Yeah right!!!! Okay, I have officially hit I am ready to be done with school! I really want to be done and I still have a full year - three semesters - left. Ugh. Maybe if it weren't for all the papers, it would be okay. I'm just tired of assignments. Period. Just one more year, just one more year, just one more year....
This weekend all of the remaining of my school work for this semester is due, and I have to work Saturday night, so, sadly, I don't know how much crafting is going to get done this weekend, which makes me doubly sad because I had planned on spending all day Sunday working on stuff for the dress project...and a couple of other things too, but those are secret, no pictures or discussion, shhhhh. Well, I got one of the two major papers due this weekend out of the way today. Maybe I can get the other one and all the little stuff I have to do for my third class out of the way tomorrow around work so that I can still make Sunday a craft day. Well, I can wish that anyway, probably won't happen. And I haven't updated in two days either, which I'm sure is making some of you anxious for this post (yeah, you know who you are ;) ). Well, I have to say that I haven't gotten much crafting done in the past two days either, but I have gotten some photography done. :) I have final pictures for Belle's fur jacket outfit and Jasmine's red pants. I got another piece started too, though I didn't get much done on that last night before going to bed. I haven't done any crafting yet today because my paper I was writing today (due at midnight) took way longer than I thought it was going to. I do plan on crafting a little bit tonight, but I knew that a blog update would be looked for and since I was on my computer having just emailed off my paper and getting caught up on my Ravelry groups, I thought I would get a blog update done as well. :)
So final pictures first. I'm just going to post them with no comment. I hope they look enough like the movie pictures. :)
Since I finally figured out how to get studio lighting in the area where I was taking my pictures and Belle had her blue jumper outfit on underneath her fur jacket outfit, I took a new picture of that outfit with the better lighting, though I didn't pull out the apron to get another picture with the apron on her.
It was Christmas yesterday!!!!! My package from my sister came in! And to my surprise, Tiana was brand new!!!! She didn't know either, so it was a really nice surpise for both of us. Tiana has since been de-boxed and disrobed and is awaiting modeling duties.
New piece. This one is for Mulan. I won't really call it an outfit, because it is her shift that goes under all of her dress kimonos. If I have time I am going to make her one for each of the kimonos, but to start off with, I am just going to make one. I'll see what time allows. Here you can see it in pictures from the matchmaker sequence in the movie.
Middle picture, left side is the top of the shift.
Here it is under the light blue shirt she wears when going from the bathers to the make-up people. The blue shirt is next on the make list for her. Get the small stuff out of the way while I am waiting on the colors I need for her kimonos to be free.
Inspired by a suggestion for an artist coworker, I'm going to do all the pictures of this piece in "one" location so you can really compair them at the end. Okay, so one location is a little hard for me, so I'm using the same background, in this case a forest green blanket. Originally I thought I had a pattern I was going to follow for this piece other than the straps because the pattern didn't have any and I was going to work the pattern backwards in order to work the piece from top down (rather than bottom up like the pattern was written), but as it turns out, that pattern wasn't going to work. So, I'm winging it. I figure a shift has to be easier than Aurora's peasant dress.
Here I have just started on it. I have cast on and made the straps while working on a DPN.
Shortly after, though, I transfered it to my circular, which is much easier to work bodices on. This is just two rows later from the picture above.
And just a little bit further. I have made a decrease to account for the shaping of the bottom of the bodice on the doll.
And just almost at bodice length. I'm just about ready to do the increase for the waist and place it on the DPNs and work in rounds to create the seamless skirt.
Same work amount as above, just measuring it on Mulan. I'm hoping this doll will work okay as a model. She is the totally posable doll which Mattel created when they did the gymnist Barbie's to celebrate the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. I'm worried she won't work on the doll stand. We'll see.
After the picture above, I put it on to the DPNs and worked two more rows, adding in the increase, before starting to work it in rounds. Here is the piece put back on Mulan for safe keeping. While I'm worried how this doll will work on the doll stand, she sure does pose in a sitting position for a picture well.
With the fur jacket outfit finished and off my second Belle doll (I got another one in that big lot of dolls my sister help me get), I am able to put another dress on Belle. I moved the green dress over to Belle as it is the next dress most likely to be finished. I'm only about 15 rows off of finishing the skirt then it's just creating the sleeves. This is actually the dress I am going to work on tonight after posting this update.
While I was transfering dresses to other dolls, I took Aurora's peasant dress off the craft model doll I had it on and placed it on my second Aurora doll. All I can say is WOW!....
Another picture of my doll holding bookcase. I need more room. LOL. All but Belle's pink dress (which is just nearly hidden in the picture) are now on representative dolls of the correct princess. You can also see Esmarelda hanging out with them. It was easier to keep the hair I have worked on relatively tangle-free with her in the doll stand rather than just laying somewhere.
Mulan seems to stand in the doll stand pretty well, and where she is in the picture is where she has been for over 24 hours with no shifting in the stand. So I think she is going to work out.
163 DAYS REMAINING!!!!
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