Rain ! Glorious, sweet, refreshing rain, all night, all morning
and into the afternoon. Cool, crisp rain… We got the air conditioning off and
all the doors and windows open. Gonna enjoy it as long as it lasts.
I honestly believe that, for me, having a few bucks that’s all
mine can be a terrible thing. When you
really don’t have any to spend, you don’t worry about it, you use what’cha got
and drive on. When I have some funds, I drive m’self nuts figuring out how best
to spend it. And this is a day after I got the doll I had to spend two days chasing
down ! I am shameless.
I have enough in PayPal, thanks to PineCone Research, to snag
maybe a cheapie doll outfit or two kitchen-table clothes patterns. Possibly
three. Now, it can be argued that the last thing I need on this planet is yet another
pattern or any more have-fun-altering-it generic doll clothes, and I’d agree.
But… I still spent a pleasant two hours this morning digging through eBay and
Etsy looking at both. Luckily I don’t have more funds, or it’d be even more of
a dragged out decision. Especially when ya factor in I had an even more pleasant
evening last night harvesting about ten free patterns for ‘slim 16” – 18” ‘
dolls at Jenwrenne’s site,
Wren*Feathers. Scroll around, archive binge. You’ll find dozens. So far, those
look like they’ll fit DP&M, since
I’m getting visually familiar with their scale, plus these patterns are made
for dolls not too widely different from them. Selfish and shameless ! I want to
buy at least one pattern from her Etsy site, probably
this one. But I like three others, too…
I finally settled on a pretty Sasha
sailor dress from another seller – the Sasha
body’s not too different from DP&M,
so alterations should be easy – but for the price. I really hate paying more
than five bucks for a home-created pattern that just makes one thing. And it’s
not digital, I’ll have to wait for it to arrive and scan it m’self. Add to that
the fact that I’m going to have to alter it to get what I really want. Just
maybe I could use the same pattern to make shirt-dresses, another dress design I
tend to favor, but I’d hate to spend eleven bucks to find out that it wouldn’t
work, or alterations were impossible. Even though I eventually found it on her
personal website for $9., I was still reluctant.
I know I have sailor dress patterns. If nothing else, I have the Cabbage Patch one I made for Hi, Dottie and Timey Tell. At least two Barbie-sized
ones. And I just bought an AG &
clone pattern with a detachable sailor collar… Went on an expedition through my
pattern jungles around lunch. Glad I ate, it was exhausting ! Eventually
dredged up a Simplicity Carpatina
pattern with a simple bodice – if I recast it with the back to the front, that’d
give me a front button placket. From there, I could attach any type or fullness
of skirt I wanted. Hmm. Printed it out, ‘cause if it works, I just saved m’self
$9 to $11. !
It’s in progress. Hope to have a completed photo of it for you
tomorrow, but for now, here’s the work in progress. The pattern was waaay too
big – I’ve taken in a half inch on the back, another half inch from the
closures, a quarter inch off each side seam, then a quarter inch angled, and I
still have to change the armholes, they’re too long and too wide in the
shoulder. But even with all my on-the-fly changes, it’s looking pretty good. Very close to the shirt-dress I wanted… which
is basically the ones I wore just outta college. (happy sigh)
I think I just saved me about ten bucks ! (another happy sigh)
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