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Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Blythe Doll Carrier Tutorial

Here is a quick and easy Blythe Doll carrier you can make

What you will need.

2 x fabric 18"x 14"

1 x quilted fabric 18"x 14"

1 x knit fabric 18"x 3"

1 x knit fabric 18"x 6"

36"of ribbon

Scissors, pins, pen and ruler.

OK so here is a pic of what you need as outlined above.

Disregard the bias binding in the pic...I was going to use it, but then wondered why I was making more work for myself.

Molly is my model for the carrier as I have never made one so I used her to guess the measurements.

Cut out your fabrics to the measurements stated at the start of the tutorial.

I just outlined mine with the ruler (keeping it square) and cut them out ready

So we are cutting 1 piece of quilted fabric and 2 pieces of our fabric

18"by 14"

The 18" is the width.

Next I cut out my knit fabric and over locked the top edge only of each piece.

You could even cut up an old tee shirt for this part.

You would use the bottom of the tee shirt (the hemmed edge) as your over locked edge.

Now lay 1st your quilted fabric, then a piece of your fabric face up and then your two pieces of knit fabric right way up.

The 6 "piece goes at the top with the over locked edge facing towards the centre

and

the 3"piece goes at the bottom with the over locked edge towards the centre.

Next cut a piece of ribbon 36"long and fold in half.

Pin it to the left hand side half way down (7") and pin in place.

Fold the loose end of the ribbon (the end we are not sewing into the seam) over on itself in the centre of the fabric and place a pin through it so it does not get caught in your seams.

Then place your top piece of fabric face down.

Pin around all four sides, through all the layers.

Now sew all around the edges.

Start about 2" in from the centre down the bottom.

Sew all the way around.

I used the edge of my sewing machine foot as a guide

(so the right hand edge is in line with the edge of the fabric)

and this give me a 1/2 "seam on my machine.

Stop about 2" from the centre on the bottom .

This gives you a 4 "opening at the bottom.

I sewed over my ribbon a few times to reinforce it as you will be using it a lot.

Now trim your 4 corners and turn in side out.

Poke your corners into shape (you can use a chop stick or a knitting needle).

Unpin your ribbon

Pin all around your edges - rolling them flat and into place as you go.

Now top stitch the lot. I started at the ribbon, so I would end there.

Again it was so I would have a bit of extra stitching at the point where it will be pulled when it is tied up.

This is also closing up your bottom gap for you.

So now your new Blythe Doll carrier is ready to use. The reason we have put the knit fabric top and bottom is so there is no risk of our doll slipping out of the top or bottom when she is rolled up.

So insert your dolls head in the top and feet into the bottom

Fold the side with out the ribbon towards the middle

And then fold the side with the ribbon over that.

Wrap your ribbon around and tie in a bow.

And as you can see...there is no worry of her slipping out.

Hope this was easy to understand. It really is quick and easy to make.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can help at all.

Till next time!

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Blythe Dresses

Well I still haven't been sewing except for some Blythe doll dresses.

But I thought I would show you what I have made.

I finished these while I was working in Sydney.

I used wrapping paper sticky taped to the picture hung above the desk
for the back ground and the lamp for lighting.

The house maid must have wondered what was going on. lol

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These are the ones I have made since I got home

I have about another 30 cut out!

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I have been trying to take better doll pictures. Some of the women and men out there take fabulous photos

So here are a few with clothes I have made

This last dress I didn't make but the photo was too cute not to show!

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And last but not least

Look at these fabulous hats and tops and dresses my sister in law made for my dolls

I am so lucky and grateful!!

Aren't they just awesome!!

Till next time!!

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Blythe Dresses

I have been having a much needed break from Facebook and sewing.

I am a little disillusioned with the whole Facebook thing these days.

It is way too much work to stay in the news feeds and I really have better things to do, than be on Facebook all the time trying to maintain that my page stay in the news feeds .

I actually have a life, and sewing is my hobby - these days it feels like a chore so I am doing other things and just sewing when I feel like it.

So I have been sewing little Blythe dresses and changing their eye chips.

If you are interested in the eye chip photos , they can be found here

Blythe doll photos

Here are some of the little dresses.

I started buying this fabric a year ago and just never had time

to make the dresses, so at Christmas break I got stuck into it.

I wanted to take this photo to make a header for my Blythe Tumblr page.

My Tumblr page is somewhere for me to put my doll photo's rather Flickr.

I only started it recently.

Anyone that collects Blythe Dolls knows they are great to photograph,

and photography is something I am very interested in but not good at.

So I am enjoying taking photos of the dolls every day. I am getting my head around the whole composition of the shot, But still have a long way to go.