...5.27...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...y'all have already seen the athletic sock update in my lap in the car...but I had made Sissie a new dishcloth...just using the leftover yarn from those tan socks I'd made a couple of years ago and had to buy a whole skein of yarn to finish them...so it's kind-of an odd colour for a dishcloth...

...and I found a nice hefty mug with her initial on it...and got out the traveling card...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...4.1...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...Little Sissie's Birthday present is finally on it's way to Alaska...

...I sewed her tutu back together...

...and I found this Free Girl’s Leotard Sewing Pattern over at Bonnie and Blithe...and I also found a stretchy lavender coloured adult turtleneck at the thrift store so I cut that up and the pattern fit on the folded back perfectly...

...cut it out and stitched it together...I think it looks good with the dark purple tutu...

...added all of the elastic...and it was a lot...

...it's so cute...

...now on to the ballet slippers...I just grabbed this pattern from Pinterest...and scaled it to size with the printer...and the dollie's one too...

...dollie's slippers were really fiddly to make...

...but they turned out super cute...

...making the ribbon ties...

...attached the ties to the back seam...

...wrapped them to the front and tied in a bow...

...then just stitched up the girl sized slippers...making larger ties with the bias tape doo-hicky...

...and in case you thought I only played yarn chicken...you'd be wrong...I play thread chicken as well...hahaha...

...and the lavender ballet slippers were complete...I laced them up over some paper tubes just to hold the lacing prettily in place...

...and then I cast on for Little Sissie's ballet leg warmers...I used the Ballerina Leg Warmers by Caryn Prouty pattern...

...it's pretty shapely...and the top ribbing is designed to sit above the knee...

...the neat calf increases up the back...like knitting knee socks...

...so you end up with a left and a right...

...Little Sissie's entire purple ballerina outfit is now complete...a little hard to photograph like this though...

...trying to get it all from overhead...

...dressing dollie up in her matching outfit...adding the leg warmers...

...and the ballet sweater...

...and then I strapped her back into her box...which is also purple...ha...

...and finally...I don't know why I've not already made the girlies a Birthday Crown to wear on their birthdays...

...I should have already done it...

...the Princess Crown pattern is from Hatting Madley Crochet...

...the crown actually has a slightly taller point in the center front...

...but since it's kind of hard to distinguish where the front is...I thought I'd add a cute 'tag' to the back so that it would get positioned properly...(not that it really matters if it doesn't...haha)...

...just cut out from some vinyl from the stash...and then I added the two little hearts for a sort of 'logo'...and stitched it to the center back...

...the Man replaced the downstairs thermostat...and it came in the perfect box for storing the crown...

...so I traced it onto a piece of poster paper...

...so then I creased all of the folds...

...and folded it into a box...

...the perfect size replica box...

...for storing the crown between birthdays...

...and the crown sits neatly inside...

...so then I decorated the top...of course...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...3.25...W.I.P...Wednesday...

...I'm focusing on dollie's ballet costume this week...I made her a little purple ballet sweater to match Little Sissie's...

...I started with this wrap sweater pattern ...but instead of an applied I-cord...I just did a few rows of the same seed stitch border that I did on Sissie's sweater...and the body of this pattern is knit as one piece...of course I'll be adding sleeves...

...of course I had the same issue with the slanted decreases...

...this is the body...

...and then I made two little sleeves...without a pattern...just measured around her wrist and the length and did a couple of increases...

...and stitched it together...it turned out super cute...

...added the ties...

....and then I made a quick pair of leg warmers...

...just a stockinette stitch tube knit in the round with a bit of ribbing top and bottom...I've got the Ballerina Leg Warmers by Caryn Prouty queued up for a matching set for Little Sissie...

...it's super quick knitting tiny things for a dollie...and they fit her well...

...so now...on to the dollie's tutu...it was already purple...but I wanted it to 'match' Little Sissie's tutu...so I took out the seam of the child sized tutu...

...and roughly measured how much ruffle I needed...haha - homophone...

...and look what I found...

...the waistband is already adjustable...and don't worry there's plenty of ruffle here...you won't even notice the missing bit when I sew it back together...

...this is the small chunk I scavenged out of the tutu...

...I cut off the solid bit as I'll just be sewing the sheer bit to her existing waistband...

...I took apart her existing tutu...

...gathered and sewed on the new ruffle...

...and of course it fits her perfectly as it was just added to her existing outfit...

...it's super cute and it will match Little Sissie's tutu now...her necklace is actually a little girl unicorn bracelet and I plan to include a note from the dollie saying that it's OK for Little Sissie to 'borrow' her necklace...haha...

...dollie's outfit is complete except for the shoes...and still to make are Little Sissie's leg warmers, leotard, and ballet slippers...so hopefully by next week I'll get everything done and in the mail...I need to include plenty of travel time as the doll won't fit into any 'express' post office boxes...so it will go 'ground' and we know from experience that that can take a while...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!