Category Archives: Doll Hats

The New Girl

I’d like to introduce my new girl, a Fairyland Pukipuki doll named Sugar. She is 11cm tall so is only 1 cm taller than Amelia Thimble, but has a wider body and limbs. She is not as delicate by far. Her hands and feet pop off and on very easily with the help of magnets. This makes it so easy for dressing or even adding a bracelet, no clasp needed. I stuck a metal lid underneath my white fabric that I use for photographing and she stood without any fiddling around. Love her!!!

I just finished this dress for her. I asked Sugar what she would like for her first dress and she told me, “Roses in lots of pretty colors.” I guess it’s because they’re as sweet as she is. I love how her first dress turned out. Because she is a wider doll I found more space for embroidering her special roses.

It didn’t take long for Sugar to find a special friend.

It’s Starting to Feel a Lot Like Christmas…is Right Around the Corner

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My little Amelia Thimble has been very, very busy lately. I have a handful of tiny “Christmasy” dresses made and she has had to model all of them. I must say that she did a very good job, looking as cute modeling the last dress as she did modeling the first. After Amelia’s job was done I told her that it would be a good idea to lie down and take a nap. She is such a little thing after all. However, my dear tiny Amelia wanted to chat with the new girl, who isn’t much bigger than she is. More on the new girl later…

Here is my first set of dresses. They are all knit out of super kid mohair/silk lace weight yarn. This yarn is so soft and fuzzy. I love it, but the fuzziness of it requires some patience when embroidering on it. I found myself always pulling those long mohair strands out of my embroidery. Grrr! Well worth the bit of aggravation though, don’t you think?

This trio of super kid mohair/silk dresses all have holiday themed embroidery. The pink dress is embroidered with a large red poinsettia at the waistline, mint green evergreen boughs, and clear seed beads. The lilac dress is embroidered with smaller poinsettias in pink and red. I added clear seed beads to this dress also. I think they give an icy effect to the embroidery.

I love this shade of blue. I know blue isn’t typically a Christmas color, but it seemed to work as a holiday dress when embroidered with holly. I just had to add some pink roses too.

I hope you enjoyed this tiny taste of the upcoming holiday season. For more information, please check my website.

Patience & Amelia Thimble Model New Sister Set

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Wilde Imagination’s Patience and Amelia Thimble dolls are here to show you their brand new sister set that I just completed for them. I used this corduroy print once last year making an outfit for Helen Kish’s Bethany doll and loved working with these colors so much that I decided to use it again for Patience. Of course if Patience gets a new outfit then Amelia gets a coordinating set too. The embroidery on this set is a different stitch for me. Because the flowers are pastel on a darker yarn I had to make them more solid so they would show up nicely. I put a lazy daisy stitch around straight stitches and was very happy with the end result. Does anyone know if this stitch has a name?

To see more pictures and for more information on these outfits, please visit cindyricedesigns.com.