| I have found myself very busy this fall. My children are so busy with sports and ballet recitals, and my mother is very successfully having her cataracts replaced. I am so impressed with how well her surgery is going...she can see again. We go in tomorrow for her left eye. I have been traveling back and forth to help her out, and will be settled back home by Thursday, and I hope to get back to blogging at that point, but for know, I will quickly show you who I have been working on. I am trying to get some dolls done for sale, as I am planning on attending the IGMA show next year. These two little ladies will go in my sales box.  |
| Two new girls for my sale box. The red girl is Poppy and the pink girl is Eliza. |
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| Poppy has a green coat, but I love her little red dress and I think I will leave her coat off as a piece of her wardrobe. |
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| Eliza has a removable collar that is tied on. The pink in her pinafore is a lovely shell pink and does not show up in the pictures. |
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| Eliza has pantaloons and a slip made of white cotton, knit on 6/0 needles. Her dress is also knit in the same manner and is tied at the back. her hat and collar are tied on . I usually tie garments on and apply a small drop of glue at the juncture. This allows me to break the little seal of glue and remove the garment when I want. If I am intending to make a full wardrobe -with two or more dresses- for one of my dolls , I leave the strings long enough to retie , but if the doll is to stay as is, I clip the strings to an appropriate length. Eliza has a pinafore made of a very fine linen, which is lovely, but hard to knit. |
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| Poppy has pantaloons, a slip and a little red dress,knit on 6/0 needles . I have embroidered little flowers on the bodice. She has a green silk hat and a "carpet bag". Her green coat still needs some work...I think that I will add a black collar and some little bead buttons. |
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| Eliza |
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| It is hard to get close-ups of their tinny faces!
Have a wonderful week,
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