Category Archives: Fabric

The Past Seven (or so) Days

I’ve been hogging the limelight with new ensembles all week long, so here are some casual shots from the week that you might enjoy looking at.

As you can see, I am still in a pink mood. Aren’t all of these pink rose prints lovely? A couple are new and three of them were used last year, but I still have LOTS more to make more dresses with. I like laying them out in a little collection for a few days.

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The peach pink rose print pictured above is being made into a dress to go with this cardigan for Patience.

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After my last couple of embroidery projects I was left with quite a mess. It’s all cleaned up now, but I’ve begun a new mess. 😳

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Here is Lucy’s dress in progress. You are looking at the wrong side that’s why it is looking so washed out. It is a lilac-y pink rose print. Here is Lucy wearing the dress. One of the mohair sweaters that I knit in January will be embroidered to go with this dress.

I needed a little bit of cheering up on this dreary Monday morning; Lucy did the trick.

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Lucy borrowed the carrot red mohair wig from Penny and wears it quite well too. I’m not sure who wears it better. Below is a picture of Penny during our photo shoot for “Pretty in Purples”.

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Bye for now! Have a great week!

Fabric Delivery

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One of the reasons I love to do what I do is the “need” for fabric. I cannot sew a dress without fabric. And, really I don’t have that much. Ha ha! These days so many illustrators are putting their super sweet designs onto fabric and it’s impossible to resist them, you know? And then there’e that “gotta fill up the shopping cart to get free shipping” thing.

My fabric stash is growing quicker than I can use it. I have to slow down, really I do. Another ha ha, I’m afraid.

When I know a new order of fabric is being delivered it is a very exciting day for me. All that new inspiration coming to my studio… it’s so, well inspiring!

The two on the right were previously purchased, but came from the same collection. Too cute for words!

These four are my favorites!

If you’d like some of my homegrown tips on selecting fabric for doll clothes, I talked about it in this post here.

Now, if only I can add twice as many hours to my day I’d be all set.

Bye for now!

Fabric, Fabric, and More Fabric

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Within the past few weeks I have gotten (I don’t know how many) multiple deliveries of fabric. (I don’t even remember all of the sites that I have ordered from as I keep finding more and more online stores with cute fabric.) Anyway, I’ve been looking at this ever increasing pile of yummy colors and cute prints knowing that it will be a while until I am able to start using them, but I wanted to show them to you now anyway because they are too pretty not to share.

As always, there are a few here that I am not sure about, a few that I am super excited about, and the in betweens that will work just fine and perhaps even surprise me with the end result.

It can be hard buying fabric online because it is a guessing game as to if it will work for doll clothes or not. Luckily, 1/2 yard of fabric isn’t too expensive, so if it doesn’t work for doll sewing it might work for a quilt or other project in the future.

Here are a couple of things that I do when shopping for fabric online. To assess the scale of a particular fabric, I enlarge the swatch on my screen to actual size. On my Macbook I hold down the command key and use two fingers to swipe up on the track pad until I reach the desired size. (If I go too far I simply swipe my fingers downward.) Usually there is a ruler laying alongside the swatch, the swatch size is noted, or a size is given for one of the motifs. Having a little ruler handy helps here. Sometimes I will hold the doll up to the screen to get an even better feel for the scale of the fabric. If I am unsure of the color or would like to see more photos of the print I will go to the manufacturer’s website, Facebook page, or look up the designer. Most designers have their own social media sites these days (blogs, Facebook, Instagram, website) and you can see alternate photos of their fabric collection.

Here are a few photos from some of my new fabrics.

Can you tell that I LOVE fabric? My motto (and this is why I have too much) is that if you fall in love with a certain fabric don’t hesitate because it will all be gone in no time. And, probably the biggest reason of all as to why I have too much fabric is that I always try to get free shipping. Who wants to pay for shipping when that cost could go for more fabric, right? LOL