Regardless, check out what the latest venture has brought about! I decided to pick a special few of these pictures and make patterns for them. In order to make it easy, I started with patterns that would fit 18" dolls ( Like American Girl, Daisy Kingdom Pansy Doll, etc.) ~ I will graduate these patterns to fit actual children soon. I think I will put them up on eBay or Etsy, just to once again justify my pasttime. Wood Genius may naysay, but in the end, hah! ~ these little pursuits do pay for themselves. But enough of this ~ on to the fun stuff!
And by the way, the line art is my own rendition of the actual item, sooooo, the last picture on here, you can see that uh, faces aren't my strong suit ~ at all.
This pattern is a little apron with a pleat detail, from 1927. I do not include the embroidery design with the pattern, for several reasons ~ first, these are doll's clothes, and I have yet to see very many people put the effort into dolls' clothes; second, they look just as cute without the embroidery; and third, maybe I will when I graduate the patterns to kid-size (I probably will), but for now, I am just too lazy. (Plus, you can always look up Aunt Martha's or VogueArt on eBay and get some cool old designs that way, and put them wherever and whenever you want.)
Another thought on these patterns, if you are really set on embroidery, get some old doilies or dresser scarves, lay the patterns out so that the embroidery lays where you want it to, and voila! Cute dolly clothes out of nice old fabric, complete with embroidery!
This is a cute little Bubble Romper, with pockets & button tabs, & can be used for both boy or girl dolls. These are what you see the Little Rascals wearing sometimes.
I love this little Panty Suit, circa 1928! The original picture says that the collar & cuffs are to be blanket stitched, but bias tape, or picot edging would look just as good.
This little 1927 Dress Coat and Hat is probably my favorite of all the patterns I made so far. I love the period detailing and the hat! I am making this one out of real fur and leather, as well as out of a fine wool chambray and faux fur. Now I just have to figure out how to make those boots! (Every 1920's Doll needs a pair of button-up leather spats!)
This pattern is somewhat simple, they used to call slips "white gertrudes" back then ~ I really don't know why ~ but aren't they so cute??
And here is a 1929 Panty Frock ~ it is suitable for both boys and girls ~ oddly enough, little boys wore dresses too, until about age 3 or so! The original ad for this said it was made out of flannel, which I think will make an interesting look.
And this final apron is so cute, love it, but WOW ~ I hate the way I messed up the face. How cheesy is it that I left it like that? Would it help to know that I redid the face 4 times, and that THAT was the final awful end?
Next post I will show pics of the finished items.
