Here's my "Vintage Cloth Doll" group challenge doll, if you can call her that since I didn't finish her on time. I finished her over the weekend, a mere nine days late!
She does have knickers underneath, but how and where shoes will ever be provided for her, I do not know.
She absolutely insisted on being Alice in Wonderland. With red and white striped legs--non-negotiable. After that, it's all a blur.
Whenever I look at her, I want to make her a new dress because that blue is really too dark for her. But I resist the urge because I have TOO much fabric! And I want to use what I have, I don't want to buy more if I can help it!
I didn't have any ideas for designing the pinafore, so I adapted an old Sears promotional pattern I acquired somewhere. It was part of the promotion for the Disney Cinderella movie when it was first released in 1950. Housewives would get to feel like Cinderella when they stitched up an apron just like Cinderella's in any of the fancy fabrics shown--only 58 cents a yard! (The bib part is my addition.)
That Cinderella wore this apron while being ordered about like a drudge by her family is not part of the Sears apron fantasy.
[this is good] Woo hoo! But is she really finished if she doesn't have shoes? Are those toe socks?
Posted by: reikidolls | 03/10/2008 at 02:29 PM
But shoes might clash with her legs! Pale pinky-grey-beige is a tough color to match. I love the idea of toe socks--yes, that's what they are!
Posted by: Ruth Wilson | 03/10/2008 at 03:42 PM
[this is good] Wow, I recognized right off that she was Alice! Good job!!
Posted by: Auntie Bunny | 03/11/2008 at 04:48 AM
I love your Alice in Wonderland doll. She is beautiful! Well done.
Connie
Posted by: Connie McBride Johnson | 03/18/2008 at 07:12 AM
[this is good] Beautiful! Great work.
Posted by: GiftedGrandma | 09/17/2009 at 01:08 PM