Current Mood : Pressurized.
Aarrrgh.
Things started out today well enough – I finally put the new and newly-washed
fabric in the way enough so that I got it put away, with the ‘rag’ pieces
getting cut up and distributed and the good stuff getting a new home, mostly in
the tin doll house (which is getting
pretty crammed). That done, I got the rest of the Arena area cleaned up, which
made me wanna sew.
Since I have
two redone patterns to test, I grabbed Gloom Beach Frankie, the doll of the
day, and got to work. Poor thing. I’ve neglected her so badly, she still had
her sunglasses on from the factory ! Got those removed and made the thrice
reworked Pucchi Collective blouse stitched up from fabric I’m undecided about
keeping. It’s the same stuff I made that ‘hospital dress’ from last year. Well,
it fit, but the new version is much too tight, so I gotta redo it, and I’m
definitely dumping the fabric. It’s just too thin and fragile to work with. At
least I got the sleeves right.
From there, I
redrew the ‘pants’ pattern to actually be pants instead of shorts, figuring
that just lengthening the difficult part of the shape would be easy-peasy. Stupid me. I know these
pants have always had that weird kinda ‘keyhole’
in the front, but I couldn’t figure out where the fit was off. Crotch curve too
shallow ? Too deep ? Pulling at the front ? Pulling in the back ? I confess, I’m
new and fumbling at pattern creation, so I have no idea how to fix issues – and
frankly, I like my doll clothes to, you know, actually fit my doll. And look
good, if possible. So where and how was I screwing this up ?
Lengthened
the front a bit, and sewed more. The second go-round is what you see on
Rochelle. That laid down some of the ‘crotch smile’ wrinkles from Frankie’s
go-round, but the ‘keyhole’ remains. I am at a loss.
So I looked
up ‘teen girl pants’ online, to see how ‘real’ pants fit people whose legs don’t
rub together like a cricket concert. Again, stupid me. Evidently ‘real’
teenagers either don’t exist, or they only like to take photos of their butts.
Nearly every photo that came up was either some digital avatar somewhere, or a
butt shot, half the time in a bathroom mirror, always so charming. Even
catalogs were much the same. But I did see enough ‘keyholing’ and ‘crotch
smiling’ to think that’s just par for the course with pants. I still want mine
to be better, but I’ve quit beating m’self up about it.
So I’m gonna
take a break – just for a day or two – on my pattern, and work some of the ones
I have from other authors. Maybe they’ll give me the insight I’m missing. One
thing’s for sure, of the four patterns I have (including mine) for Monster High doll pants, not one of them
looks at all like the others. Even the lengths are different. So this should be
fun !
Oh, and once
I redo Frankie’s pants, you’ll get to see the outfit I made her. I had to redo
one spot so many times, the fabric tore, so I wanna do them again before I
submit photographic evidence of yet another fail !
Original Temporary Entry :
How do I fix
that weird buckle/shape thing at the crotch front…?
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