Current
Notes: Crazy In Love, Conway Twitty.
Woke up to snow on the
ground and in the air, had lunch with sleet, and cut fabric to thunder and
lightning. Wow. My life’s a lotta things, but it’s not boring for long ! Even
the weather’s exciting.
Yes, you read right. I cut
fabric today. Found a simple dress pattern for a Crissy doll dress scanned from
one of my old doll magazines, and decided to go for it. Evidently Crissy had
much smaller, shorter hands and arms, because I could barely get the bodice on DP&M Belle even after I narrowed the
seam allowance and ripped out the original stitches. Also the neckline gaps a
bit, and doesn’t lie flat against her shoulders. But I can alter the pattern in
the right places, no problem. For a first attempt, today’s dress isn’t that
bad. And it used up nearly all the yellow thread, and the bulk of the remaining
fabric. Only cutaway pieces and a single twenty by eight inch strip of that
print remains. So you may still see it, but I don’t think there’s enough for
another Belle dress, unless I make the bodice from a different piece, or alter
it to be cap sleeved. That strip’s long enough for a skirt, though. And the
pieces could make a matching pair of shoes, easy…
But I was thinking as I
sewed – probably why I don’t sew when I most need to – that some of the same
things I did with MH, I was now doing
with DP&M. Haunting eBay.
Planning what next to buy. Searching for patterns at least once a day. Daydreaming
of what next to create. Justifying buying craft supplies for those potential
creations. Thinking of buying a less expensive doll I didn’t really want to
score clothes/ shoes/ accessories for a favored doll. Touring dollar stores for
knockoff dolls for the same reason. May actually take Belle with me to my next
Mal-Wart trip, to try on shoes and stand next to a $10. doll that may become a
dress donor. I think the last doll I took shopping was years ago !
It made me miss the days
when I was insane over Monster High.
Just four years ago, since I’d been crazy since I first saw the preliminary
photos the winter before they were officially released. Now I don’t even
wheedle to go down that aisle when Beloved Hubby’s in a hurry at Mal-Wart,
there’s nothing there to interest me, and I know it. I don’t even hold out the
slim hope of finding Slo Mo anymore, although he’s been found in Switzerland
this week. I still love what I have but… barring something amazing that’ll kick-start
it, I can feel my interest moving on.
Luckily for my
perpetually-thin funds, most of the DP&M
accessories have been sold out for some time, and are very expensive on
eBay. While I may occasionally luck out on dolls, the clothes I most like are
$35. or more with shipping, and I don’t spend that much on my own clothes. So I
have excuse to make my own – and a running start with Crissy patterns (provided
I make sure the arms will fit).
Wonder where my weirdness
will take me to next. Oh, that’s right, I already know. Duct tape doll shoes ! ☺
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