#dolldleoddle

So have this:

Part 1

This is the inspiration! Black dress with puffed sleeves.

This is not a tutorial, you would definitely not be able to follow my words.

I again began with a sketch to get my plan ready – it was after dinner and light was slowly fleeting.

The bodice is a small rectangle of black cotton I hemmed, pinned to the doll, created darts to fit the bust (I had to created the illusion of tight-fitted smocking), then used a random stitch to get the look of smocking.

I then took a much larger rectangle, and hemmed it. I was two thirds of the way through when my bobbin ran out of thread without my knowledge, so I rethreaded that. I then ran a running stitch along the unhemmed edge, to pull gathers that I would then pin and sew onto the bodice.

I then sewed 2 6mm snaps onto the bodice, and pinned the skirt section to see how close it could be before not fitting the doll. The back was sewn together by hand, because my machine's arm is a bit too large for tiny doll work.

I tackled the sleeves last, as I was the most scared of them. I sketched the vague shape of a bell sleeve with chalk, and cut two out. I hemmed the top curve by hand as I feared the curve to be too complicated to maneuver with a machine. The bottom hem was done with a machine, as was the elastic, zig-zag stitched on as Micarah Tewers warned me. To affix the arm to the bodice, I ran a running stitch across the top (in order to pull it into more of a puff), then stitched it in one section of the side.

Bam! Here dolldie is, wearing the black dress. And holding the red dress as seen here!

Thanks for joining me :D

I'm a shitty seamstress but I want to share with you the process of creating the dress for my recent Instagram post!

I'll start with comparison of dolldie and dodie – I didn't aim for complete accuracy, but something I was satisfied with!

At first I was worried I wouldn't have enough of the correct colour, but after comparing with the doll, we were good to go.

The construction of the top didn't go exactly to my plan, yet still worked out. Sewing tiny hems is so much more difficult than human-sized, so I often improvise. The sweetheart neckline did not hem the way I intended but we powered through.

I then traced a circle onto the rest of the fabric, hoping it would create some kind of skirt. The pinning pricked me multiple times, I ended up with dry fingers. Sewing the skirt onto the bodice was hard, as the bodice was larger than the waist of the skirt, so I folded some darts to fit the waist – again, definitely not a professional doing this

But there you have it! dolldie and their new dress. All hand-sewn because I was too lazy to thread my machine and wind a navy bobbin.