Today, the front pockets are in, the long side of the legs sewn together and i've been working forever on pockets.

I ordered some Pokemon iron-ons on Amazon so that all the pants don't look exactly alike.

Really?

March 31 and it snowed last night!

McCall's 7379

I've been working on pants for Johnny.  Got 4 cut and am now convinced i need a serger!!  I've been over edging the pieces for hours and hours.  I wonder...if just because my sewing machine claims it can do 1100 stitches / minute...does that mean i should really be doing that?? ...it is a heavy duty and i've been pushing it hard!

I stopped by the pawn shop to see if they had a serger - figuring if I got the 30 day warranty that would be enough time to figure out if it worked right or not...NOT that I know how to work one...but i can scour the web for lessons of some sort to be ready when I do get one!  They didn't have one...they had a couple sewing machines - but no serger.....I saw one in there last time I went to buy a laptop (which I keep having to do because everytime I get one I give it to a grandchild!) but none right now...guess I'll just have to keep checking.

I did altho....get a cute little Nikon camera for 20$.  My small purse one has been broken ever since I went to Michigan and dropped it on the concrete trying to pose dolls with Dani....the lens cover always shows in the pictures....so this little one was cheap enough to try...and for like 80 cents he gave me a 15 day warranty...just in case it didn't work I'd bring it back.

It works fine...which surprised me because they had a big ole price sticker right across the lens...leaving adhesive behind when peeled off...and if adhesive gummed up in between the zoom sections it would be just as messed up as the one I already have!

It will work fine for a pocket camera due to the fact that hauling my dslr around everywhere isn't really practical...and i sort of don't like phone pix very well (not from my cheap LG phone anyways)

Here's a couple I took with it:

and now....2 more backs to overedge and then I can finally actually start sewing the pants!!

Blogger has an app on my phone

I hate typing on the phone- wonder if the computer has this app

https://www.etsy.com/listing/252144972/knitting-pattern-for-sweater-and?ref=related-7

I did not have size 5 needles and I know nothing of yarn types...so I did this in size 4 needles with what yarn was in the stash I got from Goodwill...didn't turn out too bad...but her hair is a whole other story!!

I found Velvet at the Goodwill.  I already had found Crissy on a past excursion - and Summer got me Mia on Ebay -

So here is one of my latest discoveries -

You can get the patterns here:  http://crissyandbeth.com/Sew.html

another discovery is that Simplicity must have sold 2 different versions of each pattern...

I had bought one one Ebay to dress Crissy when I got her...but just now discovered that I had bought the 15 1/2" version when I should have hunted down the 17 1/2" for Crissy...no wonder that dress was so short...but the bodice fit!

so now I print some pattern pieces and try to fix Velvet up as she is still naked.  Mia came in an ill fitting dress and could probable also use a new outfit...now that I have the size differences figured out I may be able to make the right dress for the right doll and get on with it.

I sat up way too late last night watching Outlander and trying to figure out how to make a Jamie and Claire Barbie....I have some patterns...but not exactly what I want to do yet and I'm not so good at adlibbing an existing pattern into something else....

searching the web I find loads of AG patterns and BJD patterns...but not so many Barbie...

so....I keep studying on ebay...I got these two off ebay together for $8.95 after shipping

I also found these for about the same price but haven't received them yet...the second one I would not have chosen, but since it was in a lot of 2 for a cheap price maybe I'll mess with it sometime:

I'm sure sometime I'll find just the thing...but not yet!!

I'm trying to do this - just the girl for now - I figure I'll have to use Barbie because there would be no Jamie if I used AG - I don't want to try to turn one of my American Girls into a Boy - I'd probably mess it up:

I still haven't found just the pattern I want to use....but I'll mess around with the ones I have until something better comes along!

AG Lea Clark at the Indianapolis Children's Museum

(clicking the pictures shows the full sized version)

I sewed Lea an outfit and took her to the Children's Museum.  

I wish I would have done the dinosaur digger one AND a pirate one because there was a great pirate exhibit.  

It was kind of hard to get her to pose well without falling into some gap that would require a maintenance man to retrieve her!  

I made her pants out of a thrift store pair of Eddie Bauer cargo pants - they turned out rather stiff and I had a hard time posing her in any sitting positions because the pants would make her legs spring out of position and she'd lay down or something 

Curt tried to help me, but eventually he gave up because she wasn't cooperating

In the long run we decided she was better left standing on whatever flat spots were available

Unless she could sit without being flat on her butt but the sitting pose didn't look too good.

She could straddle things IF it wasn't in a place were if she fell I couldn't reach her!

But for the most part we just used places where she could stand up.

Little girls at first thought she was a museum toy...but when I told them she wasn't they wondered why a grown up had a doll...if you check out AG blogs - LOTS of grownups have dolls...she's my photo model!

If we do it again I will definately sew the outfit earlier than THE NIGHT BEFORE the outing

I suppose our next trip will be The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.  I'll have to come up with some sort of Native American getup for her and I don't have any patterns like that right now....Although...I do believe McCalls sells one........

Sometimes the glass boxes they put everything in is a real photographic hardship.

Lea would have LOVED to gotten right in with Jack Sparrows effects!!!

I haven't been scrapping at all lately.  But here's what I slammed together for my dolly.  The center picture shows the pattern I used for the pants and shirt, Simplicity 4654.  

The headband was out of MCCALL'S #6451.

I wanted to do the AllDolledUp outfit I bought the pattern for, but that would have taken a LONG time and because I was working on it the night before we went, I settled for the Simplicity one (it's a tee-shirt pattern....NO collar or buttons =0(  )

Summer bought me the hiking boots (and a guitar) as an early Birthday present.  I really need to get her camera done, altho, I don't know how she would hold it to look like she's taking pictures.  I did not get any of the 'stock' accessories to go with her because I wanted to make them all - stuff in the AG shop costs WAY too much!!  I bought Sculpey clay to try to make her a Nikon D3000, but haven't even looked up how to use the clay yet.....oops