Today’s New Listing… Flower Tank Top

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Today’s New Listing… Flowers Tank Top

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Today’s New Listing… Upcycled Pink Flower T-Shirt

Enjoy spring and summer in this bright t-shirt!  Click the photo to view the listing:

Today’s New Listing… Pink and Purple Flowers Flannel Pajama Pants

These pink pajama pants will be a bedtime favorite!  Click the picture to view the listing:

Today’s New Listing… Purple Butterflies and Flowers Skirt with Headband

Springtime brings flowers and butterflies!  Click the photo to view the listing:

American Girl Doll Flower Hair Clip

There is snow on the ground and the air is cold, but I just had to make a summery hair clip for my dolls.  I made a simple pink flower one, and then made this one:

The green and blue flowers are actually soft paper embellishments, from Prima.  Therefore, this sort of clip wouldn’t work for small children but for photos and such it’s sweet 🙂  I simply hot glued the two flowers together, then glued a small rhinestone to cover the hole the flowers have in the center.  These holes are for scrap booking brads to go through.  I could have used a brad to cover the hole, but the rhinestone adds a bit more to the look than a brad would.  After the flowers were all put together, I glued them to a one inch alligator clip.  Voila!  Great accessory for summer dresses!

American Girl Doll Summer Sundress

I don’t know the name of the fabric this dress is made of, but it is very light and soft (like flannel). It’s the kind of fabric would be good to make a pair of summer pajamas out of.

I didn’t use a pattern for this dress.  The shirring on the top was already done, which gave me the idea for this dress.  I measured her front from armpit to armpit, straight across, because I knew the fabric was stretchable.  I also measure the back the same way.  I added a little extra in the back, so I could put Velcro on.  In the end, the front was 6 inches, and the back was 8 inches.  If I were to do it again, I would do the back 7 1/2 inches or even 7 inches, since the back isn’t tight fitting.

I cut the back piece down the middle, then stitched it back together almost all the way to the top, but left enough so I would have room for adding Velcro.

I attached the front and the back, and hemmed the bottom.

The straps I attached on the front, and the stitches aren’t hidden.  I thought it looked better with a little V.

The dress was very simple to make.  To do the shirring/smocking yourself, all you would need to do is hook up your sewing machine with elastic thread and stitch!  I, however, do not have a sewing machine so I must take advantage of pre-sewn fancies.

The fabric flower is currently sewn to a regular human sized hair tie, which is stretchy enough to go over the doll’s head.  When I have a hair clip available, I’m going to take the flower off the hair tie and hot glue it to the clip.  I think that would be much better then a headband, especially one that is turquoise and doesn’t match the dress!

Anyway, the fabric flower I found here and I did it exactly the way the directions said, except I had to size it down.  Any smaller, and it would be difficult – not impossible, though – to sew together.

If this style of flower doesn’t match your outfit, you may find a flower for you here.

Next is a Disney Frozen outfit!