Welcome to Robyn Emily Bennett

A friend dropped off a long awaited package for me.  Fortunately they picked it up from being left outside our house while I was away having more tests and appointments.  This package was held up in a local delivery depot for almost a month.  Such a dreadful delivery company I really don't understand why people still use them.  They were pretty unreliable before their name change, and are still unreliable, and this is in different places I have lived.  Not only that but they LIE about 'attempting delivery' when they have clearly not attempted delivery at all.  Fortunately the package arrived relatively unscathed considering how long it had been languishing in the delivery depot and possibly a van as well and the seller had packaged it really well.  It is a shame I forgot to take photos as she wrapped everything so nicely, it was like getting a present.  In fact she did include some gifts, hand care treatment, a face mask and a mini doll.

So here she is and what she wore to travel in.  She is an American Girl Emily Bennett with a hair cut but she told me her name is actually Robyn.  The little mini doll is a Rebecca with her hair cut too.

Such a cute face with the bobbed hair.

Mini Rebecca is wearing a Julie top and a handmade skirt/dress.

I redressed her in one of my hand knitted dresses.  The sun was very bright and caused reflections on her face, so her eyes look a little strange.

Here is Mini Rebecca, such a sweet little face. 

She got changed to have her photograph taken with Saffron in front of the roses.

Today Saffron had a chat with Robyn about her journey.

Robyn is wearing a knitted top I made a few years ago and a sewn skirt I made the other week.

I think this doll will go on a few adventures as I don't have to be too 'precious' about her as she has been well loved.  She has a few marks on her, and a stain on her body which I will try to remove at some stage, but in the meantime she just wants to go on with things.

While I am unable to do many mini things aka doll housing, I am enjoying the bigger dolls, and especially the American Girl Dolls.  

 

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.