Hello and welcome to my doll journal! You'll find all of my doll ramblings here. It's possible that you may know me as Sadie or Laura. Both names are acceptable (though Laura is my legal name and the one I use for eBay and Etsy).

If you're into BFC Ink, Kurhn, A Girl For All Time, Carpatina, Karito Kids, Herstory, Maru & Friends, Monster High, Moxie Teenz, and other various and sundry go ahead and add me, I'll probably add back.

Additionally, if I've bought something from you or you've bought something from me and you wish to leave feedback (and it wasn't an Etsy transaction), this post is fine. :) I'll unscreen it as soon as I get an email! If you'd like to see prior feedback, please click on the link to my Ebay profile on the right-hand sidebar of this journal. It has my feedback as a buyer and a seller! Thank you for visiting! :)

I should dust off this journal, eh?

Last weekend I finally received printer ink. I'm not sure what's going on with them, but whenever I order bunny pellets they never arrive (lol?) and my original order of printer ink sat for over 10 days without shipping so I canceled it. Thankfully when I re-ordered it last Friday, it shipped, and I received it Sunday evening (but too late to use it that weekend).

Anyway, I purchased it for printing sewing patterns. I wanted to try hand-sewing something and usually, basic a-line dresses, nightgones, leggings, and slacks (not jeans) are good places to start.

That and it's hard to go seriously wrong with a doll nightgown, so I picked Clara by PemberleyThreads.

( Progress pictures under here. )

All in all, I'm very satisfied. The pattern is wonderful to work with, easy for a beginner to utilize. I'm definitely not 'Intermediate' with sewing (and some of the other Intermediate patterns out there give me Fear lol), but this one's friendly. The wrist sleeves were the most challenging aspect, and even then - only because I was hand-sewing. They would've been a breeze with a functional sewing machine.

If I remake this pattern, and I intend to, I'll do the wrists differently (thicker cloth elastic for the gather, the kind I have is too weak), and itty, bitty, miniscule stitches. Anything larger than miniscule doesn't allow the wrist to gather correctly. I'll also probably use a cute flannel because satin is satan misspelled. I definitely had to babysit the satin throughout the process.

Special thanks to Kalli for helping me pin and cut and donating the adorable lace embellishments.

I've missed doll hobby stuff so I'm currently in the process of dusting this place out. :) New entries... eventually! In the meantime, a quick update:

* Moved back to Colorado in 2016
* Finally got decent job yaaay
* Saving up with sakurablossom to have our things shipped (our dolls are in storage)

During the gap of all-things-doll, apparently my interests shifted. I've been spending a lot of time looking at 14" or larger dolls, such as BFC Ink, Double Dutch, Maru & Friends, and A Girl for All Time. Oh and Karito Kids, but I don't know if Zoe from New York will ever actually happen (long shot). She has such a pretty face though. Faces and eyes are really winning me over, as well as clothing options. Lots of lovely skilled people have made wonderful patterns for A Girl for All Time dolls.

I have a feeling everything's going to go in that direction, along with a couple Kurhn dolls of course. I can't escape them (nor would I want to).