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The pattern was for a wedding dress, so obviously I did it in red so that it wasn't. It took ages with all the hemming and whatnot, and then tonight I had to alter it to actually fit the dolls. I'm glad I did and that I did not just give up. My BFF told me how to make it fit properly. Because I don't know enough about sewing.

Model is nameless, she is an older head that I shoved onto a Fashionista Nikki body. Maybe she is called... umm... Trisha? Idk!

Anyway, it was a lot of sewing and possibly the most complex thing that I have actually finished. So weird as it may look I am pleased with it.

I successfully swapped dollheads! I had these fears based on childhood that I'd break the attachment thingies trying, but I persevered anyway and Summer has now been swapped with one I've decided to call Savannah (yeah, most of them have no names, I'm working on that). My reasoning was that Summer is a bit too Smiley-All-American and Savannah has a bit more mystery to her expression by which I mean any at all. She has really long straight hair to her waist, which is impressive because it means she's avoided all my attempts at hair styling. I can't remember when I got her, it was a few years ago.

I just really like the Fashionista bodies because of how they can at all move. Now I have a magical hybrid doll that maybe nobody else has, how nifty is that?

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

Finally my people get their own Barbie Ethnic Stereotype!

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.

Pls to ignore that the coat and the dress don't really go together, it was that or BARBIE NUDITY.

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I used this pattern mostly, but a bit different because I didn't really know what I was doing. It seems to be a bit like making a dress except the front is open rather than the back. Fabric is from an old dress that didn't fit me anymore.

The dress is made from awesome black-with-glitter-and-shiny-squares (technical name) which is a bit of a bitch to get a needle though but it's really pretty so probably worth the struggle.

What I learned:

- Coats should probably be lined with something, since you can see inside them when they're open.

- Sleeves don't need to be as huge as I feared, but they need to be wider than the doll's hand at least.

- Pretty much everything needs to be hemmed.

Not Sure About:

- What colour of thread to use for multicoloured things?

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a red frock, which is fancy

Off With Her Head!

RESULT

Blouse (skirt not pictured)

Coat (plus dress I suppose)

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