A Little Snaps

Well, I didn't get much crafting done today, but I did get two outfits fully finished. Just wanted to share them really quick. One is Belle's green dress and one is Jasmine's red pant outfit with the new top I fashioned for it. Enjoy the pictures!

Relay for Life

After tonight, I just can't not do this. Sorry for those readers who this makes cry. But this post goes out to Dave. Those who need to know, know. We miss you so much Dave!

I spend the evening after finishing my sermon (see previous post) not knitting but rather spending the evening out at the Relay for Life (a fundraiser/awarness event for the American Cancer Society) with the mother of the little girl who I am making the dresses for and her two kids. It was a good time and spending some time playing with her kids was great too. I got a beautiful picture of the two of them and if I get the okay from the mom, I'll post it here so all of you following the story of the dresses all over the world can see the cute little girl who these dresses are going to and her brother. Here is one picture from the Relay which I can share. This is a picture of the illuminaries that were right in front of us that had been decorated up in rememberance of those who have passed on from cancer and as a symbol of hope for a cure.

Well, even though I haven't updated knitting progress in a few days, I actually have done some knitting. I have one just almost completed outfit (just missing snaps) and an almost replacement piece (again, just missing snaps). I hope to get the snaps on before work tomorrow. (If you are wondering why snaps take so long, it's because I have to hand sew them on).

First up is Belle's navy cape. I am determined to finish this soon. This first picture is actually just after I finally got past the shoulders in the pattern.

This is how little room I have to work with on the needle with the cape now. I wish I could find longer needles, but the big box craft stores in my town just don't carry them, and we have no LYS (local yarn store) here, so my only choice would be to order it online. Sigh. Maybe in time. For now, I'll make do with what I have. It's not going to get much wider anyway.

So, what do you do when you have a Latin test to study for that really takes too much concentration to be able to knit while you are studying? Why, you roll balls of yarn, of course. I had some skeins I had used and some skeins that just needed to be rolled up, all for the dress project, so I sat and rolled balls of yarn while studying my Latin text book. Et tu Brute? Oh, wait. No, not that. LOL.

And what do you do after you Latin test while you are waiting for  your ride to finish her Latin test? Why, you knit, naturally. I took Mulan with me to work on her shift. This picture won't be going in the final video montage because I want it to all be the same background, but this is how much I got done after my Latin test waiting on my roommate to finish her test. Mulan now has a mini-dress! Well, I guess actually longer than that by today's standards. A tea-length dress then.

Oh, and that blue shirt that I thought was her overshirt for traveling between the bathers and the dressers, yeah, not just an overshirt. It's part of the whole matchmaker outfit. You can see the collar of it sticking out from under the kimono in this shot of her from the "Honor to Us All" song sequence. So, I guess I am starting with her matchmaker kimono...

Back home and a little bit more done on the shift. It's long enough now that I can have Mulan sitting again and not have to try to balance the doll stand on the blanket. If you're noticing the DPN sticking out behind her back, no, it's not coming out of the stitches at the bottom of the shift. I used the working DPN to pull together the back and keep it together (in loo of using a safety pin) while I was taking the picture.

The next few pictures are from the replacement piece. I've not been happy with the way the top turned out to Jasmine's red pants outfit, so I decided to try a different approach for the shirt. I took the design I made for the purple top and took off the arm bands for this one to see if it would work. I took a few pictures to have a neat little progression montage. This is just after cast on.

Two rows in. I'm using the slipped stitch method again to make the V-dip in the front of the shirt.

Four rows...

6 rows...

8 rows, almost done...

10 rows and ready for cast off...

The piece off the needles...

And wrapped around Jasmine. I still have snaps to put on the top, but I think this one is going to work a lot better. It fits more snug than the last one. If it works, I'll make a new portrait picture.

Ah, the almost finished piece, and about time. This first picture is from Wednesday night. How do I know (besides being able to look at the time stamp on the photo)? The background is one of the tables at my work. Wednesday nights was the night in which me and my roommate went to dinner at my work to see the mom of the little girl I'm making these dresses for (at least up till next week, when I will be working Wednesday nights as well. Yeah for upped hours. Boo for less crafting time). Wednesday night was another history lesson, and so I knitted again. You can see by the picture, the dress is just almost to length.

