Lydia's Dolls: Sewing

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Lydia's Dolls got a makeover

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

What do you think of the blog's new look?

I quite like it personally!

So here is the new blog, I've added a few new pages at the top of it if you want to check them out :)

I also have moved, I'm in my new house which is awesome!

Well keep smiling! I hope you like the new blog as much as I do!

Happy Doll Loving

Lydia

Clara's dress: Mattel

Chandler's romper: Me

My computer is playing up (again.!) I seriously need to clear it and put all my photos on an external hard-drive so my computer doesn't keep freezing up and not co-operating! Well for this post I wanted to show you the rompers that I have been sewing lately! I am obsessed with them and this isn't even all of them!

Which one was your favorite?

Lyda
* can't even spell my name omg let's try again!*
Lydia
*There we go!*

Did some embroidery....

Sunday, December 04, 2016

Hello all! These past few weeks I have been experimenting with some embroidery! I have done a little bit of cross stitching in the past but not much though I really enjoyed it! So I thought it would be fun to do some little designs to spice up some outfits I've been sewing lately.

I didn't follow a pattern for these flowers, I kinda just made it up but I want to get some books out from the library about hand embroidary and attempt some more designs and maybe some letters, I think that would be so cool!

This is the design on the skirt, I made these skirt overalls from a pair of my sisters old jeans. I think they are super cute with the headband and everything!

Oh and who can forget Log, the Lamb-Dog! I posted a pic on instagram and you guys seemed to have liked his name! It's a bit silly but it suits him!

I was going for that kinda of doodle style with the flowers where not every petal is the same etc.. I don't know but I really loved how they came out!!

Thanks so much for reading! I've finally finished all my exams and I am just relaxing and distressing. But I have auditions for my school musical over the next few days so that doesn't help with the stress, but oh well! I need to take some more photos! I'm loving everyone's dolls and christmas tree photos so I might try that with our tree... I'll just see what happens! But my family is getting ready for christmas and I'm getting ready to go down and see ROGUE ONE WITH MY OLDER BROTHER NEXT WEEEEEK!! I'm so excited! Ok I love you guys and talk soon

Happy Doll Loving

Lydia

P.S have you guys ever tried embroidery of any kind? Do you like to spice up your dolls clothes like that?! Tell me down below!

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My doll Halloween costumes 2016!

Saturday, November 05, 2016

Hello! Well last weekend/Monday was Halloween! I've never celebrated Halloween before and I have never been a fan of all the scary ghosts and zombie stuff and my family don't celebrate that stuff either so we just dressed as princesses and when to a party with some friends. It was such a fun way to celebrate, except that my sister ate all my lollies so I made her go buy me a packet of them the next day. Anyway I sadly didn't dress up my 18inch dolls but managed to rangle 2 of my barbies into some costumes.

First up is Oregon's costume. She was a black cat, I was going for the kinda 'wanting to dress up but didn't want to go all out and wear a tail and paws' So I made a little 'attempt of sexy' black dress and some cat ears made out of shared pipe-cleaners. I would say that I will do a tutorial but I really just winged making them. There is probably a tutorial on youtube somewhere :D

The ball of wool is just some yarn glued together, now I can't decide if I needed to make it bigger or smaller because the scale doesn't quite seem right? I can't figure it out

She has this ninja cat pose going on! Honestly I don't know what she's doing!

Next is Chandler's costume. I love her in gold oh my gosh!!

And I want to clarify, I don't take ballet so these poses are probably incorrect but they look cool right?!

I need to learn to make tights coz this skirt was getting a little bit short! Not gonna lie, I purposely took these pics from a higher angle or we were gonna have some problems >.<

So graceful!

And those are my 2 doll costumes I worked on for 2016! I personally did what Oregon did but I was a minion, so I had a denim skirt overall and a yellow t-shirt and I was set! Now that halloween is over we have a straight run until christmas, well you Americans have thanksgiving but lets just think about CHRISTMAS!!!

I hope you enjoyed seeing these costumes, which was your favourite?

Happy Doll Loving!

Lydia

My Skirt-Overall Faze

Saturday, October 08, 2016

Ok so my most recent pixie faire pattern I bought was the 'Not your brothers overalls' and I have been sewing it a lot. This always happens, I buy a pattern and then only sew that for a few weeks until I buy another one :) So here are the 3 overalls I've sewn recently.

