#dolligrafik

I've been knitting some tiny doll-sized mittens like this

But they're annoying to put on doll hands, especially the more elegant sculpts with separate fingers. So, I realised, I can just take some spare mtm hands; the boring pose is actually useful for once; and use a craft knife to reduce the peg a bit to make the hands more easily swappable without having to heat them up every time.

Put the hand inside the mitten, and just swap the whole thing whenever I wanna put on or take off the dolls' mittens.

I already use MengF hands on most of my dolls, and they're easy to take off without heating. So I'll just take off the regular hand and replace it with the mitten hand! The skin tone match doesn't really matter since the hand will be hidden under the mitten anyway.

Ta-dah!

I got this head without a body second-hand a couple years ago; I think she used to be a Cool Blue Barbie. I like the Y2K era Barbie aesthetic and face screenings, and I always found the Cool Colors dolls quite iconic, even though I never had any of them as a kid.

I originally put the head on a MTM body in some random clothing, and kinda forgot her standing on a doll shelf for a while.

I've been sewing a bunch these baggy pants with lots of details and excessive pockets, and I used this flower print fabric this time. The top with the shiny iridescent iron-on foil numbers is something I made a while ago, and it's been rolling around in my box of doll tops ever since. But then, after sewing the pants, I happened to try this combination of clothes on this doll, and she really found herself! I also made her a matching bag.

I think the cutesy flower print and iridescent foil numbers make this doll a bit more toyetic than my usual doll restyle aesthetic, but I think it suits her. I don't have a lot of "basic" blonde Barbies with her "main" face sculpts, because it would get boring quickly, but I think this one can represent the turn-of-millennium era and the Mackie sculpt in my collection.

Dusty pinks and teals.