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Rainbow is my lifeline | Music is my soul.

Roscoe was reunited with his body after a stay over at muh buddeh Jatzu’s. 

Yes that is a little finger missing and yep, Its supposed to be. 

Feels good bro. Feels good. 

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Simple joys: it's so great when a random pair of shoes finally fits one of your dolls. Never throw stuff away, friends.

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This time I made the blouse with cuffs. It is an added detail and the blouse is still easy to put on as the cuffs for the short sleeves are wide enough for hands.

The skirt I actually first made for Barbie dolls but as the fabric is stiff I think it looks better on Rainbow High dolls as the have bigger heads and bigger facial features.

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I made some more lace dresses on Saturday!  These were actually more challenging, because there was so much lace to choose from (as opposed to the lace dresses I made a few weeks ago, which were made from some grab bag scraps–my brain is usually happier, in projects like this,  when working with limited choices…)

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A few pics of Trysta outside in the natural light~~

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"feeling cute in my dino pj suit and rainbow wig, plus mumther gave me this flower bracelet!"

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Citrus dolls so far

Arnold Palmer,

Cherry Limeade,

Orange Juice,

Lavender Lemonade,

Pink Lemonade,

Lemonade

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A little project to start off the year. This underskirt is gathered with elastic so I can put it on different dolls.

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Is there an update for your customs dolls for the boys? They looked absolutely lovely and I was wondering if there was anything new for them? :O

Yes, actually!!! And thank you so much for asking! OwO I did Springfield's faceup last week (...finally), so he's finally all put together. Now... I just need to make some better clothes for him~

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Re-did Hikari's faceup last week! It's not much different than her previous one, but I definitely did better than before~ >:3

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An absolutely incredible seamstress from a neighboring doll club made all of these outfits by hand. No machine. I'm in SHOCK. O_O

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eyeball tapestry, macky 2023

cotton, wool, mohair, twine ✶ 10x22”

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Finished project: Rosemary

I was scrolling through my own blog today (as one does) and realized I never did a proper round-up post for Rosemary. So this is a bit of a retrospective I suppose! Click through for my notes on the project if you're interested - otherwise, I hope you like the pictures!

This is certainly one of my favorite pieces that I've done. I think it really turned out beautifully! But, it also stands out in my mind for having a foul, foul, truly foul number of broken threads that had to be replaced in the middle of the work. I think at least 6? The ideal number of course being zero. At the time, this sucked. I had no idea what I was doing - you can see in one of the pictures that I was referencing three different books at one point trying to figure out how the heck to fix the dang things. But in hindsight, it was valuable experience! I got a lot of practice splicing in new threads, and I also stopped being so afraid of it happening. (Though of course one still likes to avoid it...)

I am not sure why so many threads decided to part company with their fellows, but I have some theories. I'm fairly sure it's not because of putting too much tension on the thread, because it didn't snap under pressure so much as just kinda fray and drift apart. My prime suspect is the bobbins - something about this style of bobbin makes it really hard (for me, at least) to prevent them rolling wildly all over the pillow during the work, which runs the risk of untwisting the thread. This is very sad for me because I love these bobbins. But I haven't given up hope that I can still make them work. They seem to roll less on my box pillow, so maybe they can just be reserved for that pillow. Also, I'm on that "it was a bad batch of thread" copium 😅

This was also the first time I tried mounting the finished lace onto fabric, which I was very worried about screwing up but it wound up not being so bad! Sewing is definitely not my strong suit, but I got through it and am pleased with the result.

Technical Notes

Pattern: "Rosemary" from A Visual Introduction to Bucks Point Lace by Geraldine Stott

Thread: Egyptian cotton 80/2 in bright white

Gimps: 8 ply of the base thread

Pins: .5 mm pins for the picots and motifs; .8mm pins for the ground and footside

Picots: 5 twists

Started: September 14, 2020

Completed: August 11, 2021

(If you've made it this far and you somehow haven't heard enough about this project, you can check out the "rosemary" tag on my blog to see my other posts about it.)

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Bonus photo of Cinnamoroll and Kuromi

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🌸 Plum Blossom Angel 🌸

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I'm obsessed with these Joan of Arc filet crochet patterns from this 1913 book.

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quick picture of berry’s new outfit!!! he looks soooo cuuuuute