Someone got a new doll and I was first to see her… you can be second! :o)
Barbara was thrilled to show me her pictures of Amelia Dawn! She’s a new Little Darling, painted by Magalie…and is Evianna’s big sister!
Barbara said she usually tries to pick the same coloring for her “family” dolls but that doesn’t always ring true in real families, so she decided not to worry about that this time. Isn’t she the cutest?! (YES, she is Barbara! Congratulations!)
Barbara
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Okay, now back to my sewing dilemma… Really, I was that close to tossing this dress in the trash can…I had no real desire to finish it if it was flawed, but I was going to take the buttons off first… However, when I woke up this morning, I had a different idea… but I sort of used the ideas that Marla and Nan had suggested.
If you missed it yesterday, I got almost all the way done with “Molly’s” dress when I saw a flaw in it… right on the very front… It was a tiny little flap in the fabric that didn’t take the color as it was printed onto the white cotton. It happened to be in the brown part, not on the white stripes… and it was just a white dot in the fabric… right next to the black rick rack…
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I still didn’t know what I was going to do, but I wasn’t going to just let it go…I was going to try something.
So this afternoon, after a dentist appointment, I decided I was going to take the mid-section band off, but leave the skirt attached to it. I had already serged my edges, so “that” was fun, picking all that out… then I had to remove that tiny row of vintage rick rack… and finally remove the skirt from the bodice. I felt like the band at the waist was a bit too wide so I cut off (from the top of the band) about 1/2″. I also regathered my bodice and made more of the gathers right under the bust area and not so much on the underarms area. This made it look better in my opinion.
Then I decided since it was all apart, I was going to run a second row of rick rack right over that flaw and then on the other side too. It became the design element of this dress. (Nan had suggested taking off the row of rick rack and moving it over the flaw…) The first row of rick rack was sewn up into the collar, but this new piece I added was just run up TO the edge under the collar and stitched in place.
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I was finishing up the dress, hemming it by hand, when I spotted ANOTHER flaw where the print hadn’t taken in a spot… this one was on the side of the skirt, and I decided to try Marla’s idea of using a crayon. (I was thinking about what to do at the dentist, so I went to the Thrift shop here in town and bought a huge bag of Crayola crayons in a big zip lock bag.) The bag had lots of different colored brown-ish crayons in it and I thought surely there was one that might be close.
Okay, so here is the spot on the side…
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I took my fingernail and got a tiny little speck of the crayon and laid it on the spot, then I used a piece of waxed paper and pressed over it with a hot iron. It melted in the spot… and was a pretty close match.
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It actually dried lighter than the picture I took right after I did it. Here it is a little bit later…
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So now, Addy is happy, I’m happier, and I hope you’ll be happy with the results too…
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The dress is all finished now… buttons on the sleeves, snaps down the back, it’s hemmed by hand, and the spots are dealt with. All is well in my sewing room, for now! :o)
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All is well in my sewing room, for now! :o)
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See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne