What best to do on a blustery afternoon?

On this blustery, and definitely colder afternoon, Wren chooses some music to listen to.

She selects some of her favourite music and...

Sits back with her fit up to relax.

Elsewhere, some of the Friends are getting changed into Autumn wear.

My (still no name) Iplehouse BJD has chosen jeans and a sweater.

Miss No Name Not Supposed to be a Fakey Blythe has a similar colour top on teamed with a straight skirt and boots.

Helen Blythe very much likes the outfit she has chosen, especially as it has long sleeves.

Kiwi Sindy looking swish as teamed her outfit with some stylish boots.

Little Nancy is wearing the lovely dress gifted to her by Bella's Doll Clothes earlier this year and has teamed it with a little cardigan I knitted a few years ago.

The Five Friends all ready for the cooler days and nicely colour co-ordinated.

 

A New Dress and a Doll Size Comparison.

I made a little Blythe dress today and thought I would see how many of my smaller jointed dolls it would fit.  I selected four and lined them up to compare body size.

From left to right:
Vera (Kruseling), Gigi (Ruby Red Galleria), Wren (Makielabs), Helen (Jecci Five)

It is interesting to see their different sizes, and will be fun to try on the dress on each of them.

First of all I tried it on Vera.  It fitted quite well, and is a good length on her, although the arm holes were a little tight. This was a surprise as she was the only one it was tight on.

Gigi tried it on next and it fits her well, although perhaps a tad too long.

Helen tried it on and it of course fitted her as I knew it would as I have used this pattern before.

Wren tried it on last. I gave her some new glasses.  Although I prefer her in black, she lost her original black ones, and the ones she was wearing in the top picture were a replacement pair, but they were always too big, and they just keep slipping and falling off all the time which is a shame.  The only other pairs I had that suited her were a blue pair and a white pair.  She chose the blue pair and is having a little giggle about them.

She also found a pair of blue shoes to match the dress and glasses.

I am thinking I might colour the white pair black as they too fit her and I do still prefer the black on her, but perhaps I just need to get used to the blue pair.  Shame the replacement black pair seem to have been printed at a slightly larger scale.

Anyway, it seems Wren won the trying on competition as she declared she wasn't going to take the dress off!

 

Sewing Summary on Sunday

I've had a happy weekend doing a little sewing...

I made this little dress for Helen Blythe

During the week I made her a simple skirt and top.

Today I made Rose a pair of denim shorts and a little summery top

I took quite a few photos!

 

A New Dress for Helen

 

I made Helen a little summer dress yesterday morning just in time for Easter.  She is pretty pleased with it.

How hard can it be?

  Easy peasy, surely, everyone else does it!

Having tried unsuccessfully to sell my Jecci Five doll, I decided as she was a memory of my last trip to NZ, (Op shop finds!) I would keep her and get her one of those jointed bodies I had seen.  (The thought of having a new body really appeals to me at the moment, as I continue my battle with ever increasing pain!) I found one on Aliexpress, and decided to take the chance and make an order which arrived surprisingly quick.

I was surprised by the weight of the body.  It definitely wasn't light and flimsy.

I just unscrew these three screws right?

and then exchange the bodies?

Wrong!  Definitely not as easy as it looks.  The head was very difficult to get apart and I only managed 'just' to get it open enough to take the old body off and insert the new body.  My goal to also repair her eyelashes, by giving her new ones that also arrived with the package from Aliexpress was thwarted!)  I didn't want to force the head apart as I was afraid I might break it, and had already unfortunately made a couple of dents in the back plate on one side as I tried to lever the head open.  As for taking photos of these stages that was completely forgotten about!  So we only have the final 'ta da' moment.

Here she is showing off her new body in her pretty little dress I had bought from Bella's Doll Clothes a while back.  The boots were also in my stash from a some I had bought Sindy a couple of years ago, and they fit well.

Sassy Jecci

Change of colour of her eyes.

Shame about the eyelashes....