A princess dress for my custom middie Blythe, Bodie.
Handsewn with our aunt’s pink shirt in 100% polyester. Bodice, sleeves, and skirt are separate pieces. Gorl still needs some shoes, accessories, and a doll box.
Here’s her in her perfectly round form before.
This outfit took me so long to finish ( ༎ຶ⌓༎ຶ ) I never made any clothes or drafted any pattern before. And after this doll outfit, I still don’t really how to do any of that. I had to remake the skirt partially at least twice, the bodice also partially remade twice. The sleeves, wow, what even are these things. In the end I just said eff this and they ended up being detached puffs.
Lots of unexpected obstacles with this project.
Her stiff arms means the garment’s armholes have to be at least a certain distance, a surprisingly wide distance cause her hands aim outwards, making any sleeved top very wide if the fabric doesn’t have enough stretch.
Gathering bunches up quickly and it was hard to avoid her waistband looking unwieldy.
My solution for 1 is to not deal with it (for now). As stated, sleeves aren’t attached. For 2, an extra backstitch at the edge really helps clamp down bulk. Also, near the end I realized I could have just singed the edges of the fabric instead of hemming them (threads add bulk) cause I’m using all plastic fabric anyway, they melt, and that’s a perk of the material.
Bonus lesson, velcro is a really messy choice and they snag and ruin stretchy or loose weave fabric.
I just have a lot of respect for seamstress/ters who can draft from scratch and sew complete garments.
A little glow-up for my fertility goddess doll, Oon.
ICY doll (Blythe doll clone) head on an Ali preggo doll body. Her lips colored with Uni paint markers with one layer. Then scraped off the wobbly edges with a toothpick. Not at all the conventional method of doll customizing repaint tools but I got what I got.
I prefer my dolls looking fantastically plastic. For a quick repaint with just painty marker, it's not bad. It's a little thicker and darker than the original lipstick that I wiped off.
My fertility goddess doll! Her name is Oon. You may call her Goddess Oon. She looks rather mortal right now cause of the lack of good clothes but hopefully that’ll change soon.
Made with an ICY doll head and this strange preggo Barbie body knock-off. I had to enlarge the neck hole from the ICY head to fit the preggo body neck but it worked out really well. I also prefer her with a longer body than her default shorter one.
I will be putting as many 1:100 tiny people in that egg-shaped belly because it makes the most sense, of course. I’ll also have to put a bit of makeup on her and make her some godly outfits.
Mixing doll parts is really fun.
Her next to a Tangkou doll for reference. The Tangkou could be a zombie with the lack of color on her besides her face.
I have successfully Frankenstein'd my most perfectest "Blythe" doll and she is my absolute favouritest thing right now. ( ˘ ³˘) 💕 I love her so much. So shiny!
For reference, this is put together with "factory" chubby Icy, which is a copy of Mimi Bobeck doll's body with an Icy head (not shown). Then I swapped the head with a "factory" bald middie Blythe.
I am SO THRILLED the neck joints fits and I didn't have to cut anything off, except I did break the hook notch thing behind her ear which is so expected of me ( ´༎ຶ ༎ຶ ) but the head is still closing fine and she is still perfect.
I have had the chubby Icy since 2018. I never knew what to do with her until recently. The head and body proportion was not my favourite and I love how she turned out! Bonus is this head fits much better than Icy did and it doesn't droop down.
I even got the original Mimi back in 2018. I will likely try to somehow soften her head and see if I can remove it without destroying it eventually. I don't believe the chubby Icy / Blythe copies are sold anymore so this success is just reinforcing my hoarding tendencies.
She looks like a weird adult lady version of Kewpie. I might just make an onion wig for her later.
So here is my obscure Blythe doll log of total success.
A little miniature teddy bear made with sweatshirt fabric scrap, threads, some beads, and sewing pins!
It came out looking like a combo of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and Bad Bob from Rex the Runt. Both are my favoritest animation so I’m quite chuffed with it. Also it has good hand-feel.
Keep reading to see the process!
Materials:
Sweatshirt fabric (another odd scrap from a gift bag from some random online purchase)
Sewing threads
1 small black bead for the nose
2 white glass beads for the eyes*
2 metal head sewing pins for the eyes*
Black paint marker for the eyes*
Poly fill
Awe, or a toothpick
* Alternatively just use 2 larger black beads for eyes
Tools:
Sewing needle
Scissors
Wire cutter
2 nose-tipped pliers
To make the bear:
Cut out a piece of body.