And back at home. Here I have Belle laying on top of the dress to measure the length of the skirt on her. It's just about time to finally cast off the skirt.

There were so many stitches on the circular needle that when I did finally go to cast off, I had to put a tip protector on the other end of the circular needle to keep the stitches from falling off the back side of the needle, but it sure did make it close quarters in the first little bit of working the stitches off the needle with the crochet hook!

Finally off the needles! It's been about a month since I started this dress.

And here is the dress with all the ends darned in on Belle. It's just almost finished now. Just have to add the sleeves to make it look like her dress.

And here I am starting to make the sleeves. While I had a pattern for the dress, I had to design the sleeves myself. While I wasn't really worried about the sleeves themselves, I wasn't quite sure how to do the billow at the shoulder. So I did my best.

Here I am measuring the billow portion on Belle. I think it is going to work.

Starting the actual sleeve portion.

Measuring on Belle once again.

Here is the cast off sleeve on Belle, it just needs to be sewn together.

And sewn together. This was at the end of Wednesday night. It was getting late and I decided to wait to do the other sleeve until the next day. I also wanted to take a picture of the skirt actually draping on the doll rather than being laid out flat on the bed or table, so Belle got placed on the doll stand back on the bookcase with the other dolls. If you look closely at Mulan behind her, you will see how short Mulan's shift was before I worked on her after my Latin test. Sitting bored is condusive to getting knitting done.

And this was last night (Thursday) after I worked the second sleeve. The dress is about 99% finished at this point, it just needs snaps. I meant to get it on this evening after finishing my sermon, but I actually didn't get any crafting done today at all. I will finish up this dress tomorrow and get portrait pictures of her. Then I just have three more of Belle's dresses to finish up.

Do you think it looks close? I know that I only used two greens when technically there are three greens in the dress in the movie, but I am working with the yarn colors I have available to me and I think the darker green works just fine on the sleeves as well as the bodice.

I really enjoyed this pattern and dress and am happy that I'm not done with it. I have at least three more dresses which I will be making out of this pattern. At a second look of the final picture of Belle's dress, I realized that I was looking at the same design which is used for all three of Rapunzel's dresses. I guess I will be doing Rapunzel soon. :-)

156 DAYS REMAINING!

Sermon on Micah 1:2-7

Okay, I know not all of my readers are religious people, and even more are not Christians, but I wanted to share this. My first sermon! Well my first written one anyway. So, consider this your forewarning. If you don't like Bible/Christian stuff, don't keep reading. Just ignore this post and wait for the next one. I'll be back with an update on doll dresses later. But if you would like to see what I am up to in my divinity courses, please feel free to read on.

This sermon is my intellectual property. Please do not steal it.

In America today, we live in a relatively free and lavish society. Even with the current economic crisis, we go about our daily lives with little concern or worry what tomorrow is going to bring. Day in and day out, we go to work, we go to the stores, we spend time with friends and family without worrying about someone coming in and telling us that we can’t go to work, we can’t go to the store, and we can’t even see the friends and family we would like. If someone came into the church today, or into our markets, or into our city streets, and said that tomorrow another country, say China, was going to come in, take over America, kill some of her citizens, and send the rest into exile, we would probably laugh right in their face.

This must have been what it was like for the Old Testament prophets. Imagine with me for a moment what it must have been like in eighth century B.C. for the average Hebrew. A dusty street runs between houses where children are running around outside playing. Women are here and there attending to the daily duties of the household – the laundry, the cooking, and the general keep of the house – while the men have gone off to work – perhaps to the vineyards or the threshing floors, maybe to the fishing ships, or perhaps to the market place. While the strong kingdoms of Babylon and Assyria surrounded the small kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the average Hebrew probably would not have given much thought to the threat that these powerful kingdoms posed. If anything, the average Hebrew of the eighth century B.C. lived as the average American does today, in ignorance with a seemingly blissful life free of the cares and worries of tomorrow.

