I made a deal with a couple of friends to go into three craft fairs this fall. Three!! OMG What Was I Thinking??
OK, they're in three different months. There is some space between them. I made a rule for myself, one day fairs where the cost to me would be below $50. You have to sell a lot of $5 items to make that back and show a profit.... And no driving many miles to get there, it has to be in the counties touching the one I live in. I can't/don't want to add the cost of a hotel room to the mix.
Good plan, right? And the first one isn't until October.
October! It's almost September now!
I checked my doll clothing stock. I have been doing things all along but I put it all in a box and don't think about it again. Well I guess I'd better start thinking about it!
I put some things up on the design wall, in outfits. The girls and their moms/grandmoms want things that go together. I learned last year that you can't just lay out the jeans and tops, you have to put them in sets.
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| I need some kind of top to go with that blue and white skirt on the bottom. |
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| The aqua and green striped top, the green top and one pink top came from discarded adult tee shirts. |
This is a portion of what was in the box from spring and summer.
I added some other things....
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| The denim skirt is made from the leg of a pair of jeans worn out by my DH. |
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| I made these patterns up as I went along... wish I had made some notes! |
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| Dresses can be made from scraps, they just take a quarter of a yard each. |
These and a few other pieces are all done... I have to sew some tops for the multiple number of jeans and denim skirts I made. I have multiples of the white pants and skirts too.
I was digging in my stash of tee shirt knits, I need to supplement with some pastel colors, specifically pink and blue plus maybe yellow. The pajama pants need some tops. I made some adorable zebra fleece hats and scarves but didn't take pictures.
My friend Carol and I are working on a plan... our color scheme is pink-purple-aqua-bright green, with denim and red tossed in for good measure. She's making some things, like robes and aprons, and I'm making others, like the tee shirts and pajamas. Hopefully when we get together to take inventory, we'll be working on the same plan! She's working independently so we haven't compared notes yet. Fingers crossed!
I am a little worried that after the October fair, I'll need to restock and there are only three weeks between that one and the one we're doing in November. So I'm cutting out huge stacks of basic things like denim skirts and white tee shirts, and I'll keep sewing until it's all done. Or until I get sick of it??
My youngest grand has her eye little on the black and white knit dress in the picture at the top, and this sweater...
I'd make another one, but the reason it has three colors in it is that I ran out of the main color after partway through. In my sizable yarn stash I have many things that were close, but not close enough! So I frog stitched it back to half of the yoke, added the other colors, and used the tiny bit that was left over for the base of the hat. I guess I could do one with different shades of peach or maybe pink and give her this one for Christmas!
I asked my sewing grand if she'd be willing to help me... maybe she could sew some simple pieces like pants, or do hems or something. She's thinking it over. I guess she's not motivated to earn any extra cash right now! But she did offer to make some doll jewelry... we'll see.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... I wish making clothes for myself was this easy!
Sew on...
