18" Doll Dress and a Giveaway!!!

                   

On Friday I sewed a new dress for Pansy.

 Pansy is an 18" Daisy Kingdom doll

 from way back several years...I'm sure many of you remember them! 

 I keep Pansy at my house

(along with a few others)

 for Sophie to play with when she comes over.

I wanted to make her a 

new dress because

Nancy Zieman 

sent me a copy of her

 new book and asked me 

to try it out!

Nancy's book is called

30 Minute Doll Clothes

There are 10 basic easy sew 

outfits in the book

 that you can stitch up as is...

or you can add your own embellishments for an 

even larger wardrobe variety for the 18" dolls in your world:)

They fit the American Girl dolls perfectly but I chose to sew one for Pansy because all of Kassidy's American Girls are packed away for her own little girl someday:)

I decided to sew the 

"Tea Time" dress for Pansy 

on page 8 and I also decided to use my 

Daisy Cottage fabric line for the dress.

I changed it up just a little...

 by adding a wide hem on the bottom 

of the Tea Time dress.  

I simply cut a 4 1/2" x 40" strip of fabric

 out of a Daisy Cottage stripe...

Then I pressed a 1/4"hem down 

both long sides of the strip and then

 I pressed it in half.

I then unfolded it and inserted the

 floral dress skirt inside...

And topstitched into place like this.

I stitched the bodice sections and 

straps as per the instructions...

                        

And finished up the dress!

Fun and Easy.

I can see why the book is called 

30 Minute Doll Clothes because that's how long it took me to make the Tea Time dress.

I decided to make a large 

flower clip that would

 be easy for Sophie to add and to 

remove when she wanted to.

I cut a 3" x 22" strip of Pewter Gray 

solid and folded it in half.

I gathered it using a needle and thread...

and fairly large stitches.

I pulled up the gathers so that the 

strip formed a circle...

and then took some tucks in 

the center here and there

 to make the flower puff up a bit!

I added a 1 1/8" covered button for the center.

Thanks so much to Nancy for 

sending the book to me...

I found the instructions very clear

 and easy to follow.

And for your info...

Nancy is having a giveaway 

to celebrate the release of her book!

CLICK HERE

 for the details and to enter.

On a side note...

thanks so much to everyone who has

joined The Great Granny Along fun!

I have "sew" loved seeing all of your 

 blocks over on the Flickr group...

so many beautiful fabric combinations!

It is NOT too late to join...

CLICK HERE 

for my block tutorial and all of

The Great Granny Along details. 

Tomorrow morning I will announce the

 winner of my Millie's Closet 

"granny roll"

good luck to everyone!

xx

Lori