It was into this simplistic countryside atmosphere that eighth century B.C. prophets like Micah stepped out into to give their message from God to the people. According to Micah 1:1, Micah was from the town of Moresheth-Gath located west of Hebron and twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem. Contemporaries with Micah would have included Isaiah, Amos – who had just finished his ministry to the northern kingdom – and Hosea, who also prophesied to the northern kingdom. Presumably, Micah was from the tribe of Judah as he came from the area where the tribe of Judah lived.

Micah’s message, like so many other prophets of his time, was a simple one: a call to the holy, chosen people of God to repent and return to the Lord or they would face the wrath of a vengeful and jealous God. But Micah’s message was more that just a call to the chosen people, to the inhabitants of Israel and Judah. In this oracle given in verses two through seven, Micah’s very first words are a call to all of mankind: “Listen, all you nations! Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth!” Just imagine how the people who heard his message begin like that must have reacted! I would imagine that some of them would have reacted with indignation, especially those Gentiles who would have heard his message – “How dare a Hebrew tell them what to do!” And a Hebrew’s reaction? “Well, why should we be worried what that crazy prophet has to say to all the other nations? We are God’s chosen people after all.” Poor Micah! Even just to get a listening audience for his words from God must have felt like he was beating his head against a brick wall! Micah may have even felt that a brick wall would have listened more!

But audience or not, Micah delivered his message, and boy was it an accusation! So much was his accusation a leveling of God’s demands against the chosen people, in this case Samaria and Judah specifically, that this oracle is known as a divine covenant lawsuit. God was taking HIS people to court! And Micah was to act as the herald for God. He was to bring God’s subpoena to appear and take account for their actions to the residents of Samaria and Judah. Micah cries out to those who will listen, “The sovereign Lord will testify against you; the Lord will accuse you from his majestic palace.” Now I don’t know about you or the ancient Hebrews, but a subpoena like that would have terrified me! Not only were you being called to court, but you were being called to court by the supreme God! Think for a moment how you would have answered. What would you do if someone came today and said, “God has spoken to me. HE has said that HE is very angry and displeased with you and HE wants you to account for your actions in front of the whole world!” Personally, I think I would run and hide. Or at least would have felt like running and hiding. Or maybe beg for forgiveness and hope that my cries were heard. But was this the answer of the ancient Hebrews? No. They didn’t listen to Micah, or any of his contemporary prophets, and thus, God had to take action against HIS chosen people, actions out of both HIS supreme justice and HIS supreme love, actions that would ultimately result in the conquering and exiling of the Hebrews by first Assyria and then by Babylon.

And Micah even warns the Hebrews of this coming of Assyria when he levels God’s accusation against the Hebrews. He specifically states that Samaria will be destroyed for her sins against God, for her breaking of the covenant which HE had established with HIS people, first with Abraham and then with Moses and the people of Israel in the desert. Not only will Samaria be destroyed, but she will be utterly destroyed. Micah cries out the warning: “I will turn Samaria into a heap of ruins in an open field!” and “I will tumble the rubble of her stone walls down into the valley and tear down her fortifications to their foundations.” The destruction of a city to its utter ruin brings to mind some other scenes from the Old Testament. I think first of the city of Jericho. We have the account of Joshua and the Israelites coming up to the city of Jericho and having to march around the city for days before finally, at the appropriate signal, the walls of Jericho would fall with the sounding of the trumpets by the Israelites. The Israelites had to work to topple Jericho. Now, somehow, I don’t think that this is the type of utter destruction Micah is foretelling of for Samaria. His message seems to be a much more urgent one. I think more of like a scenario like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, an instant in time where God utterly destroyed a pair of cities for their unfaithfulness to HIM. But whether Samaria was to be utterly destroyed like Jericho or like Sodom and Gomorrah, the ruin of Samaria would seem an impossibility to the Hebrews of Micah’s day, for “Samaria’s great palace had walls 5 feet thick made of fine ashlar masonry and its city walls were 30 feet thick. It would have seemed impossible that these would be utterly destroyed, pulled down in the valley and left a heap.”[1] Think about how you would react if someone told you that they were going to utterly destroy Fort Knox. Or how you felt on 9/11 when the World Trade Center Towers fell. These are scenarios that we, in our wildest imaginations, would never imagine could happen. This must have been how the ancient Hebrews felt when they heard Micah’s words foretelling of Samaria’s fall and utter destruction.

