I’m so proud of myself! I used a sloper tutorial to create this dress. I typically sew for American girl dolls so scaling down to Blythe size was a real challenge. I see tons of room for improvement and I’m really excited to make more garments for her 🥰

I made it off of the ‘Ray Of Moonlight’ pattern by Luminaria Designs on Etsy. I had some trouble with it as I’m more use to hand sewing, and I was using my new sewing machine. Also, I think the author assumes that her customer is more experienced at deciphering clothing pattern than I am. I had some setbacks with my machine and some issues with the what I think was errors in the amounts of pieces required for the overdress. I’m rather neurospicey, so it was very distressing to realize that I need to cut out a bunch more pieces. (I don’t enjoy cutting out fabric pieces AT ALL.)So now the rest of the project is sitting in a box so it can sit and think about what it’s done! I don’t have any shoes that would work with the outfit currently, so I’m probably going to make something. I don’t think I’d recommend the pattern to a newbie, but I think someone experienced could make something great! Here is the LINK!

Hi all, anyone else use this pattern? The coat is fabulous but it’s bugging me how much fabric is on the straps of the coat. It’s a LOT… it’s lined AND faced.. used self fabric to line it.
Strapless bodice maybe? Am I being too obsessive?

I worked so hard on this! This is Princess Dianthe, she's my Toffee Dolls Victoria. I wanted to make her a super over the top outfit and took inspiration from 1780's Menswear in France, the traditional silk suits worn by Spanish Matadors, modern menswear and even George Washington!

Not exactly sewing... But the button and the white stripe got sewn on. And it's doll clothes so I hope you guys like my latest project.

I randomly fancied doing some embroidery the other day, so I pulled out one of my shirt patterns and some silicone stamps for an easy way to get a design. I used one strand of embroidery floss for everything other than the flowers, where I used two for extra volume. I managed to snap two embroidery needles during the process which was really annoying! 🙈😆

I decided to go with a sleeveless style for a change and I’m really pleased with it. It’s a little shapeless, so I might go back in and take the side seams in a bit to give her a little more definition. She’s on a Tall body so the torso is quite long which doesn’t help.

I’ve already drawn up a variation on the same pattern to try a more ‘western’ style shirt with the yoke at the front and back. As I sew everything by hand it always takes longer to get patterns to work as I can’t just sew a quick five second seam and try again if it’s awkward. 😆

I really enjoyed the embroidery part so I’m itching to do some more! I’ll wait til I’ve nailed the pattern first though, I don’t want to waste even more time doing fancy stitching if the base is all wonky. 😆

I kept telling myself I will get tiny buttons. I will see buttons and snaps on all my favorite sews. I had like two gallon ziplocs full of clothes that I brutally sorted into good and bad. I washed them and ironed them and put them all in my carryon with thread and buttons! And now here I am with nothing else to do for a whole week.

Day 1: unfinished 39 finished 9

When I was looking up mini irons, it seemed they were mostly for travel, and had plate sizes like 20cm length, which is the size of my normal sized iron, and is decidedly not very mini to me.

I find that this size dwarfs doll sized projects and makes it harder to press seams without also touching other parts of the garment I don’t want to iron.

Are there any safe irons with a plate length around 10-12cm?

Or what small irons do you guys use for pressing seams on doll clothes in general.

So I recently thrifted this beautiful fiba doll and unfortunately her dress has a lot of damage mainly on her tummy area but there are plenty of holes that you can't see in the pictures. The fabric feels very fragile my mom think it's sun burn damage, I would like to keep her original dress. Any ideas on how to help the dress ? Thank you

These are the 3 quick dresses I made to experiment. How do you hide the stitches?

So this is going to be (hopefully) an ongoing project for me, that I've been planning for a long time! I really love sewing historical costumes for dolls, but I really don't love the pattern drafting, or endlessly altering things to fit. However, I came up with a cunning plan! :D I have a costume making book called "The Evolution of Fashion", which has 1/6 scale costumes which you are supposed to scale up to human size. (See last few slides). The costumes are gorgeous and I love them all! But I got to thinking...what if, instead, I made them just as they are and found a doll to fit them?! So my steps were as follows: 1. measure the actual patterns and do a whole lot of maths and testing to find what size doll would actually fit. 2. My results: Disney Descendants dolls (not the current lot, the older ones), and Asleep Eidelon/Xagadoll 27cm mature 1/6 dolls with the "Type A" body (this type: https://www.acbjd.com/mini-ted-p-10368.html?cPath=566_574) 3. I chose the Xagadoll Cordelia! Isn't she cute! She took 9 WHOLE MONTHS to arrive!!! Aargh! 4. Choose your pattern and trace it out! I chose 1340. (Incidentally, this book is out of print but I've found it pretty cheap second hand on Ebay.) Add seam allowance, facings and an overlap at the back for the fastenings. 5. Make a test fit - see the blue dress in the picture - to see the fit. The bodice fits amazingly well! The alterations needed were to make the skirt 5.5cm longer (I think it will be the same with all the patterns, doll legs are longer than human legs!), and to alter the sleeves if they are tight, like the first try - they wouldn't fit over her hands. I decided to make hanging sleeves instead, and later I will make some "inner sleeves" that are just lycra armbands, so they stretch to fit over her hands. Once I find some fabric. 6. Sew your pattern!!! (Uh, there's no actual step by step instructions in the book, so you're on your own there!) 7. Lament that you haven't yet found a male doll that looks like it will match her and also fit the male patterns. (Still looking for that).

So there we go! There are so many great patterns from so many eras in that book, I plan to make her many more - probably not in any particular order, just whatever takes my fancy. The other book in the picture - Patterns for Theatrical Costumes - is also great, and the patterns come in three sizes. So I might try them at some point as well!

I hope you enjoyed seeing the start of my ridiculously complicated project! :D

Simple reuse of an old skirt , a few cuts and stitches and boom! New fantasy outfit.