This one

Amazing what fabrics can be found at Spotlight...



Tink says this one is really comfortable and fits the way she likes.  I think it will do for training leos, so will stick with this pattern.

Sizing it up

Well, this is a size 8... consensus is that we go with this size but tighten the leg elastic and redraw the neckline and armholes to be higher.  Somewhere between the 7-long and 8-narrow, I guess :)
Resizing for Jess' leos will be done with the aid of my fabulous neighbour, Clare - who is a certified expert, as Jess has grown in all directions, not just up!

No surprises here...

... it's a leotard, lol!
From the lycra stash, checking for size as Tink has grown again - but in the body for a change!  This is a size 7.  Feedback from gym class today tells me she needs a size 7 long or a size 8 narrow...

Just can't beat the holographic lycra, and lime in particular never fails  :)

Gifted

This is the new addition to the doll cabinet

Isn't she just beautiful?  A showcase of a gifted talent for dolly making and dressing.

Gifted to me, very generously, by my dear friend Sarah - who now makes amazing art quilts. 

Seasons Greetings

Hope eveyone had a wonderful Christmas Day with family and friends, and here's to 2012 - may it be happy and healthy  :)

teehee

Look! It's not a leotard!

13 - yes thirteen - months since I last had a cross stitch finish (it pays to actually DO some stitching of course) here's the one and only for this year:

It also helps that it was a little one  :)

M Designs "Love Tree", over one on 22ct hardanger using Chameleon threads "olive"; for a friend's annual Christmas gift. 

Here's to 2012 Rachel!

From the archives...

Well, from the depths of the drawer in my doll cabinet actually, where she had been hiding for over 10 years.
A visit to the dolls hospital, a new knitted vest (thank you Grandma!) and a new outfit later (slightly modified vintage Simplicity doll pattern), she has a new lease on life.

She's a UK made Pedigree hard plastic doll circa early 1950s.  She was given to my sister when Liz was very little (Grandma can't remember who by) and travelled out when my family emigrated here in the mid 1960s.  Unlike all the other similar vintage Pedigree dolls I found on the internet, this one isn't a "walker" and doesn't have a voice mechanism.  Those are sleep eyes though, as they should be.
My girls are quite taken with her.  I wonder if Liz will want her back?