Dolls' clothes day

[wiseheart]

I've been working on the trousers of the boy doll. They are a pair of striped dungerees, with a large breast pocket situated in the middle, with a sealing ship motif on it. I've finished the front of the trousers and cut out the back part. It's fairly finicky work, with lots of small details, but as I don't have a headline for it I can do it as fast or as slowly as it comes. *g*

Today it was slow work, which took me the most part of the morning; that there were several things on the telly that I wanted to watch didn't help. Also, we had laundry day, Mum had her weekly shower (always a somewhat complicated process) and I had to cook, too. So, writing got short shrift again; perhaps I'll manage to do my obligatory two sentences in the middle of the night like yesterday.

At least cooking was fun. I've upgraded my Käsespätzle with some canned tuna and tomato puree, and the result was surprisingly... Italian, I'd say. Add to the fact that we finally consumed the last of the (fairly horrible) red champagne left over from New Year's Eve, in lieu of red wine (which neither of us likes), and we had a somewhat mediterranean meal. ;))

Social life was reduced to a (lovely) text message from the_wild_iris, who has finally received my Christmas card, so that was nice.

Comments

[meathiel]

How big are those ragdolls?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Slightly bigger than a Din A/4 sheet.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay making clothes! :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I am not very good at it, but what I lack in skills I make up for with sheer determination. :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

You go, girl!

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

I’ve been thinking about your dolls for ages. It was when you said one of your dolls looked more masculine than feminine and you wondered if girls would like that. My mum’s favorite doll when she was a child was a boy doll, with short blonde hair and blue eyes. She named him Heinzi. She tried to get me to play with him, but dolls always icked me (I found them creepy) and I didn’t like playing in the spider-infested shed that was designated the “playroom”. I liked soft toy animals, like teddy bears, so I might have liked soft, sewn dolls. Just a weird thought that has been percolating since you described the boy doll you made.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have made my fair share of soft toys: teddy bears, cats, bunnies, etc. I just wanted to try something new. Animals are a lot easier, though.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Cute!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

🐻 :)

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I've always been more of a stuffed animal person than a doll person myself.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Me, I always loved and adored dolls. We were horribly poor when I was a child, and Mum always made the clothes and knitted the cardigans etc. for my dolls; that was the most common gift for Christmas, and I loved it. (Well, she knitted stuff for me, too, but that's another cup of espresso.) In fact, three of my dolls used to be hers and are well over 80 years old by now.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I bet they're collectors' items now.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I once saw the sister of one of them in a museum!

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I used to have plastic Charlie Brown and Lucy dolls when I was a little kid that were older than I was (they had belonged to my older cousin before me) that i loved and I saw the same ones in a toy museum a few years ago.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

The little trousers sound very cute. At least sewing with fabric will be easier on your fingers than felt.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

True. OTOH, fabric tends to fray on the seams, so I have to put in extra work to prevent that, so — something gained, something lost. But the little trousers are taking shape now. I've added two identical back pockets and some turquouse cross-grain ribbon for the seams and am content with the outcome so far.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Cloth making for ragdoll boys, how cute is this! Daughter mine always wanted a boy doll. When Zapf finally decided to do one, she was too old for playing with dolls but had THE ONE on her next Christmas wish list. She still has the doll. Elsa did not want it, until her aunt told her that the doll would always belong to her. Now guess what Elsa tries to take back home each time she´s here for a visit!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Now, why am I not surprised? *g*

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I've never had red sparkling wine.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Trust me, you haven't missed a thing. It was horrible.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

That bad, huh? I like sparkling wine and I like red wine (I happen to have a glass right now) but I guess it's like two good things don't always combine.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I generally don't like wine; I get a stomach ache from it. But this... thing had no taste whatsoever, aside from the alcohol, and I'm not a drinker to begin with. An eggnog at Christmas is my limit; and for New Year's Eve I usually buy "kiddie champagne", which is alcohol free. This abomination was a well-meant gift for Mum's previous birthday.