I'm nearly done with the sleeves on the leftover yarn bird sweater- the blue/brown border will take me to the proper length, so I can bind off, and cut them apart. I'll be sure to take pics. Then it'll just be a matter of making the sweater body long enough, which will involve 2 or 3 more bird borders.
Thanks to blog reader Mary Wilson- we have a name for the sweater:
Hitchcock
heh...
I spent some time sewing more American-Girl slickers yesterday. I used a different flannel-backed vinyl table cloth and I'm not nearly as happy with the results. Though both this one and the red gingham cloth were made by the same manufacturer, same size, same price, same store, the stripey one is stiffer and more fragile. The fabric tears more easily and I am worried about how well these coats will hold up under normal little-girl dollie play. But they're far too fiddly to discard, or to start over, and I need 3 or none, so I'll forge ahead.
It's still pretty cute, and I am impressed with my own arty fabric cutting, which makes 3 coats (I'll finish the last today) cut from the same fabric, all look different. I am not so impressed with the fact that I couldn't get the stripes to line up properly on one of them. Oh well.
I'm so glad you shared the slicker and hat along with your fabric source. My youngest saw them and asked me if I had a pattern with suitable fabric. A quick trip downtown to Dollar General, $4 later and I'm in business for her collection of dolls. THANK YOU! The nearest fabric store is 30 minutes away and I never would have thought about a vinyl tablecloth.
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