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

AG clothes for Faith's 5th BD

I sewed these and a couple more for Faith's Julie doll for her birthday which was the last week of March.   It was alot of brushup practice since I've not sewn in so long - I also tried my hand at a couple pair of shoes and they didn't turn out too bad.

Lea came on Feb 15, but there was some other disturbing things going on in our home so she didn’t get much attention that day.

Her snowsuit wasn’t finished and my Madame Alexander was modeling it.  I had no overall buckles so it’s still pinned on her.

 I had took this week off in order to watch the kids while Summer flew to Florida – She is back and I still have today and tomorrow off…so I tried to sew a Liberty Jane button up shirt and a skirt I found on Crafsty.  The shirt was pretty tough – It seems just like the ones Ma used to make me for Christmas.  I’ve never done a doll sized item that was done exactly like you do an adult people pattern before.  Except the buttons have snaps under them ( which was no easy task) but buttonholes would be nearly impossible in the space that’s allotted for them!

Ok….so this get up isn’t exactly appropriate for February in Indiana.  She arrived in her tropical sundress and sandals – that’s why I was working on the snowsuit.  I have another shirt cut out of the same fabric with long sleeves, but haven’t started to sew it yet.  I need to practice to get this collar right!!  also the long sleeves have cuffs with a button – so I’ll have to get to work on that so she won’t freeze her little sun tanned but off in Indiana!!  I found her a parrot so far, but haven’t hunted for the other animals that go in her collection – She doesn’t sit in a very ladylike manner, but at least her skirt does keep her neon green undies covered in this shot!

I so DID NOT get the rolled hem presser foot for my sewing machine figured out.  I was taking so long that I figured it would be easier just to pin and sew like I've always done.  I don't suppose the foot would handle sewing something like the armholes of this shirt because it has more than one layer of fabric with the back yoke which makes the seam allowance areas really thick for something like that foot.