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Natural daylight is finally starting to reach through the windows again.

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Speaking of spare MTM Barbie hands with the boring "shovel hand" sculpt that I don't really care for... I did find a use for them, too.

I've been knitting some tiny doll-sized mittens like this

But they're annoying to put on doll hands, especially the more elegant sculpts with separate fingers. So, I realised, I can just take some spare mtm hands; the boring pose is actually useful for once; and use a craft knife to reduce the peg a bit to make the hands more easily swappable without having to heat them up every time.

Put the hand inside the mitten, and just swap the whole thing whenever I wanna put on or take off the dolls' mittens.

I already use MengF hands on most of my dolls, and they're easy to take off without heating. So I'll just take off the regular hand and replace it with the mitten hand! The skin tone match doesn't really matter since the hand will be hidden under the mitten anyway.

Ta-dah!

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I got this head without a body second-hand a couple years ago; I think she used to be a Cool Blue Barbie. I like the Y2K era Barbie aesthetic and face screenings, and I always found the Cool Colors dolls quite iconic, even though I never had any of them as a kid.

I originally put the head on a MTM body in some random clothing, and kinda forgot her standing on a doll shelf for a while.

I've been sewing a bunch these baggy pants with lots of details and excessive pockets, and I used this flower print fabric this time. The top with the shiny iridescent iron-on foil numbers is something I made a while ago, and it's been rolling around in my box of doll tops ever since. But then, after sewing the pants, I happened to try this combination of clothes on this doll, and she really found herself! I also made her a matching bag.

I think the cutesy flower print and iridescent foil numbers make this doll a bit more toyetic than my usual doll restyle aesthetic, but I think it suits her. I don't have a lot of "basic" blonde Barbies with her "main" face sculpts, because it would get boring quickly, but I think this one can represent the turn-of-millennium era and the Mackie sculpt in my collection.

I've been meaning to make her some clothing that's more of a callback to the original Cool Colors aesthetic too, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I have been working on patterns for overalls, though, and I do have some thin pastel corduroy in my stash...

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Dusty pinks and teals.

The pale pink poet shirt is one of several that I have sewn for my dolls this summer. The tote bags were also sewn earlier this summer. The hoodie with the partially mesh sleeves worn by the Looks Fryda doll and the baggy pink and teal pants worn by Letitia (the rerooted Looks Tamika doll) I made last winter. The teal print capris worn by Fryda (does she need a new name...?) were made at some point earlier, I don't remember exactly when.

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I made some new clothing for my dolls.

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Visiting friends during the holidays

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I made a new pattern for doll cargo pants, and I have been testing variations. These are... more or less inspired by Y2K fashion. Kit, Shani, and the rerooted redhead Looks Tamika doll I've named Letitia, are wearing these. I don't think I've ever put more than six real pockets on one pair of doll pants, but these all have seven. I also made a new top and sleeves for Shani.

(The Heart Family MTM hybrid girl, who sneaked into one of the photos, is wearing an outfit I made in 2023/2024, but never got around to photographing much.)

The diorama in the background is made mostly from cardboard and egg cartons.

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Going through pictures of some doll clothing I've been sewing within the past year.