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Happy Valentine’s Day from Patience

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Patience is so happy to have a Valentine’s Day ensemble to model for you.  Isn’t she “LOVE”ly in it?  This festive outfit features all of the requisite Valentine’s Day colors, shades of red and pink, and ivory.  Delicate English cotton cluny lace decorates the hemline.  There are lots of hand embroidered hearts in this outfit, the crocheted headband alone has a dozen.  To get all of the pieces to coordinate to my liking I hand dyed (and custom mixed most dyes) the silk ribbon, Peruvian Highland wool for the sweater, cotton fabric to match the heart print’s background, and cotton Lycra for the tights.

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Patience’s little bracelet is made with freshwater pearls.  Here’s a close up of the lace, isn’t it delicate?

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A dozen hearts in five different shades are embroidered on Patience’s headband.  A “corsage” of hearts adorns her shoulder.

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Patience wants to be your Valentine.

Happy Halloween from Riley, Tulah, and Zsu Zse!

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20 group halloween 2005These sweet little dolls came to your house to trick-or-treat.  Do you have any candy for them?

I dug this photo out of my archives.  I made these outfits in 2005!  Gosh, I cannot believe it’s been eight years.  The sweaters are crocheted.  I remember making the little candy corn buttons out of artists clay and then painting those tiny pieces with my tubes of acrylic paint.

Back in 2005 (and for the next four years) these Kish littles were primarily the dolls I was dressing.  Botanic Riley was my first “expensive” collector doll.  I cannot remember exactly how much I paid for her, but she was in the low $100’s.  I thought I would never spend more on a doll.  Well, things have sure changed…

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Happy Halloween everyone!!!

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.

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