Current Mood : Pleased.
It occurs to me that I’m in
a unique position to view behavior similar to mine, but one remote over. When MH first came out, a lot of previously devoted
Barbie collectors were interested, some were obsessed, and a lot of fans ended
up choosing sides. I completely abandoned Barbie for these new upstarts, and it
looks like history repeats itself, especially with dolls. There’s now a big
push in Ever After High fandom, with
quite a few MH fans abandoning ship
for EAH. Now I get to see how the
Barbie fans handled it (if I remember correctly, it was mostly ‘If we ignore it
enough, maybe those (negative/offensive description) dolls and their fans will
go be (negative adjective) elsewhere’. Or, at least, it seemed that way at the
time. It was probably closer to, ‘Cute ! Have you seen the new Silkstone vintage-mold
Twilight exclusives designed by Bob
Mackie available only to Barbie Secret Golden Circle members ?’, but I am sort
of harsh and a little bitter.
Mostly because I paid eight
bucks to get that darn Headless Headmistress pre-order delivered, and UPS
handed it off to the postal service, despite the fact that it was less than 30
miles away for the last two days. If I’m lucky, I’ll get it tomorrow, I may
have to wait ‘til Monday, if they decide to just issue a slip. I wouldn’t be so
annoyed, but our TRU, the brick and mortar store less than three miles away,
has had a shipment of the dolls in since Thursday, and yes, they’re still in
stock. I’m so glad I pre-ordered ! I’ll be lucky to get it tomorrow, since our
PO would rather leave paper than packages, and by the time they deliver here,
the branch has been closed for hours.
So frustrating. Took my mind
off things with some sewing. Just wasn’t into MH, and while I have tons of other projects ready for my attention,
I decided to take the one that’s waited longest – sewing my own Timey Tell
jumper dress ! I’ve wanted to re-make that nearly as long as I’ve loved Timey.
I had no idea how I was gonna do it, but even if today’s efforts were a total
fail, I’d at least know what didn’t work
!
I always thought the easiest
way to create a new pattern would be to take an original dress apart, but
although I now own three Timey dresses, I just can’t make m’self rip one up. So
I pulled out our lightbox and tried to trace the worst of the three dresses –
it’s still in good shape, just looks faded next to the other two – and figured
I’d take measurements, compare them to the tracing, and go from there. Unlike
other similar outfits, this dress has a shoulder seam right at the top, instead
of along the underarm. I have no idea why.
Anyway, in about an hour, I
had a bodice pattern that worked – only took two tries ! First one was too tight
in the armscryes, and that was easy to fix. Bodice isn’t perfect, but it fits,
and just to see how it’d go, I gathered a skirt (again using the original’s
measurements) and attached it. Yaaay ! I now have a Timey jumper. Now for the
hard part – the sleeves and the front piece. While the original looks like a
jumper over a blouse, it’s one piece, like many Mattel garments. I have some
vague idea on the sleeves, but that ‘blouse’ part is a total wash. I have no
idea how I’m gonna do that.
Probably like I did the
jumper. Hopefully tomorrow ! While I'm waiting for a package to arrive...
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