Cecile in the purple straight overalls.

This was my first time sewing this pattern, and I love the groovy fabric that I used. It made it a real stand out piece and was super fun to make.

Ok I know her eyes look weird, i tried something different with the editing and it failed and I can't change it! Just pretend they aren't there.

The pattern has two variations of the overall or skirt-all and the one that Cecile is wearing is the straight bottom version.

Isabelle in a retro ballet overall

The fabric I used for this one was actually bought way back in 2014, when I first started blogging. (on my old blog) I bought it to make a ballet inspired duvet for her, I had some leftovers and 2 years later I made this! It was pretty nostalgic making this overall.

So this is the retro variation. It was definitely more simple to make this one, I found anyway.

Kendall with Log and the new guy Luke (according to my sister)

The final one I made was a dog inspired one, my sister had some fabric that my mum said I could use, it was in the garage ok?! And when I had finished sewing with it, my sister found out. Let's just say she got a bit annoyed.

But it was worth it, I only have one pic of this one because I don't like how they turned out. I tried to fix Kendall's wonky eye and I think I made it worse and then her hair got caught in the zip of the bag I was carrying her in for the photoshoot so it looked horrendous and I was on a tight time schedule to take these pics! ANYWHO.. I'll have a post about the eye fixing soon :)

But I hope you enjoyed these overalls and please check out the pattern on pixie faire, it's such fun to sew and not too difficult! I'll be sewing much more of these babies in the future!

Happy Doll Loving

Lydia

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An ornament inspired project (Part 3) Oregon & The Bunny

Sunday, September 04, 2016

Alrighty guys this is Part 3 of An Ornament Inspired Project! If you haven't read Part 1 & 2 click on the numbers and go check them out!

Bad quality progress pics for this post too, but not a too bad one of Oregon is start us of eh?

smile for the camera honey!

The Doll

Fun Fact; I actually purchased Oregon on my first and only trip to a Target store when I visited the US last year! So she's pretty cool :) But I chose her for this look because I wanted a bit of diversity in my models for this project and also she looked REALLY nice in the pink! Like really nice :D

The Fabrics

I didn't have trouble choosing the fabrics for this dress, my sister had some scraps of the hot pink left over from when she made pillows last year and I bought this cute floral one a while ago and found it in the bottom of my fabric box. They both just sing together so they were a match!

The Muse

As you can see this little bunny was so dirty! Like gross! But I actually didn't clean her before making the dress, no idea why i guess I couldn't be bothered honestly, and I didn't realize that there was actually purple flowers in her flower basket! I didn't incorporate and purple into the dress and now you know why ;-*

I cleaned her the same way I did the fox, just warm water a bit of hand soap and a clean toothbrush and VIOLA! All shiny!

The Design

Some of the things I wanted to take from the ornament and add into the dress:

1. FLOWERS! Loving the flowery feel I was getting from this bunny!

2. The colours I was gonna use were pink and white.

3. The vibes I was getting/ thoughts that were going through my head

~relaxed

~ picnic

~ barefoot

~flowery

~ spring

~graceful

I cannot draw for the life of my I know.

Now it may seem weird that I used words like picnic, flower, graceful but I think that's just the way my brain works! I'm just giving you guys a peek inside my head with these posts ^.^ But I used these words when I was sewing and setting up the photoshoot and it really helped me bring in character and such.. Yeah..

The Hair

As you can see from the design, I had multiple ideas for what to do with her hair, I was going to try make a flower crown coz guys I love flowers crowns like I want so many flower crowns for my dolls its not funny, I need to learn to make them! So I think that will be a project for another week!

But if you read the making of Apollo's outfit you would of known I had a bit of trouble with the headscarves but the universe must have wanted Oregon to have a headscarf because first try, I tied a piece around her head and it looked fabulous!

(Well it was late so I couldn't be bothered making it look legit but I liked how it turned out!)

Also I always have Oregon's hair in a big bun, that's just her signature hairdo and it works! So I am very happy with the way her hair came out!

Accessories

And also right from the start I knew that she wasn't going to be wearing shoes with this outfit because I was going for the relaxed, sitting on the lawn look, I don't know she just wasn't going to wear shoes ok!
Now i wish I had a doll picnic basket because I wanted to set up a little picnic photoshoot

but i did my best :)

She kept the brackets that she had when I bought her just to jazz up her outfit but I was going pretty minimal on the jewelry.

