What Charlotte mentioned about the motif is something I run into often when placing a design for machine embroidery. I love Rebecca’s bonnet and Elizabeth’s hairbow is so sweet and perfect with the dress and pantalettes. I’m not much good with hair myself and probably won’t even try to emulate some of the styles you do, but I do love seeing them. What a totally lovely outfit and both girls looked perfect wearing it. This is the son we did the river cruise with in Europe recently (and my husband got to stay in Amsterdam an extra 10 days because he tested positive and I was negative and we both had had our 4th shot.) Getting excited that oldest son, DIL, and youngest grandson will be here a few days the end of this week for our oldest granddaughter’s HS graduation. But this moisture was desperately needed. Tuesday or Wednesday it looks like Salida May normal….70’s and sun. Still cold nights so the hanging plants are back inside for the nights. All last week we were pushing 80 then Friday night we got 9” of heavy snow and another 3” on Saturday. I tried to follow your instructions but once you got the two side braids, I was flummoxed. If I were starting out with my AGs and clothing collecting, I would bid on this with a vengeance. Perfect decisions and perfect execution, as ever. Well, I hope you like it… I’ll do my best to get it listed on Ebay, but my Monday is looking awfully full… Here are the rest of the pictures on Rebecca… doesn’t she look sweet? Then I added ties to the ends and tucked them inside. When it comes to Regency dresses, I love fancy headbands and bonnets, so I decided to make a small day bonnet and Rebecca will show you this… It was just a piece of the coral ribbon, with the same lace as on her bodice, laid across and embellished with some beads and a few folded silk flowers. Here are some pictures of Elizabeth looking pretty glamourous! Then I made a pair of cream fingerless gloves… Somehow in my pictures it just looks too big, but in person, it’s very pretty and I’ve got it fluffed out and wrapped toward her head, but it’s hard to see… (I need a 3D camera, I guess!) It’s a wired ribbon so you can make it fluffy or flat, wrapped around your doll’s head or just left flat. It has a snap clip on back and easily goes wherever you like. (I’m going to try this on Rebecca when she comes home in a few weeks.) I decided to turn my braided hair up under and pin it in place. Then use another rubber band to hold it all together. Just take your fingers and make a hole in the braids and pull your strand through. Okay, next… I made a pretty hairstyle for Elizabeth by braiding 2 long braids on each side of the back of her hair… leaving a small strand of hair hanging down in between… After you get the braids finished and have rubber bands holding them at the bottom, take the strand of hair (about the same thickness as one of the strands of your braids) and weave it back and forth from one braid to another working your way down the braid. See how the flowers are slightly shifted to the left? If I emphasized those areas, it would look off center when you looked at it… but there was one little section of the embroidery on the lace where a few leaves stuck up in the center of the scallops… look here… I moved my pins to this spot.īut I could only put one small bead or a pearl and after squinting my eyes and really looking at the design of the lace, I decided the fabric was busy and so was the lace, so I decided to leave it plain, and just let the lace look lovely all by itself! :o) I put some orange pins in the places where I would normally do a little bit of silk ribbon embroidery or bead work. It was a no-brainer to fit it evenly between the open square neck area… anyone who sews would have done the same… but as you look at the embroidered design in the lace, the flowers are NOT centered below the scallops… they are slightly off center. Let’s start with the lace on the front of the dress… There is a scalloped edge on both sides of the lace I used… but the wider edge I centered at the top. I’ll show you what’s new with the set, partly on Elizabeth and then on Rebecca. I got quite a few things done but none more important to American Girl dolly lovers than the completion of the Regency dress I have been working on. I hope you had a wonderful weekend… (especially Marilyn, who is dealing with “light” snow, STILL in May!) :o)
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