The finished outfit for Maisie’s Gene doll 🙂 Not bad for no pattern…

This is a little throwback Thursday post- I wrote it on Thursday and forgot to post it til Friday, though!

Last winter I went nuts and bought a ton of those gorgeous Gene fashion dolls for Maisie off eBay. I purchased clothed ones, naked ones, doll trunks, you name it… I guess you could say I did this for me. Having a little girl has been fulfilling all of my childhood doll fantasies in a really big way!

I sew and design clothes in my spare time (I used to design dog furniture in Oslo, Norway about a dozen years ago). I have a bad habit of collecting vintage fabrics and clothing (hello, hoarding). This little outfit prototype was made of an early 1960s silk chiffon nightie and some vintage black jersey fabric.

all hand sewn while Maisie was sleeping. It’s a pain trying to make a sloper pattern for a doll.

teeny stitches

the beginnings

had to sort out the arm holes et al

not the neatest hem I’ve done, but it was ok for the prototype

I really loved the belt and stole

voila! My design!

another view

another outfit I started, with a belt made of vintage scraps

teeny head scarf made from 1930s-40s fabric scraps

head scarf on doll