Barbie Dress.

I’m going to squeak this entry in so that the month of August has something to show for itself! I’ve been busy with different projects, but really have been negligent with the picture taking, so tonight I finally put batteries in the camera, and took a photo of the Barbie dress that I made. When I was young, my Grandmother sent me a bunch of hand made clothes for my dolls, which made playing with them so much more fun, and I thought that maybe my girls would enjoy that. So first, I went on Ebay to find some clothes, but they were selling for $25 to $80 per lot, and the clothes looked tired. And some were just not cute. Then a light bulb went on, and I figured I’d give it a go making them myself. At the 99 cent Simplicity sale at Joann’s, I found some patterns for 11.5 inch dolls, and started with a dress from “Sewing Patterns for Dummies” (Simplicity 7073). It was straightforward, but still took me about 5 hours (yikes!) from start to finish. Hopefully I’ll get faster with practice!