Updates From The Stitch Witch Studio

I haven’t had a good warm home cooked meal in a couple of days. Been busy on errands. Made this last night…

Sudado De Pescado Recipe courtesy of fastboy.

I met up with Angelique and picked up my new girl…

She’ll be my Amelie Poulan. I’ll start work on her tonight.

Spent the afternoon making this…

Now all I need is one lamp on each side of the light box and I can take photos of anything that would fit in the box. No more glares or shadows.

The aunts gave me this three-thread-overlock machine two weeks ago.

I’ve been scouring the web for instructions on how to thread this old geezer since then. I finally went over to the dress shop up the road and asked the ladies there if they knew how to thread such a machine. They gave me the number of their tech guy. I made an appointment for early tomorrow morning. Whew! What a relief. I was about to start pull my hair out trying to get that machine working. Hopefully it’ll be up and running within the day.

Happiness!

Updates from the Christmas rush season

Maya and I have been at a mad dash last Friday, buying up supplies and raw materials for the dolls and doll clothes to fill the etsy shops with.

So after an afternoon ordeal of wading through an ocean of people at Divisoria, we passed by our favorite restaurant on our way home.

Maya: Where’s the waiter? I’m hungry!

Maya: Maybe I should go fetch him myself. I’m so hungry I could eat these flowers painted on the table and windows!

Maya: Finally, something to drink at least. Where’s the straw?

Maya: Yay! The food’s here. Now will you put down that camera so we can start eating now, please!

Yesterday I spend the afternoon washing the fabric we bought…

and then I organized my fabric stash. Here’s some of them…

I’ve tied up and tagged some of them to be cut and made into jeans, jackets, skirts, dresses, and bags for dolls…

Okay, now off on errands to get materials for a light box and pickup an orphan.

Happiness!

Happy Clothes!

I’ve been working on the signature outfit for Maya for use in the Happy Doll Threads banner. Here’s what I’ve come up with, so far…

Now, on to making happy clothes for Oona and Anouk, too.

Happiness!

Self-portrait pullip doll

Hi everyone.

I’ve been working on Nahh-aahto’s face up to make her a self-p doll.

It wasn’t as easy as I thought. Or should I say it was more complicated than I thought?

First issue was the head was made of vinyl instead of resin which the other pullip doll’s head are made off. So this means its more prone to disasters during the sanding phase.

I’ve had to re-do the whole thing 5 times before I came up with an acceptable result.

At one point I just wanted to find a replacement head but that’s not possible because that would mean buying a new doll. Agh!

After much agonizing I settled for…

I cut down my old reading glasses and adjusted it to fit her. Thanks to my trusty old dremmel stylus and John who gave it to me for Christmas.

Does she look like me yet?

I’m not closing the door yet on this though. I may or may not tinker with her face again. I just need to let my nerves recover from all the stress then I can be calm enough to make an objective decision. LOL!

So I’m off to other mollying for now.

Happiness!

Their here!

My tow other Pullip dolls arrived yesterday. I was happy and relieved to pick them up from the post office.

Here they are in their box…

Anouk in the box in her stock clothes and wig…

Maya in the box in her stock clothes & wig…

Here’s the girls for their first photo together…

The sister’s…

Oona was happy to see her younger sister, Anouk at last.

Maya’s initial make-over…

I changed her wig and got her into a new dress and shoes.

I’m working on her face at the moment and her eye chips.

Will post more photos after.

Hope your all having a good Holloween, everyone!

Happiness!

Coping with no computer

My laptop wouldn’t turn on yesterday. I had more time to sew because of that and only got it repaired today.

Here’s what I’ve finished so far…

Frog Prince Tunic set. Available on etsy.

Frog Prince Jammies, available on etsy.

Sewing helped steady my nerves from fraying the last two days. I never realized how dependent I am on my computer. Its like my gateway to the world and I felt isolated without it.

I’ve gotten a jump start on sewing stuff I wanted to do so its turned out for the better.

Happiness!

The Cocoon Doll Carrier

Hi everyone. I finished making the doll carrier for Taeyang dolls

Here are details shots of the closure…

Available in my etsy shop now.

Its the same basic construction as The Cocoon (TM) for Pullips/ Blythes or Dal dolls but longer in length to accommodate the longer legs of the Taeyang dolls.

Now the boys don’t have to be wrapped in towel anymore. You can now carry them in the safety of The Cocoon without worrying about protecting their precious limbs.

Happiness!

Happy Doll Threads Shop

I was finally able to put up a shop on etsy for doll fashion, accesories and merchandise for Pullip/ Dal/ Blythe & Taeyang dolls.

My etsy store banner for now…

Here’s my product tags for the doll carrier…

Here’s the first product I listed…

and the resulting mess…

Now off to bed I go.

Happiness!

Adventures in making a doll carrier

After finishing the lining of the cheap coffin shaped bag and turning it into a doll carrier bag, I realized that the straps and ties aren’t enough to protect the dolls from the wear and tear of being transported around in such a flimsy bag. I decided to make a cocoon sleeping bag type carrier to address this issue.

I never realized what an enormous task it is to make a sleeping bag. That I was making it at 1/6th scale made it even more difficult.

First there was the zipper installation. It has always been my least favorite task in sewing but I was determine to finishing what I started so I pressed on. After I turned out the pieces I realized I had sewn it wrong side out. I agonized whether I was going to re-do it or abandon production. I decided to finish it and figure out the solution later.

Zipping it closed wasn’t much of an issue. Unzipping it was. I needed a way to be able to unzip it once its closed. Here’s the solution I cam up with. I installed a grommet on the other end of the zipper and strung the zipper pull with string so it could be pulled open from the outside. It worked! Here it is after hours of figuring out how to zip and unzip it.

Here it is after I figured out the solution…

Now I can carry my dolls using any bag that was big enough. I won’t need to bring the coffin bag when I’m only bringing one doll.

I made two more today. Here they are ready to go on my etsy shop…

Happiness!

Oona’s new hair

I had my first doll meet tonight. I’m still waiting for the photos. I forgot to bring my camera so Joanna took photos and will send me some.

I also bought Oona an orange wig. Chayenne made it and put it on her tonight.

Here’s she is excited to model it when we got home…

I think I’ll keep her hair this way. The shade matches her eyebrows and her eyeliner color.

Happiness!