Summing up April - A Creative Month

April turned out to be quite a creative month, and I also feel like my love for my dolls has finally come back and I feel inspired again.  Oh how I had missed that.

Now I had been doing some sewing and knitting in March as I am working on a little wardrobe of clothes for a Corolle doll I will be giving my grand daughter for her birthday, but I won't include those as the focus will be April

I made this lovely little dress at the beginning of the month for my sweet Peggy Sue.

Of course every dress needs a little cardigan to go with it.

This cardigan started off as a dress, but I didn't have enough yarn, so I frogged it back and turned it into a little cardigan.  So that little almost disaster ended up a happy accident.

I continued making some clothes for the Les Cheries Corolle doll.

I may keep this one for myself, I am not sure yet.

This dress I ended up knitting on larger size needles by mistake, so another happy little accident gave Crissy a new dress...now I just need to find her some shoes!

I've knitted a few dresses for my American Girl dolls.

and a friend is working on miniaturising an 18 inch AG pattern for the Mini AGs.

This was too big for Mini Samantha

Too big for this OG Lori doll

But will work for Little Gem

I knitted another of smaller needles...

and it is a much better fit for Mini Samantha.  The collar/neckline still needs to be done on these, and they are supposed to have long sleeves.

Lastly this dress:

I almost finished another mini AG dress, but had to frog it back and start again, and I couldn't quite get it finished last night.

The Eclectic Company

A few of my dolls have been getting dressed for Easter & Spring.

The first four are my childhood dolls....although Tressy and Kiwi Sindy are replacements as my original Tressy got lost during one of our moves when I was a child and my Sindy was given away by my Mum.  Skipper and Barbie are my original dolls...slightly worse for wear, but very much loved.  Tressy and Barbie have on clothing that my Mum made, so they are very special and very much of the era they were made.  Skipper is wearing one of the original outfits she came with, although I am not sure it is an actual original Skipper outfit.  Definitely vintage though!  Kiwi Sindy (named as I found her in a charity shop in New Zealand in 2019.  I like to imagine she is my original, although I know she isn't as my original older than her.) is wearing a dress I made a couple of years ago.  

The jointed gals...all waving hello.

Roshni, my Madame Alexander Travel Friend Doll, Helen, my Blythe doll, Wren, my Makie and a Simone, Disney doll I found in a charity shop.  

The littlies... Sharlyn, named after my bestest friend, Little Gem, Madeline, and Little Dawn, a Tiny Betsy Doll and of course Nancy with her little bear.

All of them together.