I would love to show you a picture of this, in progress, but our camera batteries died, and the plug is nowhere to be found.

I have been working on a project I’ve been meaning to do for a long while.  There are patterns available in abundance for 18″ doll clothes.  And there are 18″ dolls.  And there are rag doll patterns.  But I have never been able to locate a pattern for a rag doll that will fit in the 18″ doll clothes.  So if you make a doll, you have to figure out what it is going to wear.  Sooo…for a long while I have been wanting to create a pattern for a doll that will fit into these clothes.  I had been putting it off and putting it off, because I found it a daunting prospect.  But I finally buckled down and did it.

And my pattern worked!  For some of the clothing, she’d probably need to be squished a bit, as a rag doll doesn’t hold its shape in quite the same way as a hard vinyl doll.  And the construction leaves a bit to be desired.  (I wasn’t sure what order to attach everything, especially since my doll had parts that the dolls I found online did not have.)  The head is a bit square, so I’d round it a little more next time.  But overall, it worked!  And she has actual feet that could go into shoes (keeping in mind the squishing part).

Sophia does not know that this doll is to be hers for Christmas, but she keeps saying, “Mama, I love your dollbaby.”

Unfortunately, said dollbaby is still bald and naked.  A friend found me directions for attaching hair, and I chose the “wig” method.  To attach the hair this way, you crochet a cap for the doll, tie the hair to the cap, then sew the cap to the doll’s head.  Yesterday evening, I crocheted the cap (and realized that I had never actually finished a crochet project!), and it is currently awaiting the remainder of its hair.  (The cap looks cute, though, and I’m thinking that perhaps I should attempt another small crochet project.  I’m still working on the baby blanket I started when I was eleven!)  We have decided to name the doll Aggie, as an adaptation of “agape,” since I made it because I love Sophia, and since Sophia keeps saying, “Mama, I love this doll.”  “Mama, I love her eyes.”  “Mama, I love her mouth.” lol

The girls were also to get an 18″ doll wardrobe for Christmas.  I don’t see that happening.  I will still make them a few outfits, I think, but I will not have time to make all of the clothes and things I had wanted to, so that will have to wait.  Next year, perhaps.

Does anyone know how I can scan these pattern pieces in and print/save them in such a way that they will remain the same size as the originals?

(You know how on TV they’re always solving some crime nowadays by finding evidence on someone’s “nanny cam”?  Adding security cameras to something like this would make for some really well-hidden nanny cams – no one would suspect the handmade doll! lol  I think maybe I’ve been watching NCIS for too long.   )

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