A Traditional Touch

It's been a while since I found some scrap fabric from my Thailand's songket. The size fit for one Barbie's skirt. But I just had time to make it and post it in here. This dress is kind of dress you used for a  wedding party or semiformal party in Indonesia. The top is easy to make. My aunt teach me how to make it. This fit barbie perfectly.

Pink Top & Gathered Skirt

I promise my niece dresses for her barbie on her birthday. And I had one week after my sister's wedding to prepared the gift. So I mix the gift between my hand crochet dress and the sewed one. She has nine 11.5" doll. So I need to add some new dress to the collection. Since the sewing machine ready to use, I tried new pattern I had. So this is the ninth dress I made for her. Still need more practice on sewing small dress. 

Plaid Peasant Dress & Jeans Slacks

I'm in the middle of preparing my sister's wedding. I have to make a few things with my sewing machine. Seeing some left over material makes me want to make something for my barbie. By the end of the day it turn out to be peasant dress and jeans slacks. This dress look nice and makes me want to make for myself :)

First Clothes for First Barbie

This is one of clothes I made for my first barbie. Simple cut and hand sewing only. Not bad for a young girl :) I made this maybe when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

Brocade Gown

Yes, I finally give a shower and hair wash to my barbie. She looks better now. I also had a change to looked into my old box and found some old dresses. I'll try to write a few articles about it. The first one will be the dress that made by one of my relatives. At that time she stayed at my house because she's on treatment for her cancer. While stayed at home, she made a gown for my barbie. Made from left over family dress material from my aunt's wedding dress. This is one of my favorite dress at that time. It was hand sewing.

Black Felt Jacket

This time I make the jacket with the same pattern I made for Steffi. The difference are in color and felt thickness. This is also had different neckline. The belt create with a silver lace as an accent to the jacket. With a match tote bag, Barbie ready to go.

Felt Vest

Easy vest to make. I got the pattern from here. I made it from black felt and add a ribbon on the bottom of the vest as decoration. 

Polka dot Dress

I got the pattern for the bodice from here. And I do a little bit modification on skirt. I bought the material and ribbon at Idee store in Bonn, Germany. Sewing small dress like this really need an effort. I like the way it turn out. 

Felt Boots

When I search some website about Barbie, I found one that show how to make a pair of boot from felt. It’s easy to make, so I make one pair for Steffi. Nice boot for winter :)

Black Slacks

The clothes collection did not complete without a pair of slacks. I create my own slacks pattern and try it out. I use black material to make a pair of slacks. It turn out not as I expected, but it seems OK for a while.

The slacks can be matched with white peasant top.

White Long Skirt

Need a match skirt for the peasant top, I make white long skirt with flower embroidery that match the top. I make my own pattern. 

White Peasant Blouse

I saw this blog and think about making it for Steffi. I use white material and adding some red flower embroidery to make it more colorful.

Black & White Dress

With the white and black material I found, I decided to make white & black dress. I used the same pattern with mantel, This dress will be a nice match with the felt mantel.

I used snap button on the back of the dress.

Felt Mantel

I run out of yarn. So I explore sewing stuffs that my friend had. In the box I found some felt material and also white and black material. I decided to make a mantel/jacket from dark blue felt.

After measured Steffi, I found out how to make basic pattern on the website. From that tutorial, I make a pattern for jacket. This is first pattern I make. because I learn to sew by autodidact. 

Not so bad for first pattern. The mantel turn out pretty nice. I add some chain embroidery around the mantel with silver thread. Add some belt to make it nicer. This mantel was hand sewing.