last doll - at least for some time to come, as this completes the dolls I wanted to have. :) She is an Adora Doll from AMAZON.  Her pictures don't do her justice, but that seems true of so many things, dolls included! The dress is from Summer 2017 Too Cute Doll Magazine. I changed the front hemline to have curves and also lined this which was a real task when it came to the flounce on the top. Must be an easier way to do that than the instructions for the pattern. 

Ironing station because I luckily have two mats due to fixing one and also getting a replacement. These are pressing boards and are wonderful! Actually hard boards with batting and all cotton covers. Plus I bought a silicon iron mat which is really a nice accessory. So I set this up as a pressing station when I make doll clothes now. 

Wanted to picture my faithful Pfaff sewing the dolly dress. Winter outside....tropical dress inside!!

Belle in Her Flutter Sleeve Dress...and the Group Increases...

Yes, the group has increased. My very nice birthday present was Brinley from the Kindred Hearts dolls on Amazon, and her sister Brinley (the second), from the same collection but new to the collection on Amazon as of late in 2019. So I made Brinley 2 a very cute little dress. I sidetracked myself into making this sweet little dress. It is the Flutter Sleeve dress from HappyBankky.  So cute. All lined bodice which is really the easiest way to make a doll bodice. Facing on a doll pattern are too fiddly and tiny and bias tape too unwieldy as a finishing for armholes and necklines. Lined always looks so finished!!  Sandwiching the sleeve seam into the lining also looks really nice. 

The fabric is leftovers from cotton bought at either joann's or Hancock's Fabrics awhile back to make casual jammie pants for a family member. Nice cottons really make cute doll clothes!

This is Belle (the former Brinley 2) wearing her new dress. She was the second doll in the Kindred hearts series to get the name Brinley for some reason - what were they thinking? So I renamed her Belle.  She loves her new cute little dress. ;) 

making the dresses for dolls required the sam attention to pressing that people sewing does!! I love my pressing board and my little Sunbeam Travel Iron for that purpose. 

Winter Nightgown...Yellow Glasses...

Paige wears the Winter Nighty from Rosie's Doll Patterns.  I made it in a soft very nice weight of cotton flannel that I found in a remnant bin at Joann Fabrics last year.  Paige decided to pair this with bunny slippers you can't see in the picture, plus her yellow glasses. A girl wants to be coordinated.

And there is a pair of Panda slippers coming in the mail so that if two dolls have nighties on they will both have slippers. I really do not like to see a doll without shoes and a nice outfit.

The next outfit up is a dress from a little doll magazine called Too Cute. And it is!

I have the cover dress cut out and ready to go in a red and white print. But I also have to start quilting the Asian quilt, so it's a toss up which I do tomorrow.

Quilt Coming Along...Sewn and pinned...

Got the quilt blocks sewn up, and the top assembled a couple of days ago, and then today I pinned the quilt - forgot to take any pictures of the pinned quilt though so it has to wait for the quilting to be photographed! This was started last April, so I guess it's been a case of foot dragging on my part.  Plus I then took up doll clothes, so that pushed back the other projects!  I still have a top I want to make.  I think that after the holidays are over, many of us decide to take time to enjoy our hobbies and crafts.