December 8, 2011

• Playing Santa

  I was hired to play Santa and make some dresses for an American Girl doll.  This kind of thing plays right into my delight in little kids and the fact that I love Christmas.

  

   

  The doll was the character Kitt and I chose to duplicate two of her dresses, one jumper and blouse, her nightgown and her coat.  Armed with only the pictures downloaded from the AG website I set to work pawing through my fabrics, trims and embellishments to find just the right things. 

  

  This is my version of the above dress.   The fabric I used is an actual 1930 reproduction that I had in my stash.  Rather than fuss with the embroidery on the collar and drive up the cost of the whole garment I sewed a button shaped like cherries on it that duplicated the cherry print on the dress.

  

  The barrette in the hair is just some leftover red ribbon folded to cover the hair clip and covered with a manufactured bow.  The belt is made with some leftover webbing and a couple of d-rings.

  Not too bad for not wanting to spend and drive up the costs.  I think Santa and I are good collaborators.  Now onto the rest of the collection.

   

   

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