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One More Fall Ensemble

I have one more fall ensemble and my Little Darling, Gina, is the lucky recipient before I go full steam ahead and create ensembles for Christmas and the holiday season.

I guess fall 2015 is the season of purples. Here’s another ensemble with a shade of lavender and pink, but this one is different. I don’t think I have ever seen a pink like this—cool, but muted. Usually, muted pinks go towards the peach and this one doesn’t at all, nor is it a sweet pink. It is so hard to explain; if I were to mix it up I’d take red and white to make pure pink, add a touch of blue to cool it down, then add a bit of yellow, so it becomes a neutral. Anyway, it is a very pretty and unique shade of pink.

I happened to have the perfect shade of muted lavender wool which matches the stems and vines in the print. For the embroidery, I brought in the merlot color for the colonial knot berries and a coordinating shade of the pink for the bullion, lazy daisy, and back stitched vines and leaves.

I also had the perfectly coordinating shade of merlot heather wool to make a cozy scarf. The scarf can be worn different ways.

Gina didn’t want flowers to hold, she wanted a soft and cuddly teddy bear, so I found this one in a burgundy red and knit him up his own muted lavender scarf with fringe. The scarf is removable too.

This print is very feminine, so lace accents and pearls went nicely with it.

For more information on Gina’s “Sweet ‘n Cozy Fall”, please visit my “Available for Sale” page at cindyricedesigns.com .

Thanks for visiting and reading about Gina’s new ensemble. Bye for now!

Does Anyone Feel Like a Little Bit of Snow?

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Fuzzy white mohair yarn that look like snow, that is. I’ve used this yarn for little cardigan sweaters a LOT. I was wondering how much, so I gathered up my photos and made a little collection here. They are not all winter sweaters, but even in the middle of summer they’ve always reminded me of fluffy snow.

Rosy Sweet 2014

Softly Spring 2014

Now here’s some REAL snow… from earlier this year, thank goodness!

I’m not quite ready for all this yet, are you? I’d much rather look at fluffy white snow-like sweaters.

Thanks for reading along today. Have a fabulous Friday!

News & New

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I find that it’s a lot of work selling things on eBay. I spent most of the day yesterday gathering items, photographing them, and writing up the eBay listings, not sure if it’s worth the work for the little things, especially if they don’t even sell. We’ll see what happens. I may have lots to donate to Good Will. I think that it is worth it for the larger collectibles as these would not be appreciated (most likely) at Good Will, and that would make me sad.

I spent the this morning packing up five dolls that will be in their new homes very soon. That will make a total of 8 dolls that have started new chapters in their lives: Big Ann Estelle, Lark, Song, White Rabbit, Tamsin, Avery, Zsu Zse, and Anjali. I’m sure they are (or soon will be) very happy to be away from me where they spent too many days not doing much of anything; I am hoping their new families are happy with them too.

While these 8 dolls were very bored with me, there are others who are very, very busy. Here’s Gina with a new ensemble called “Pink & Plum Encore”. I used the smaller rose print which is second from the right. It is a shade deeper and the roses are smaller, but it is from the same fabric collection.

Just for fun, here are the two ensembles side by side. Because we are getting nearer and nearer to cool autumn weather, I made a slouchy beret for the new set.

The sweater and beret set are hand knit with mohair/silk lace weight yarn. The sweater is embroidered with two mirrored image rose bouquet motifs in coordinating colors. The slouchy beret has its own rose motif too.

Gina’s skirt features a deep tuck which overlaps fine English cotton Cluny lace with two hand made rayon bows sewn equidistant from the skirt’s center. These bows match the waistline ribbon tie on the dress. Gina is wearing light pink cotton Lycra tights to keep her legs warm. Sorry, they are hidden by her boots at this camera angle.

For more information on Gina’s “Pink & Plum Encore” ensemble, please visit my “Available for Sale” page at cindyricedesigns.com.

Talyssa’s “An Autumn Rose” ensemble is still available. My Talyssa is getting a bit giddy because she is anticipating that this will be hers to keep. Let’s not make her too happy; if she’s not sitting around naked I will not be motivated to make her anything new because she looks way too cute all dressed up.

If you’d like to bring this ensemble home for your Talyssa or Mei Mei mention the words “sorry Talyssa” in your contact form or email to me and I will give you a discount of $20 off of this set through the end of this week (through 9/4/15 only).

Here’s Talyssa for another look at “An Autumn Rose”.