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.

Buying Dolls Just for Their Clothes

I've been watching a few YouTube videos lately, pretty much all doll related, and the other day I saw that a particular doll line had some fun clothes, and they were being sold ever so cheaply on Amazon.  Well when I saw the possibles of the clothing fitting some of my dolls, I thought why not give it a go - it was cheaper to buy these dolls with clothes on than by a pack of clothes or even make them which is what I normally do!

Two packages arrived

Out of the package, one had tissue paper wrapped round it, one didn't.

Flash boxes!  Front and back.  I have no idea who these people are. I am guessing some kind of boy band.  I actually have no real interest in finding out I have to confess, I just liked the clothes!

The dolls in their boxes.

Not sure what the poses are supposed to mean!

They both came with a stand.  Easy to take out of their boxes, the most difficult thing was their head as it was attached with plastic which was stuck in their head.  Why do they do this?

Out of the box.

The waist coat is what I was most interested in.

These trousers!

The shirt is nice too.   Oh and the bracelet has been nabbed by Helen Blythe.

Ooh ahh...

Their hair is pretty gross, all lacquered up.  

I washed the hair with soapy water and it looks better now. (But forgot to take after photos as I am not really interested in the dolls at all. They are a bit too girly looking to be boy dolls I would want to keep).  

But this waist coat!  So beautiful and well made, lined with press studs to close it.

The jacket a bit rumpled up, but again well made and lined.

Attention to detail with pockets

and little buttons.

The other jacket, also lined.  I will probably put some press studs on this, and maybe change the 'buttons' to the other side if they are removable.

 

Back of jacket.

I tried the waistcoat on Helen first and it fits nicely.

The trousers were too long though of course.

Kiwi Sindy tried it on next.

Lots of flowery stuff going on here.

She tried the shirt on and the trousers and they are a good fit.  The shirt sleeves a tad too long, but okay.

The waistcoat doesn't close on Kiwi Sindy.  

I will have to try on a barbie next to check the fit with her. 

I haven't tried the black trousers on another doll yet, but will do.  They will obviously fit Sindy, and I am guessing they will fit Barbie too.

Now who will the shoes fit?

Mini Kit suggested that Jake try them on.

He agreed the silver shoes were good, but he drew the line at trying the pink ones on!

Perhaps I will be able to paint them black or something?

I am guessing they would also fit Ken and perhaps Action Man dolls.  

So for a mere £5 each, I got some fabulous outfits!  The dolls, well, not sure what I will do with them, probably donate them to a charity shop at some stage.

For a £5 doll, I couldn't hardly believe how well they were packaged and the quality of the clothes! 

Thank you to Jay of Jay Dolls UK on You Tube for featuring this doll line that I would never have known about.  Like you, they were bought for the clothes rather than the dolls!  But at that price, well who could pass them up?!