But as radical as the utter destruction of Samaria would have been for the Hebrews to imagine, Micah brings even more destruction in his message, in fact, he levels this part of the reaction to the accusations brought by the Lord before he tells of Samaria’s destruction. Micah says that not only is God going to level a lawsuit against the Hebrews and their actions, but HE is going to come down from HIS divine palace to level HIS accusations against the Hebrews, and HIS coming down brings drastic consequences, not on an established city like Samaria, but on the vary nature of the earth herself! Micah lists four different natural disasters that will occur when the Lord leaves HIS dwelling place and descends upon the earth’s mountaintops: 1) “the mountains will disintegrate,” 2) “the valleys will be split in two,” 3) “the mountains will melt like wax,” and 4) “the rocks will slide down like water cascading down a steep slope.”

For those of us here in the flat, endless plains of West Texas, these natural disasters seem distant and inconsequential, but for the Hebrews, who were surrounded by a hilly and low mountain terrain, they would have been a real threat. The mountains disintegrating and melting like wax seem to signify a natural disaster like that of a volcano erupting, which could have drastic consequences not only for those in the immediate area, but possibly even for the whole world. Those of us who are younger like myself would not remember the 1980 explosion of Mt. St. Helen’s, but I remember hearing stories from my parents and seeing pictures of the utter devastation this volcano erupting caused. It wasn’t just for the immediate area in the state Washington, but for the whole country and even the whole world. The ash from her explosion would reach around the world, blocking the sun and creating a haze that would last for days and even weeks in some areas. My mom would relate how even here on the South Plains of West Texas, she has to wear a medical mask just to breathe outside through the ash particles in the air. If a volcanic eruption had that devastating of an effect in modern times where we have the equipment needed to handle its after-effects, just imagine what it would have been like if a volcanic eruption like that happened in eighth century B.C.

Or the valleys being split in two? Sounds like an earthquake to me, which do occur occasionally in the Middle East region, but it’s not something that we here in West Texas can really relate to. I think of the confusion that is caused when the small earthquakes occurring two hours south of here can be felt here. Imagine the confusion which would occur with an earthquake strong enough to rip the valley in two, to literally open the ground up. I think of the recent quakes over the last decade or so which have shocked the nation and even the entire world. As a young teen, I remember watching the devastating pictures of the 1994 Northridge earthquake which happened just outside of Las Angeles, California. Buildings were destroyed. Freeways and flyovers were collapsed on top of one another. It was one of the most devastating earthquakes the U.S. had seen in recent years. But in more recent years, who could forget the devastating earthquakes that hit Haiti and Chili in the spring of 2010 or the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that threatened to destroy Japan just over one year ago! Whether it was in a third world country unable to muster enough resources on its own to care for its displaced citizens or a first world country with the capacity to survive on its own for many years to come, these earthquakes threatened destruction on these countries and had effects which were felt all over the world, and in some cases are still being felt. An earthquake to split the valleys in two would crumble the world today; in ancient times, it would collapse the entire infrastructure!