It took me 3 photo attempts to finally get nice photos of Oregon in this dress! I went out on 3 separate occasions and they all looked really off, or the editing just didn't look right. I used some of them in these posts but you know when some photos don't just click with you? That was happening with me.
But I needed to get this post up so I though it I just merge them all together we should be good! Lydia's logic :)
And that brings us to the end of Part 3 of An Ornament Inspired Project, I had such fun making these dresses and they were a challenge too. Which one was your favourite?

Or Oregon's?

Check out Apollo's post here

I thought this would be the end of an ornament inspired project but my dad handed me 2 new ornaments a few days ago! I'll show you in other a future post I can't get the photo over! Maybe I'll try make a outfit for an American Girl doll next time

Haha but don't worry it will be a few weeks before a get those posts up! I have other posts planned! This will probably be a continuous thing I'll try group all these posts together under a Label. I need to sort that situation out! Ok enough rambling! Goodnight my lovelies!
Happy doll loving
Love Lydia

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An ornament inspired project (Part 2) Apollo & The Fox

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Righty ho! This is part 2 of my little series that I'm doing called An Ornament Inspired Project. If this is your first time reading this, go read PART 1 to find out whats going on and then come back to this post. But today we are gonna be discussing how I created Apollo's look.

(Again with the iPod pics, I'm sorry next time I do one of these projects i'll make an effort to take half decent work in progress pics)

The Doll

So Apollo was actually a thrift store find, and when I was creating this dress I just looked up at my doll shelf and she just screamed "I'M THE PREFECT ONE FOR THIS LOOK" and thats basically how I chose who I was gonna use as the model for this dress.

So for both of these dresses I was going for the retro vibe, 1950's (hopefully the right era) So I had the dress pattern now I needed to look at my muse and find out how I was gonna do this.

He was so dirty oh my gosh! A bit of warm water and scrubbing with a toothbrush cleaned him up nicely.

The Muse

The main thing that I wanted to incorporate into my dress design was:

1. the outfit needed to be pale blue outlined by dark blue to match his sailor costume.

2. I wanted to add a little bit of red in there, to represent his life floatation device, oh my gosh I can't remember the name of that thing..

The Design

So now I had kinda planned it out, I attempted to sketch up a deign

So the colours I wanted to work with,

Red, Navy blue, Sky Blue. white

Now I didn't want it to look exactly like the ornament so I decided that the dark blue/ outlining fabric will be floral. To add a bit of femininity to the outfit.

(Hahaha can you see how I've spelt the word femininity on the design! Go Lydia! You can spell! )

The Hair

So I brainstormed a few ideas for how I wanted her hair to look like. I wanted to add the splash of red as a hair accessory and I tried the headscarf look but it looked really off..

google images

I played around with different headscarves but none of them were tooting my horn. So I eventually tied a small bit around her neck as a neckerchief and it was just perfect!

But with a little bit of toothbrushing her hair went into this nice curl and some sunny's ontop really helped the look!

Fabrics

For choosing fabrics, I had a light blue in mind. And I knew I was going to use that for the main dress so I looked through my fabric box and found a floral fabric that I liked that look off for the contrasting/bordering material.
I actually used left overs from what I used to make Cas's sundress in this post.

Now for choosing the red fabric. I only wanted a small thing made out of red. Keeping with the retro theme, I made a simple neck scarf. Because as you know headscarf didn't work out for me.

I decided on the solid red this time because the spots were rather large for what I was wanted to sew, maybe another time spotty.

Accessories

Now came my favorite bit, adding accessories!

I found a red barbie purse and it was perfect!

The pair of sunglasses really just make the look so me personally :)

And I left the earrings that she was originally with because they are super pretty!

Well that brings us to the end of the making of Apollo's fox inspired outfit! I actually had so much fun making this! And I have a really like 4th of July BBQ feel from this outfit! Did you guys get those vibes? i did. Whelp hopefully I'll have Oregon's up in the next week! :D
Please if you have any question or suggestions leave them down below! :-*
Happy doll loving!
-Lydia

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Lydia's Dolls got a makeover

My romper craze..

Did some embroidery....

My doll Halloween costumes 2016!

My Skirt-Overall Faze

An ornament inspired project (Part 3) Oregon & The Bunny

An ornament inspired project (Part 2) Apollo & The Fox

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