a young friend of mine had her 2nd birthday last week and so i decided to try my hand at making some girl stuff.
i used this skirt tutorial as inspiration, but had to go to this site to get a good idea of what measurements to use for a 2 year old. (fyi, i made it 11″ long –no hem since i used bias tape–and 36″ of fabric length, gathered into an elastic waistband with an 18″ circumference. it fit perfectly. whew!) while i was at that second website, i saw the tutorial for making super easy leggings and had to try it, so those hot pink polka dots were the result of that–so easy, so loved by the recipient!
and then, i’ve been thinking it would be nice to have a special boy doll for the happy baby (who needs a new nickname at this point because he is no longer a baby.) and so i shopped around on etsy to see if there was anything perfect. the ones i liked best cost more than i wanted to pay for a doll that may very well get tossed on the floor and never looked at again, so i gathered together my favorite inspiration photos from different etsy sites and came up with this:
something about the hinged elbows and knees creeps me out, so when i made my second prototype (which i decided could also be a birthday gift for my young friend) i gave her non-hinged limbs. what do you think?
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