Category Archives: Doll Hats

“Are You Ready?”

Are you ready for the first day of school? It’s not so far off for some, and others have a month or more of summer vacation left. The public schools in Chicago don’t start until the second week in September and here in the suburbs the kids go back middle to the end of August. My niece who lives in a southern state has one more week off. 😦

Personally, I cannot believe it is time to start thinking about school starting up again, but it is.

My Little Darling, Gina, is beginning to get ready and would like to show you her new school-ish looking ensemble.

Gina’s lace sweater is knit out of natural colored lace weight merino wool yarn and embroidered with mirrored image rose motifs to coordinate with the dress print.

Who can resist a beret for back to school? I embroidered this one with a blue rose and added a multi-looped hand tied red grosgrain bow. Très chic!

Isn’t this the cutest blue rose print? The colors of blue, red, and green on an ivory background seemed like the perfect back to school palette.

For more information on Gina’s “Are You Ready?” ensemble, please visit my “Available for Sale” page on cindyricedesigns.com .

Summer Means Lots of “Blue Skies, Sunny Days”

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A picture perfect blue sky along with a sunny day is the kind of summer day I had during this photo shoot with Millie. It was a pleasure being outside and taking these pictures of her. I thought she looked lovely outdoors.

Millie finally got her very own light as a feather mohair/silk embroidered sweater. It is embroidered with sunny yellow roses and blue colonial knot sprays of flowers.

Millie is wearing her new wig that I ordered just for this ensemble. It is a mohair bob from Kemper. You can see it here. I needed to play hair dresser and trim it a bit because it was way long. Trimming the wig was actually quite easy to do.

Using the pool as a back drop added the most gorgeous turquoise color behind Millie. Secretly, I think she wished she could take a dip in the cool water.

Millie has a golden yellow blossom for you that she picked from the garden while we were outside. Isn’t she a sweetheart?

For more information on “Blue Skies, Sunny Days”, please visit my “Available for Sale” page on cindyricedesigns.com.

A New Knit Dress Ensemble for the Little Darlings

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Phew, it feels GREAT to have gotten something completed today and the Little Darlings get something new…yes, again. I finished something new for Millie mid week, but felt that I really needed another wig so that the ensemble looked its best for the photo shoot. So, poor Millie is in limbo right now waiting for the mail service to do its work.

I spent a day and a half this past week working on a new styled dress for Talyssa. I am so HAPPY with how the dress looks on her and will finish up the other pieces of her ensemble this coming week so she can model it for you.

And, here is Gina, my Little Darling, modeling “Summer Blooms” which I put the finishing touches on this morning. I actually started knitting this sweater dress two weeks ago. These little babies take awhile to knit (remember they have over 10,000 stitches in each dress), so I would pick it up between projects. If I didn’t work on it this way, I would really feel like nothing was getting completed. If you’d like to read about my first fine gauge sweater dress that I made for the Little Darlings you can find it HERE and HERE is the second one that I made for them. I added a crocheted cap to this one; it seemed like the perfect summery touch for this ensemble.