Doll clothes for Barbie, Silkstone Barbie and Fashion Royalty.

Hi, I have been busy this weekend making a dress to fit Barbie or Silkstone Barbie. This dress will fit the newer smaller busted dolls because I have used velcro but the dress does look better on the more 1950's looking dolls. I thought I would try making a dress with an asymmetrical hem and I love it. I also had great fun making the little clutch bag with a butterfly motif.

Doll clothes for Blythe dolls.

Hi, I have been very busy this week making more doll clothes and visiting friends. I had a lovely afternoon chatting to friends and drinking tea yesterday. Its back to making doll clothes today. I have made some pretty Blythe skirts and tops. The effects look good and I am very pleased with them.

More barbie clothes on the way.

Doll clothes.

Hi, I have had one of my doll clothes advertised in a magazine. I am really happy, it looks great. The magazine is Handmade Halloween and was published on Thursday. The dress is a lovely purple straight satin finish dress with a purple overskirt. The overskirt has a black witch pattern. Great fun.

I have also made a long length version of the dress with comes with a feather boa.

Doll clothes.

Hi, I have had a very nice day visiting a friend and taking a walk. The season is moving on and the fields are being harvested. This year is flying by. Yesterday I made a couple of dresses to fit the  Barbie type dolls using my basic pattern. The print of the fabric was lovely for the doll dresses and just about the correct size. I use velcro to fasten the dresses so that they fit all types of these fashion dolls (Barbie). I have lots of items to make for Christmas and am a little bit late starting. I will be at two Christmas fairs this year and need to build up my stock. The advent calendars will need to be made first as I shall need them for the first fair at the beginning of November. I know it seems a long time away but it will be here before we know it. At the moment, I am having fun making the summer dresses for Barbie.

Embroidery panel.

Hi, I have finished the embroidery panel I have been stitching. This is part of the City and Guilds course I am studying. The embroidery panel was based on the designs I created in the first module of the course, taken from the layers of an onion. The onion layers were enlarged to create a pattern. I thought the layers looked like a landscape, hence the design of the panel. Very pleased that the panel is finished. I will be working with transparent fabrics to complete the current module. I also have to design a 3D item based on the texture module completed previously. I will have to give this a lot of thought.

Hi Back from holiday this week. We had a fantastic time in Cornwall. I managed to do a little it of painting and sketching and saw some great work in local galleries. I was particularly impressed with the acrylic paintings at the Old Forge Gallery in Boscastle. Helen Setterington, the artistic, captures the coastal scenery brilliantly. However, with the holiday over its time for me to get back to the chores (piles of washing and ironing). I am breaking myself in gently this week and putting in some work on my City & Guilds course, completing the embroidery panel. So far so good. It should be finished by Sunday.