Doll clothing self-challenge: Clothing Storage (pg. 21)

[Salli]

Bewild, I LOVE that skirt! I am obsessed with lace overlays. Obsessed!

Maddie, if your machine was from 1858 you could still get a part for it seriously those old ones are SUPER heavy but they are AWESOME. Totally worth fixing if you can

I need to add making some things for Monster High Spirits Week on the Night Class competition (crazy hat, pj's, letterman jacket for a prize, etc...) while making these things 

[Loona]

Loona:
Your stuff looks so professional! I am so impressed! I want some! Great job on all of it

oh thank you! 
but I must admit it looks less professional on the back side. originally I just wanted to cut the tulle in half (apart from the top), and was already in the process of sewing when I realised it either won't fit, or it will have a hole at the back side of her bottom I'm quite of a thighs-person, so I know there usually is an additional little piece of material, but I thought "duh, I can do without". no I can't and as I was already in the middle of the process I couldn't insert the material exactly to the middle, so it's a little to the left. but I guess it's OK for a first try ^^ and noone will see it once that dang dress will be ready (it stll isn't  ).

your kilt looks amazing! and the socks go lovely with it, it looks like your guy wears them with pride ^^

@bewilderness: thank you! so does your skirt! I love the lacey pattern, but I can believe how it made things a little more difficult. I was about to go for a rather similar skirt originally (a single-coloured underlayer with lace on top), before choosing to go for the dress instead.

how did the sewing lessons go, Maddie? it sounds awesome that one of the other teachers offered her help, how kind of her ^^

[hannaliten]

Oooh, I need to join the next challenge, I have quite a few naked dolls sitting around.

[justkitter]

I should join too.  I just fell in love with a Bratz shirt that I will NEVER find, so I think I might try to make one......

[hannaliten]

I have my 2 naked Freyas (yet unnamed) and 2 Hujoo Berry girls coming. Then I have 8 or 9 MH in various stages of customization. So, my new machine will be fired up shortly!

[bewilderness]

Thanks y'all!

Oh cute skirt Bewilderness! I'm assuming sewing lace on there is pretty hard? I haven't tried anything with lace yet.

Sewing the lace on wasn't too bad, but I didn't measure it right or something, because there ended up being more fabric at the bottom of the skirt than lace, and it made the fabric bunch up in places.

[NovelNerd]

Salli: I'm having trouble finding a part for my make if the machine. The home ec teacher at school informed me of where to hunt down a repair man that might be able to get a part for me. He is two hours away though, so it will have to wait till I can make the drive. I'm kinda putting it off at the moment since I just had to fix the wife's car.

Bewilderness: Short lace or not it's pretty cute. Did you sew the lace by hand or machine?

[Vertefae]

Have you tried to find the part online? I was able to order parts for my 1940s Singer.

[NovelNerd]

Yep I've been looking and I keep finding ones for my brand but not the model. Are there any particular sites that are better for finding older parts? eBay didn't have what I needed, so I started random google searches.

[bewilderness]

Bewilderness: Short lace or not it's pretty cute. Did you sew the lace by hand or machine?

thanks!  I sewed it on with the machine.  I'm not great with sewing machines, but I think it was easier doing it that way than by hand.

[Salli]

I bought my big vintage doll some white tights in the baby section at Target. I need to get her photo taken. I did get a few stockings done this challenge but not as many as I'd have liked. I never did find one of the fabrics I wanted to make leggings out of for my Tonner doll, Dalice.

How does everyone feel about having the 'tops/shirts' challenge be a 3-week or 4-week long one?

[Vertefae]

3 would be long, but some people might need it that long

[Salli]

We can do 2 weeks if we want, we'll also be doing a really easy challenge after that How about we shoot for 2 weeks, and as we get closer, we'll see it we need more time?

[Vertefae]

Sounds good to me

[Loona]

I agree, let's do 2 weeks at first, and we'll see if we need more

I'm really looking forward to this challenge, I already have a top three tops in my mind that I want to make, I already bought some things I need for it them, now the only thing I'll need is time
also this week another nude and bald Moxie Teen came to live with me, claiming some clothes, so from now on I have two ladies to dress up, let's hope I'll stand the challenge ^^