Belle
Now that I have the elastic for the sleeves, I was able to finish Belle's coat for her winter outfit. Only took about 15 minutes to complete the coat (if you don't count the probably 20 minutes I spent fighting with the fur to get the sleeves turned right side out...note to self, next time, put the elastic in, turn it right side out, then put the fur on).
Here's me putting the elastic in the first sleeve. The jacket is turned inside out and modeled by Jasmine (naturally, right? Actually, I didn't want to have to try to keep putting the jacket on over all of Belle's clothes and neither did I want to undress Belle just to have to put everything back on her for pictures. Jasmine was close by because I was working on her pants as well and her little tube top fit easily under the jacket without being in the way of the sleeves). What looks like a white string on her left hand (as you are looking at the picture) is actually the elastic. I didn't know they made string elastic that wasn't made for jewelry making.
The coat still turned inside out and on Jasmine, but both sleeves have elastic in them, just underneath the fur, so that the fur hides the sight of the elastic on the outside of the coat.
And after much hassel getting the fur on the sleeves to go through the tightened sleeve with the elastic, here is a picture of the completed outfit on Belle. My kitties had taken over my stool in the window (which is where I take the black background pictures - it's my black curtain and my black piano stool, lol), so I'm going to have to take final pictures tomorrow.
Do you think it looks like the one in the movie?
Jasmine (and the Egyptology Pants)
So for those of you that do not know, on Wednesday nights (at least for now, while I'm not working Wednesday nights - that's soon to change) my roommate and I go up to my work for dinner to see the mom of the little girl I am making all these dresses for. I always take a little something with me to show her the progress I am making. Like tonight, she got to see the completed Belle winter outfit. I also had with me the little bit I had done on Jasmine's pants. And that ended up to be a good thing. Because my boss came out and my roommate and he began to talk about history - namely ancient Egypt. Now, my boss is a history expert (history buff just doesn't even cover it with him) and you can learn a ton from him. And at the same time, you can learn a ton from him - meaning his history discussions can go on for a while. So what do you do when sitting at a dinner table listening to an Egyptology discussion? Why you knit a pair of doll's pants, naturally. I'm serious. I just nearly finished all of Jasmine's red pants sitting at the dinner table tonight.
Here is the last picture I posted of her pants to give a frame of reference how much work I got done at dinner tonight. I had about half of one leg done when tonight started.
Look, it's a pant leg! And I've started on the other leg! (Don't you love the lovely marble table background?) Oh, and let me add, this is after I have finished eating already.
Same amount done as the picture above, just of the other leg.
I think this was about midway through the discussion. It was the last picture I took at the restaurant. I have about half the second pant leg done already.
Shortly after getting home, I measured my progress on the second pant leg. I only had about 2 cm to go before making the cuff! Maybe I should knit at dinner with my boss giving a history lesson more often...
Two pant legs!!!! Now just to tuck in all those yarn ends and sew the pants up.
I started at the ankle of one pant leg and shortly after passing the cuff part, pulled it on to the doll. Since I am designing these pants, I needed to make sure the cuff would fit over the foot and onto the leg.
Here I am measuring the sewn leg on the doll to figure out just how much further up I needed to go and still leave room to sew the crouch in.
Inseams sewn in. I had to put the pants back on Jasmine to figure out just how to sew up the crouch where it would work. At this point, I am fearing that the waist line is going to be too short...
And it was. Here are the pants turned right side out (I put the hem in with the pants inside out, just like on Belle's jacket). You can see how much of Jasmine's hips are showing. I think I accidentally gave a new meaning to the word hip-huggers!
But it turned out to be a happy mistake. I picked up stitches on the waist band to extend it upwards. I also added a silver thread in to make a difference on the waist band in order to imitate the lighter portion of her pants (see the last picture in this post). Since the pants were already sewn up, it was basically like working in the round even though I was working in rows, so I had to put the row on 3 DPNs rather than just one.
Measuring the new waistline on Jasmine. I probably could have stopped here, after just two rows, but I wanted to make sure it was long enough. So I went on to add one more row and a cast off row - which adds just a little bit of heighth too. Now that I know the top portion of the pants has to be added on, I will do that first with her remaining pants and then sew up the seams - make it easier on myself.
And here is the outfit 99% done! Tomorrow I will have to tuck in the final yarn tails and sew on a snap. I really like the way this one turned out.
Does it look close enough?
165 DAYS REMAINING!
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