December 25th, Laurel will find her new American Girls Molly doll under the tree, wearing a dress nearly identical to Laurel’s Christmas dress. As I sewed, I kept imagining the delight in my granddaughter’s big, hazel, doe eyes.
Much as I hoped to embroider the bib with miniature Sugar Plum Fairy, just like Laurel’s, it was apparent that it was too risky to reduce the design to doll size. So I hunted and hunted through my designs, searching for a fairy in a scene that could be extracted.
Finally, I came upon Martha Pullen’s Mother and Child Embroideryscapes from Amazing Designs. This fairy isn’t exactly like the graceful ballerina on the child’s bib, but she is tiny and fit nicely. With BuzzToolsV2 I added little ballet slippers, but the design is so small that it was wasted effort.
Tiny as the design was, I did reduce it by 10%. In order to compensate for reduction, I used 50, 60 and 80 wt. threads. Continue reading