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baby clothes > > > doll clothes

I can’t believe this only took me an hour. I’ve had a bin of Phoebe’s old baby clothes, and some thrifted items, sitting in my craft room for um, 7? years with the intention of turning them into doll clothes for Phoebe’s dolls. These are not the archived, save-forever baby clothes that are all in storage, nor are these the adorable heartbreakingly tiny infant clothes that I turned into her keepsake baby quilt (man I need new photos of that!) These are cute outfits that she wore that I loved the prints and didn’t want to send to goodwill.

I realized that I really enjoy sewing doll clothes from old clothes. I like to use the hems and other finished details so I don’t have to do all that teeny tiny sewing. And the fit is so forgiving with dolls. Maybe this will be the year Phoebe finally gets a doll tree with little presents full of doll clothes. I know I’ve typed those exact words before.

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fine, stay naked

After a few tries at resizing my first, very cooperative fox, this guy/girl is at least finally together. But has absolutely nothing to wear. Pants didn’t seem right, wasn’t in a cape mood, sweater dress was a flop. She’s moving to the back of the line while I can regroup. Also I was going to make this fox into my next pattern for the shop but it’s tricky! Body is pretty straightforward but that head is a beast. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just make a few for my etsy shop instead. So many decisions. Love her in this perfect foxy tweed from the thrifts. That’s probably only reason she’s not in my to-never-be-finished pile already.

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they’re changing! they’re changing!

The kids make fun of me over how panicked I get once Fall splendor begins. I need ALL the photo opps. I need to pull them out of school so I can walk them around town getting photos with every good tree. I’ve learned my lesson, I don’t need thousands of photos of leaves on their own, I need kids in all the shots so I’m not looking at albums of leaves when I’m in the old folks home.

Here I am almost falling off my bike trying to get photos

kids riding bikes in autumn

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kitten in a dress

I spent the day crocheting to try to shake off the weekend. I hate sending the kids back to school on Monday morning after a weekend that just wasn’t quite right. So I drowned my sorrows in some gold wool and a pumpkin spice latte.

Kitten likes her new dress. She herself is made from the Katie Kitty pattern from my book and an incredibly soft fuzzy felted angora sweater so she wasn’t really feeling the stiff tweed pants and bowtie I had planned. I still need to perfect my increases and decreases in crochet but I like how it turned out. She’s now a very soft, very huggable kitten.

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amigurumi hybrid

Part amigurumi, part “crocheted ball”, part thrifted sweater vest. This guy was a little troublemaker! But in the end I’ll call him a success. I’ve started on a second and already I think it’s going more smoothly.