This is my pattern:
This is my fabric:
This is a picture of my cut up pattern pieces:
The outfit I planned was for my daughter's new dolly that she got for her 5th birthday. Oh, I almost forgot!
This is Kanani. (Or Anani, or Nani..She has many names, this dolly)
Princess loves her doll. Nani instantly became part of the family the second she was out of the box. Almost as soon as Nani was out of her box, Princess asked if the blue dress was the only clothes she had. Typical girl behavior, right? So worried about the clothes and accessories before she and Nani had even gotten to know each other. After she had the dress off of Nani and was trying on Bitty Baby clothes (with no luck) Princess asked if we could get more clothes for the doll. I suggested we make some.
/I won't bore you with details of my attempt at the new shirt for Nani, because that went pretty easily...however, here is the tale of the cursed first attempt of making dolly some pants :0) /
So on our next trip to Wal-Mart, Princess picked out a doll clothes pattern and some Strawberry Shortcake fabric. Luckily, I already had the purple fabric in my stash, because after we had the shirt done and Princess saw how short the shirt ended up being, she decided that we also needed to do the pants. I agreed...I mean, we obviously can't have Nani showing her undies. That just wouldn't do!
So, I set to work on the pants, which weren't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. After jabbing myself a few times with straight pins and a couple of good bloody pokes to my fingers, we had the pants pinned, cut, and re-pinned. We were set to go! Then Princess noticed that Angelina Ballerina was on TV, and she abandoned me...the little stinker! Nani's pants were underway, amazingly enough with not a drop of blood on them :0) After reading the directions through twice, I tried to sew the pants. I ripped out seams 3 times, re-read directions, thought some very bad and awful things about the people who wrote those directions, and finally cursed myself for thinking that I could make pants. The darn casing for the elastic waist started all of my problems. By the time I finally got the elastic shoved through the casing and had that sewn together, I went to check on Princess...she had fallen asleep in the middle of the living room floor. So I decided that I needed a break too. I put away the pants and went to work on them again the next night.
After work the next day, I busted out the sewing machine, straight pins (my newest enemy....seriously, I should have taken pictures of my poor arms for when I forgot the darn outfit was pinned!), and pants. I read the directions YET again, and this time, for who knows what reason, they made sense! I started sewing, ripped out ONE seam, re-sewed, and BAM! We had PANTS! I was so excited, I went and put them on Nani, and they fit...and they stayed up....and they look decent! I danced in celebration...trust me, you will be glad that there's no picture of that.
Princess hasn't seen the new pants yet, but I'll take a picture when she does, and I will post the entire mom-made outfit then.
