So what have I been beavering away at in secret for the last few months (other than bags of course)?
I immediately knew I had to enter when my hell bunny rag arrived - one problem though - no doll to dress.
I found a Liv doll on ebay, made a few tiny modifications (painted her
lips and eyebrows - her eyes are a bit too green (mine are brown) but close enough), and got to work on a coat - not strictly within the
rules as they are after dresses - but in my head I wanted to do a coat
so that's what I started with! I made some little fit patterns first then made paper patterns for the coat using my fit patterns.
I used felt and trimmed it with
black ribbon.
(this is a page from my working sketchpad -everything goes in here)
I
quickly made her some trousers too for modestys sake, and found some
little shoes and boots from ebay to fit.
'Lindy' Dress #1 was a copy of my Sassy
dress in tropical - as I have no tropical fabric in my stash I went for
fruity instead, and made her a little net underskirt.
Last was the
Larissa Flamingos dress (Dress #2) I knew I wanted to use some of my favourite flamingo fabric for this!
I also made a couple of mini bags
and some jewellery to accessorise. I'm pretty pleased with how she came
out.
Noah and I got some wallpaper samples from B&Q to use for
backgrounds, and I snapped her this afternoon. I'm not a great
photographer unfortunately but I think you can get the gist!
Next on the
list - Handmade by London - the Flora dress. Its all cut out ready for
the sewing machine! Can I meet that deadline too?!