And lastly, the rocks would slide down the mountain like a waterfall. A rockslide is perhaps the one natural disaster we West Texans could actually relate to. Not a rockslide per say, but at the very least, a large movement of dirt. In an area where you can see the dirt hanging in the air if the wind blows too much, just imagine that happening with rocks! More than trees and power lines would be uprooted! It would be more like the force of a tornado than a dust storm. I remember one year when I was a teen when my family had gone to southwest Colorado for vacation one summer. It was my first experience with mountains and I was in awe of it from the moment I could see the Rockies on the edge of the horizon. But as majestic as the mountains were, they could be deadly, too. Before we could arrive at our destination in Durango, we were diverted not once, not twice, but three different times to three different highways all to avoid the same rockslide which had covered the roadways. And even on the third detour, we still had to skirt around the bulldozers and other machines they brought in to clear the rockslide. An entire mountain top had crumbled and sent itself flying down the mountainside! Even as we were passing the construction site, we could hear an ominous roar coming from behind us. We were flagged to pull over to the side of the road in what was deemed a “safe zone.” We were allowed to step outside of our car and were able to watch as movement up on toward the top of the slide zone caused the rockslide to shift again and set itself in motion once again! A rockslide is not just a single occurrence, but rather, like earthquakes and volcanoes, has aftershocks and far reaching effects. When my family returned to Colorado the following year, we passed by the area where the rockslide had occurred. The path of the rockslide was still evident and in the valley below the mountain, piles upon piles of rocks still sat, waiting to be removed. The one house in the area had been displaced from its foundation by the rockslide and still sat nearly four hundred yards away from its foundation in the valley floor. And yet, Micah doesn’t warn of one of these natural disasters, but rather, of all of them. These disasters will happen when the Lord comes out of HIS dwelling place to accuse Samaria and Judah of their sins against HIM and against the covenant which HE established with their ancestors. 

Even with the heralding of the devastating news which Micah brought, the Hebrews of Samaria and Judah did not head his warning. They kept on with their ways, breaking the covenant which God had made with them, and in return, God kept HIS promise and brought the utter devastation and ruin upon them and their cities.

This ignoring of God’s call has happened many times when HE declared HIMSELF to those whom HE calls HIS own. Like the Hebrews of the eighth century B.C., many Hebrews, and many more Gentiles, did not hear or heed God’s call in the first century A.D. when HE sent HIS messenger, John the Baptist, and even HIS own Son, to call the people back to HIM. How many people today do you know who ignore the call of the Lord? Or maybe perhaps they are waiting on a Micah to bring them the word of the Lord? Will you hear HIS call? Will you heed HIS call?

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[1] Eric A. Mitchell, “Micah – The Man and His Times,” Southwestern Journal of Theology 46.1 (2003): 68.

If you have read down to the bottom here, I hope that you have enjoyed my "sermon" - even written as it is. Though  I must say, I never thought my first fully written sermon would been on the Old Testament, much less on a Minor Prophet! Thanks for reading!

More Videos - Phone Friendly :)

Okay, so after I posted the last video and looked at my blog on my phone, I realized there was a problem, namely, I was an idiot and didn't think about the fact that unless you have a Windows phone, your phone can't view .wmv videos, which is what the last video was made in. So, with the addition of another program I have (thankfully), I was able to covert the video to a .mpg4 video file, which is viwwable on other phones and mobile devices. And yes, I realize that for those who are not tech people, this means nothing. So, long story short, you can view the following videos on computer, most mobile phones, iPods, and iPads (I also reformated the first video).

Crafting Video

So my phone has this neat little feature that allows you to look at a slide show while music is playing. I had put all of the pictures that I took of Jasmine's purple pants into one folder and put it to a slide show of "A Whole New World." Which gave me an idea. I wanted to be able to share the slide show with you who are reading my blog. But I had no idea how to do it other than it would require getting it up on YouTube so that I could share it. Well, a little bit of googling on how to make a YouTube video, some playing around with Windows Movie Maker, and guess what? I have a video for you guys! I hope you enjoy it. It's about three minutes long.

I wish that it let you choose the picture that would be up for when you were waiting to play the video. Oh well. I should have the other completed outfits' videos to share soon.

From Start to Finish, A Royal Outfit

Well, I know it's been a few days since I have updated, but that's because I really wanted to do a start to finish post of at least one outfit in the project and the outfit which I started Saturday night after work was perfect for it because it turned out to be a quick make. Just one quick thing before getting to that outfit, a progress photo to share. While working on researching one of my last papers for the semester, I did some knitting while reading articles. Since I was having to read, I needed a piece that was just straight knitting, maybe a little measuring, but no counting. That translated to working on Mulan's shift. It's just almost to her knees now. I don't forsee this one taking much longer to finish.

