Blouse (skirt not pictured)

I had to pull the blouse off-the-shoulder a bit because with the long black skirt she looked a bit too much like she'd knock on your door to ask if you'd like to meet Jesus. Anyway, you can see the frill on her top, which is the important thing because I added that to the pattern using my amazing skills.

(My stitches should be smaller, really. I suppose I need to slow myself down and become neater. But the fun!)


Anywho, the internet is showing me that the doll dictates the clothes, in that people make all kinds of ugly stuff for Barbie that they'd never put on an Ellowyne or the like. I suppose it's that the clothes a doll comes with determines who will buy it in the first place, which is why there don't seem to be many rock chick Barbie or whatever.

RESULT

http://fashionistabarbieuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/BarbieCorrieNielsen1.jpg

Finally my people get their own Barbie Ethnic Stereotype!

She Shall Have Music (Gothy Skirt w/Bells)

( crap picture )

Skirt is just a tube with elastic at the waist, which is a bit bulkier than I'd like but whatever. Black "velvety stuff" and the green lace are from an old skirt, then I put bells on the end of the green bits. I got the wee bells from an old pair of earrings. Pretty much the only good thing about going allergic to earrings is that I have all these old cheap ones I can take apart for embellishments for wee clothes.

When the skirt was for humans it had the green stuff on at the hemline, but I think it being over the black looks better. Plus bells.

Sewing Fail

Not a great evening for sewing as hems fell apart and nothing really went my way. The positive spin is that I am learning about fabric and which ones fray appallingly much. But there must be a way to work with them since people made clothes out of them in the first place, right? I shall internet and see what the wisdom of the masses suggests.