Betsy, Vintage Ginny, Ginny decked out!

Here are dress patterns I have completed for these dolls.  Betsy McCall is Brook's; she is 8" tall. Vintage and modern Ginny are also 8" tall. 

Ready for Embroidery

I think it's a go; ready now for embroidery!  Off to bed for me...

8" Betsy McCall

Brook's doll, long-awaiting a knitted dress....

Another crying baby

Boy, dolls can be so demanding.
Second baby decided to cry from the bookcase (tongue in cheek, ya know) and so she got a dress today, too.  All the pleas in the world wouldn't matter if my hands weren't cooperating today.....she is 2" tall so this one was pretty tiny going---but no booties!
Yea!

Crying for clothes

This poor little babe came to me nekkid-----along with three others. A friend and I send stuff to each other and I begged her to send me a few dolls who needed clothing.
While a serious collector, she has often taken pity on dolls like this one. Last night this one cried for clothes and this is the end result. Doll is approx. 2 1/2" tall.  Booties are shorter than 1/2" long. Don't plan on making any more of THOSE any time soon! ha ha
Size 10 steel crochet hook with size 20 crochet thread .

How to Remove Rust from a Bike

  All it takes is aluminum foil, water, and a fair amount of elbow grease.
Here is the link; this works well and is cheap cheap cheap!

Happy cleaning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4dmZrXXN-k

Old friends

Here is one of my old Ginnys.  Not vintage, mind you-----that Ginny has a different look...here is the dress I designed.  Working now at writing out the pattern....

Four Dolls Dressed

Here are the four EFA dolls in their knitted dresses. I am trying to find a way to add the PDF file here for you to use!

Here are the gals...

Update, Sept. 1, 2015----these girls went to two homes, sold to two doll-collectors.

I might make more someday------but they'll look different; these really did grow on me in the nicest of ways.

Coming along....

 

Several years ago, I tried my hand at EFA (Edith Flack Ackley) dolls.  These are a small version of her dolls....9.5" from head to toe.

I was never happy with the hair I'd done.  So they went to live Elsewhere.

In the meantime I'd found how to make nice wigs of mohair yarn.  So, I was fortunate to be able to get them home from Elsewhere.  Now they are getting dresses.  The wigs are crocheted in mohair and sewn on. The shoes are painted on. The faces are embroidered.  The brunette has crocheted braids, which means no stray hairs can come undone.

There are two more to be dressed.  So exciting!

 

birds at dawn

The BBC did a great documentary on birds at dawn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owbzsDEl1pk

Other than a few commercials, upload it to just play as you go about your day cleaning or whatever.  Brings the outdoors in without the flies or allergens! ha ha ha

weather and other items of interest

A storm came up about 30 minutes ago.  I rarely go out in this type of weather---but it was so beautiful that I was drawn to.  It cleared off, left a dull gray sky, and now a gentle rain.  Severe weather warnings surrounded us but oddly enough, our town wasn't in the mix.

 

 

Below:  These are EFA (Edith Flack-Ackley) dolls----well, the style is.  I made them a few years back but could never decide what to do about their hair.  Crocheted mohair seems to be a good answer for me. The auburn one on the left has a "high bun" in the back.  The braided wig strands are actually crocheted so no little girl can accidently pull them out of the wig.

Did I mention I have issues with cloth doll wigs? ha ha ha

I designed a Ginny doll dress pattern that only needs slight modification to fit these EFAs.  I'll post pics of them again once they are dressed! 

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These squares were crocheted for Bridget's Cradles.  The one inch hearts are a ton of fun to make!