Making doll clothes

I am getting to like making doll clothes. It is not so simple as it looks and even though or maybe just because I used to sew clothes for myself I hade to forget things. The order of the steps is just the opposite because it is so small. My attempts to sew a dress with sleeves has failed but I plan on trying again soon.
Taking photo´s of Kobi wearing the new dresses is also not so simple as I thought would be. We don´t have much light anymore and outside is rainy and wet and muddy. I have found that at noon the most lighted room in the house is the bathroom. Kobi is standing agains the bathroom door. But once the light is good she is a natural!


And of course for the photo´s I hade to get her shoes. Love this adorable tiny sport shoes



I have uploaded some of the dresses in my Etsy shop. The first dress is already sold and shipped!

Amigurumi

My first attempt at crocheting stuffed dolls AKA amigurumi resulted in a bear with strange eyes, a squirrel and an airplain. Amigurumi is an excellent way to use yarn left overs and I have lots of them because my mother-in-law knits for the children.
Denzel is almost 6 years old and already asked why does the airplain have eyes and mouth ‬
He is crazy about airplains and knows all about them.. you can imagine what a look he gave me when I accidently said it was a helicopter...

A new friend

Kobi was a little lonely so I had to get her a new friend. When she arived nude Denzel said her name is Amika so here is Amika:

In the first photo she wears a half amigurumi airplain I was making for Shaun

In the second photo Kobi and Amika are sitting on a styrofoam packagin material that I put on 4 empty thread spools. I am planing on making it a designers sofa for the dolls.

Amika has a lovely red hair but she will get a new hair that I have already ordered MOHAIR Strawberry Blonde curls:

Customizing Kobi

Kobi's customizing includes:

• sand matting
• sleep eye
• replacing one pair eye chips ( I bought a pair in etsy)
• replacing her eye lashes
  
• nose and lips carving
• new pastels make-up including Freckles
  
• sealing

She is beautiful but I am not 100% happy about it. I think I will change it soon. when I will start customizing my new doll. The new doll is going to get also a new hair. I would like a doll with curly red hair. Orders from the far east take so long to arrive that I need to make a big order by coolCat: eye chips, eye lashes and scalp. In the meanwhile I sew and crochet clothes and hair accessories.

Found old love again

Years ago saw photo's of a doll with a very big head, baby face and little body but I didn't pay attention to them because I was busy growing up
A couple of months ago I saw a photo of one again on a FB album of a friend and asked her what was the name of this doll that I remembered seeing years ago lots of photo's mostly in flickr.
She answered and added me to the Blythe group and the rest is history but I didn't have time to post in my blog therefor I must start at the beginning.
I always loved dolls of all kinds. I played with dolls long after all my youngers nieces found that dolls are for little girls. In the past weeks I am looking in flickrs account and blogs of blythe fans. I loved the idea of customizing the doll and of course clothes making.
A couple of weeks later I had my first Blythe a Bohemian Piece. Denzel, my son, gave her the name Kobi.



She is a nature beauty but Kobi doesn't look like this anymore. In the next post I will show what I learned about customizing blythe dolls and post photo's of Kobi's metamorphosis.