A Photo Progression of the Making of a Princess Outfit

Well, here it is. Start to finish, one post, one outfit. It took me about nine hours spred out over three days to make it . While the background isn't as nice as my green blanket that I'm using for Mulan's shift (though I should have taken it on there, that would have been cool), I did manage to take all the pictures but the final "portrait studio" picture in the same spot on the blanket on my bed. It actual is the same spot that has ended up as the background of a lot of my photos. If you're wondering what it is, the brown is the hair of an angel, the blue-green his wing; the blanket is a picture of two cherubs. Okay, without further ado, the outfit.

Now, I know you want to know which outfit it is. It will be clear enough before you get to the end picture where my mom has spliced the portrait studio picture together with a movie shot of the outfit, but if you are impaitent, I guess you can look at the last picture in the post to see the finished product. Warning, this post is very picture heavy; I took just over fifty photos in the progression of this outfit. I designed this outfit myself.

Here I am starting the top of the outfit on the circular. I find the circular need works well to work stuff that is worked flat. That, and you can't find a straight needle in a size 0 or 1 without ordering online and there are too many stitches for it to fit on one DPN. This picture is just after I started the third row. (Oh, and if you aren't sure what color the yarn is, it is a darker but not deep purple. It's called grape, and it's about that color).

Oops. Second picture and I messed up my photo count already. I meant to take a picture after every two rows, but I just got carried away with knitting. This is near the end of row five.

Just a few stitches later at the beginning of row six. If you are wondering why the stitching looks different here, it's because you are looking at the back side of the piece. I always try to take pictures with the front side facing, but not this one. I am about to make the arm holes. The problem? I forgot how I did it the first time. LOL. The sleeve design on this piece is the same as on Aurora's ball gown, but apparently I forgot to write down how I designed the sleeves on that one. And thus I am very glad that I decided to keep a journal of this project on my blog complete with pictures. I was able to pull up the pictures I took of Aurora's sleeves and figure out just how I designed them. Yeah for technology!

And here I am just at the end of row seven. I managed to remember how to do the armholes for the sleeves and have them waiting on the stitch holders and have yarn ends everywhere.

This picture is just after row nine was finished. You can kind of see the V-dip in the front of the top. I discovered a better way of making the V-dip than the way the pattern I have used for the ball gowns says to do it. The pattern for the ball gowns calls for you to carry the working yarn under the stitches at a certain point and gather it together using a stitch. Here, I have slipped a stitch (AKA didn't work it) for a few rows so that it pulls the cast on row down with it. It makes a much cleaner V-dip in my opinion.

Ah, first clue as to the outfit if you haven't snuck a peek at the last picture. Here I am measuring the length on the doll. Jasmine. It's one of her tops. Can you guess which outfit yet? It needs just one more row in garter stitch to keep the top from rolling up as stockinette stitch has a tendency to do.

And the top off the needles with yarn ends everywhere and the arm holes still on the stitch holders.

Back on Jasmine after I darned in the yarn ends. I'm really happy with the way the shirt design turned out. Actually, while I was writing this pattern down from my chicken scratching notes, I got to thinking that I might be able to make a better fitting red top for Jasmine (the one I've made just falls off the doll) using the base of this design. I may try it in the next few days.

Working on the sleeves. Since there's no shaping to them, I just took pictures every four rows to show progress. Row 4...

Row 8...

Row 12...

Row 16...and should be long enough now...

Back on Jasmine and getting a measurement, yep, it's long enough.

Casted off the needles and a yarn end to sew up the seam.

On Jasmine with the sleeve sewn together.

A second sleeve just appeared!!!! LOL. I wish. I just decided not to take the same pictures of the second sleeve as that would be boring. So I just took a picture after I had the second sleeve sewn together. The top is now about 99% complete.

And on to the pants. Keeping in mind the misfortune of the red pants being too short, I decided to add more rows at the first to give it some length at the waist. Again, I took pictures every two rows at the start of the pants. Row 2...

Row 4...

Row 6 and the stockinette stitch is beginning to roll...

