{"id":52,"date":"2004-08-20T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts2\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T14:55:37","slug":"barbie-wardrobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/2004\/08\/barbie-wardrobe.html","title":{"rendered":"Barbie wardrobe"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The pattern included scrubs for both Ken and Barbie. Ken had green scrubs and Barbie had pink. The hell with that. Barbie doesn’t have to be a nurse. Everyone on ER wears blue. Besides, blue was what I had. This was a McCall pattern. Making that pocket was tricky. It’s just so tiny! Then came an even thornier problem: getting the elastic through the waistband. I know the principal of threading elastic. You scootch it through with a safety pin. But where to find a safety pin small enough to go through a 1\/4″ tunnel? I must have spent an hour trying to thread that elastic.<\/p>\n


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I love this fabric but not this dress. This was a Simplicity pattern and they tend to use shortcuts. In this case, gathers instead of pleats. It makes for a bunchy waistline that doesn’t drape well. I have a very similar pattern from Vogue with pleats that came out much nicer when I made it.<\/p>\n


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The coat has very short sleeves. That’s because the pattern fooled me (for the second time – more fool me). It says 5\/8″ seam allowances unless otherwise noted. I was so excited about it too. I don’t care how small Barbie is, working with 1\/4″ seam allowances is tricky on your own fingers, especially with any kind of fabric that wants to unravel. But on the next page it says 1\/4″ seam allowances unless otherwise noted. <\/p>\n

So I had done the first few steps which joined the back to the sides (and clipped the seams, of course) when I got to the collar and realized that if I took 5\/8″ off of each side it was going to meet in the middle. That’s when I found the second note. It didn’t seem to make a whole lot of difference in the fit except that the sleeves came out so short, which is odd because I hadn’t hemmed the sleeves yet. Now I’ve crossed out the 5\/8″ note and circled the 1\/4″ note so that it doesn’t fool me the third time I use a pattern from this envelope. <\/p>\n

This was from the Vogue envelope. Vogue doesn’t take shortcuts with Barbie. She gets linings and darts and pleats and pretty much everything you’d expect from a real pattern except set in sleeves (and 5\/8″ seam allowances).<\/p>\n


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Her belt\/waistband is actually a piece of ribbon. That’s a pretty common solution to the problem of how to make what would be skinny pieces even for humans. It’s not always easy finding 1\/4″ or smaller ribbon to match whatever project you’re working on though. I think this dress is lovely. I believe it was from one of the Simplicity envelopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pattern included scrubs for both Ken and Barbie. Ken had green scrubs and Barbie had pink. The hell with that. Barbie doesn’t have to be a nurse. Everyone on ER wears blue. Besides, blue was what I had. This was a McCall pattern. Making that pocket was tricky. It’s just so tiny! Then came… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doll-clothes","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}