Christmas In February

 

Last month, after watching a tutorial on making Barbie dresses, I ordered a box of sewing stuff, as recommended, from Temu last month. My first order ever and now, I guess, my last.

It was doing icky things outside yesterday so were stuck inside all day and I decided to play with it and some dress patterns I had downloaded. My goal was to figure how to line the dresses because I hate the way the facings look when you just tack them down. The first thing I learned was to NOT use the machine part of the sewing machine but to just hand crank those tiny seams. I could get a nice straight and very close seam that way without the machine eating it up. 

I don't know if I have introduced Vanessa. She's going to be my designated dress form and here she is in my latest creation. She's not an actual Barbie but is Barbie sized. Every time I buy an actual Barbie to play with I love her so much that I end up putting her on display instead. Vanessa hopefully will cure that habit. 

Speaking of Barbies on display, look who showed up in the mail yesterday. She was a gift from Valerie. She had mentioned a while back that she had a holiday Barbie that needed re-homing and of course I volunteered. She's a vintage 1992 Holiday Edition and she's about as sparkly as any Barbie could be. I was gobsmacked when I opened the box. She's now in good company with my other holiday Barbies. I've got quite a gang.

And...she didn't arrive empty handed. The box was crammed full of trims and laces that will keep me busy for ages. Now I just need to master the art of those tiny dresses. Every one so far has turned out to be a bit of a horror but I'm learning so much from each attempt.