Sew it onto another piece of fabric with back-stitch. Then cut out my excess fabric. Make sure the desired fabric side are facing towards each other on the inside when you sew. Leave a gap on its head.
Flip the body inside out. You can use a toothpick or something similar to help with flipping the limbs.
Sew a nose. Flip it inside out.
Sew it on the bear face with ladder stitch. Then stuff it with polyfill.
Sew on black bead for the nose tip.
Add some optional buns on the back by making one single long stitch from the bottom to the tip of bun, then tightening the thread, and knot it back at the bottom. Make sure to grab some polyfill through the stitch to make your bear buns plump.
Paint the heads of the 2 sewing pins with black paint markers. Give it half a day to completely dry. Plush each of them through a white bead. Then use pliers to slowly create a loop on the back of each bead so they become a sort of buttons. Cut the end of the pins with wire cutter.
Gently create 2 holes where the eye should be with the awe or toothpick, without cutting the fabric. Just push the fabric around to make one of its hole bigger and bigger. Big enough to allow you to shove the back loop of your eyeballs through the fabric.
Once the 2 eyeball back loops are pushed through the fabric, tie them with each other with some threads. Make sure it’s just tight enough so the eyes won’t fall out but lose enough so they aren’t squeezed together and distorting the face.
Close up the head gap with ladder-stitch.
Sew 2 ears with back-stitch. Flip them inside out.
One of our most helpful friends. Upcycled heat pack or cool pack made with used cotton jeans and rice with some twines for its embroidered face.
The embroidery is a bit wonky because it was a very last minute craft as Xmas gift.
I love making these because they are so helpful. It can be microwaved to warm up for perpetual cold limbs or monthly cramps. Plus they can be stored in the freezer for any post-exercise pains. The cute face and legs are optional so you just cut out a cotton pant leg, sew 2 lines of stitches (I did a combination of running-stitch with a few back-stitches in between), fill it with rice, close it up and it’s ready!
Cut fabric into a star shape with a flat bottom (for his bum).
Line your star cut-out with your liner fabric (you may skip this part if you feel like your shiny fabric is strong / thick enough).
Sew the star with back-stitch. Leave the bottom hole open.
Flip that star through the bottom hole and set it aside.
Draw a mock-up of Albert's face and cut a few layers of poly batting in approximately his shape. If you are using poly fill instead, you can skip this part and start needle felting a rough base shape shown in next step.
Stab it some.
To speed up the felting of the base, use soap and hot water to gently massage it until it starts feeling noticeably more felted. You may skip this step if you have more patience than me at stabbing.
Add facial features with core wool such as cheeks, chin, and forehead.
Add top wool.
As well as smaller facial features like lips.
Cut glass pins to length so they don't poke through the face. Bend them downward a little and pin at a slight angle downward so they more secure (than poking them straight towards the back).
Sew your optional bells at the five tips of Albert’s body.
Stuff Albert with poly fill.
Sew Albert's face on his body. Put him aside.
For Albert's guts, it's just a small pocket. Cut out a piece of rectangle that is roughly the width of his bottom hole and cut the length at double however long your christmas tree tip is. Mine was around 6ish" long that folded into a 3" deep pocket. Sewn with running stitch back and forth.
Flip his gut pocket inside out. Shove it at his bottom. Sew it onto its body (make sure to sew it to the top and lining fabric together for strength cause that part will need it).
Albert, child of night. He may look a bit like a fool with a plastic tree up his bum but he brings us merriment for the festive season.
Made with recycled fabric, acrylic fiber, poly stuffing, glass pins, cat toy bells, and threads.
I tried to film the making of Albert and it was a very intrusive act to my craft trance. I already knew filming and editing is a different set of work in itself, but it makes me appreciate the effort of well thought-out youtube creators even more. I don’t know how they stay in one place and film almost 90% of their process because I was literally crying from forcing my hands to stay on my table while not being able to see where my needle is poking at with my heavily astigmatized vision plus an accursed eye floater that refuses to leave whom I have named Jezebel.
Hopefully I will edit the footages into something decent soon.
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