Row 8...

And measuring eight rows against Jasmine. Seems like its going to work better than the way I had the red pants designed.

Row 10 and I have added in the increases to start on the pant legs.

Row 2 of pant leg one...

Row 4...and every two rows is going to be very boring for pictures, so I won't bore you with that, I changed to every four rows...

Row 8...

Row 12...the pictures made counting rows very easy. It's a little boring on a blog though, I'm sorry.

Row 16...

Oops...forgot row 20's picture, this is a few stitches into row 21...

Row 24 and it's reached length....

So it was time to put the cuff in. If these seem smaller than the pictures of the red pants, they are. I'm not sure how though. The yarn is both Caron Simply Soft. I used the same needles. And if anything, the purple pants should be bigger. But the legs weren't. I'm wondering if I'm stitching tighter on the purple pants than I did on the red pants.

And finished off with a long tail for sewing up the seam.

Measuring the pant leg on Jasmine. It seems to fit the doll the same as the red pants though. I'm not sure what was going on with them.

Okay, so I wanted to see the other pant leg progress too, so you get photos of pant leg two. Row 4...

Row 8...

Row 12...

Row 16...

Row 20...

Row 24...

Cuff made...

And casted off with a sewing tail.

I was worried that this pants had stitched up smaller than the red pants, so before sewing them all together, I measured them on Jasmine. At this point I could still frog the pants if I needed to and remake them. But when I laid them on the doll and wrapped the pants around her legs, they seemed to fit just fine, so I went ahead with the sewing.

All sewn up. Yes, the pants are still not to her waist, but that's okay on these. I still had to add the lighter edging to the waist band. And they aren't quite as short on the legs as they look in this picture. They just were not cooperating for this picture.

Here is the top and pants with the lighter purple edging on them. Since it was a smaller edging that really looks like a waist band on this outfit, I just crocheted the edging on this time instead of knitting one row on the top and two on the pants. It made for a better waist band on the pants anyway. Just have the tail ends to darn in.

And back on Jasmine with the tail ends darned in. The outfit now is about 95% complete at this point, but it's missing more than just the snaps. Have you figured out which one it is? Well, it's the purple pant outfit. I don't think it's in the first movie (there the purple outfit is a dress), but she wears it in The Return of Jafar. And like the dress, it has a wrap around the waist.

So here's the wrap. It just barely reaches past her hips on the pant outfit (unlike the dress where it is down to about her knees), so I didn't think it was going to take that long. Here's after two rows.

And after it has reached lenght. It went so quick, I forgot to take progress pictures of it. But it is only ten rows long at 36 stitches wide at its widest point.

Off the needles and wrapped around Jasmine. It just needs the edging on it now.

I'm almost done with the picture progression, I promise. Here is the wrap with the edging on it, once again crocheted. Oops...forgot to darn in that end.

Okay, that's better. Not a very big piece at all.

And wrapped around Jasmine. 99% completed now. Just have to sew on snaps...

And something a little extra. This is the first outfit I have done that has an emblishment that can't be done with yarn. She has a little gem on the wrap. Okay, it's not so little. But here I have replicated it with beads sewn on to the skirt.

And here we are. Finished product!!! If I had a day to myself with no work or school work, I could have made the outfit in one day. Nine hours. And the price sticker of this piece? (just because I was curious since I was able to time out the progress with the time stamps on the photos) Using the formula told to me by my artist coworker, this is about $70. Not that I think I could get anyone to buy such a simple outfit for that. Nor could I see charging that much for this little outfit.

And here is the studio picture. I really am happy with how this outfit turned out. I have always loved this outfit, and I like it even more having made it. At some point in time, I may have to make this for myself to keep on my Jasmine doll when she's not modeling. Provided I don't fall in love with another one of her outfits first. LOL.

And here she is with the movie photo. Once again, I'm pleased with how this one turned out. :)

And unfortunately tomorrow is my long day at work, so I won't be crafting much tomorrow. I probably won't have an update tomorrow night, but I promise I will try to update on Wednesday night at the latest.

160 DAYS REMAINING!