I would love to show you a picture of this, in progress, but our camera batteries died, and the plug is nowhere to be found. 🙁

I have been working on a project I’ve been meaning to do for a long while.  There are patterns available in abundance for 18″ doll clothes.  And there are 18″ dolls.  And there are rag doll patterns.  But I have never been able to locate a pattern for a rag doll that will fit in the 18″ doll clothes.  So if you make a doll, you have to figure out what it is going to wear.  Sooo…for a long while I have been wanting to create a pattern for a doll that will fit into these clothes.  I had been putting it off and putting it off, because I found it a daunting prospect.  But I finally buckled down and did it.

And my pattern worked!  For some of the clothing, she’d probably need to be squished a bit, as a rag doll doesn’t hold its shape in quite the same way as a hard vinyl doll.  And the construction leaves a bit to be desired.  (I wasn’t sure what order to attach everything, especially since my doll had parts that the dolls I found online did not have.)  The head is a bit square, so I’d round it a little more next time.  But overall, it worked!  And she has actual feet that could go into shoes (keeping in mind the squishing part). 🙂

Sophia does not know that this doll is to be hers for Christmas, but she keeps saying, “Mama, I love your dollbaby.” 🙂

Unfortunately, said dollbaby is still bald and naked.  A friend found me directions for attaching hair, and I chose the “wig” method.  To attach the hair this way, you crochet a cap for the doll, tie the hair to the cap, then sew the cap to the doll’s head.  Yesterday evening, I crocheted the cap (and realized that I had never actually finished a crochet project!), and it is currently awaiting the remainder of its hair.  (The cap looks cute, though, and I’m thinking that perhaps I should attempt another small crochet project.  I’m still working on the baby blanket I started when I was eleven!)  We have decided to name the doll Aggie, as an adaptation of “agape,” since I made it because I love Sophia, and since Sophia keeps saying, “Mama, I love this doll.”  “Mama, I love her eyes.”  “Mama, I love her mouth.” lol

The girls were also to get an 18″ doll wardrobe for Christmas.  I don’t see that happening.  I will still make them a few outfits, I think, but I will not have time to make all of the clothes and things I had wanted to, so that will have to wait.  Next year, perhaps.

Does anyone know how I can scan these pattern pieces in and print/save them in such a way that they will remain the same size as the originals?