Wow, I’m so surprised at the “I could have written this” responses to my last post. I honestly sat on that post for quite some time before I felt brave enough to share it, but now that I have, I feel like talking about it more! It’s always comforting to know that there are others out there just like me.
This morning’s message in church was about plugging into the power of God, and one of the ways we receive it is through the power of love. Well, my spirit has definitely been renewed just reading that we’re all going through similar things, and we all have our battles to fight. We have such love for each other, even though many of us have never met in real life.
The online community is such a powerful thing.
On that note, I took another baby step towards simplifying. Instead of going to a store and spending money on some cheap Made in China crap, I took some fabric and a sewing pattern and made a dress for Emma’s Baby. That’s her name – Baby.
{Emma was real original when she got the doll last Christmas.}
You see, Emma got a new doll and a gorgeous papa-made bed this Christmas, and included was several outfits made by Emma’s great-grandmother (my Mema). Well, now that this new baby doll (which Emma has named Princess) has wardrobe choices, Emma changes her clothes at least 10 times a day.
But as much as she loves Princess, Baby is her most favorite doll. So she asked me to make some dresses for Baby. ACK! I’m a fairly decent seamstress, but I have never made a baby dress, so I kind of panicked. Because if you’ve ever dealt with a two-year old, you know that you must finish the project they have assigned to you by the time they get up from their nap or they will flip the freak OUT.
Luckily, I did have a dress pattern that I had bought from Sarah at Bit of Whimsy Dolls last October when I had all these glorious plans to make all of Emma’s Christmas presents *ahem* – so I mocked up one from the original pattern and then figured out where I needed to enlarge it to fit Emma’s doll.
Lo and behold, it fit!
And then I made Emma a smiley face pancake for supper and she stabbed and ate the eye first.
The end.
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What a cute dress and what a super cute little girl. I love you Emma.
Wow–so cute and both Princess and Baby (and Emma) are lucky to have you! I have a whole tote filled with doll clothes that my mom made for my Cabbage Patch Kids, I just got it out for my little one and she is in heaven! These days with our little girls are so much fun!
Great dress, see it’s the little things that make the cherubs happy. Love that dolls hair.
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Love that dolls dress!! Oh how I wish I could sew… Thanks for your comment… I laughed till I cried!!
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cute cute cute! i wish i had me a cute little girl…maybe santa will bring me one for christmas this year?
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My mom used to make ALL my doll clothes for me :) Thank goodness I kept them all, so now my daughter plays with them. Because I can’t sew!! My mom is teaching my daughter, though, who just received her very first sewing machine. That way I’ll be surrounded by seamstresses :)
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Sitting in the tree, Baby looks to be very happy with her new dress, and her Momma Emma looks quite pleased, too. You have a winner!!
Gorgeous dress! Sometimes the little ones are even harder to make. All those tiny stitches!
Love the dress, the girl, the post, the pancake stabbing. Love it all! :)
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So cute. I think Emma needs a matching dress.
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I have that same apple fabric made into cloth napkins!
Also, can you be my mom? i want to stab smiley face pancakes.
Kelli,
I love the dress.
Love it.
And I love that you finished it during nap time
(to avoid a FREAK out!)
I love the pancakes.
And I love that you share.
Your highs and your lows.
You are a blessing to so many.
Thank you.
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You did an AMAZING job! It’s beautiful! Baby is a lucky little lady. ;)
And my daughter will be killing the eyes of pancake smiley faces in no time, I am just sure.
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heya, she doesn’t have that dress pattern pdf on her site anymore, I have a pattern for something similar actually, but have had a hell of a time with the elastic at the neck, how did you do it? Did you make a casing? It’s so tiny I have had a hard time, I tried the “applied” method but had the non-sew type of elastic and didn’t know it. Any tricks?
I’ll go ahead and email you with this, as well, but just in case someone else is wondering, I sewed a casing. Basically, Sarah left plenty of room in her pattern to sew the casing pretty easily, so I just extended that to fit Emma’s doll. If you have a hard time with the casing, I’d just cut it a little longer to give yourself plenty of room to sew it. Hope that helps!