Sunshine and Daisies Summer Outfits (Links to Free Doll Clothes Patterns)

 One pack of 6 fat quarters, one pack of 20 2.5" x 44" coordinating strips, eight summer outfits.

Outfit 1:  Lee and Pearl Bonjour Dress
Outfit 2:  Lee and Pearl Bonjour Tunic and Shorts
Paris Mini Wardrobe Free Pattern from Lee and Pearl:  These patterns came together really easily.  The dress would have looked better without the ruffles on the sleeves, I think.

Outfit 3:  LJC Bandeau top and mini skirt
Outfit 4:  LJC Peplum top and ruffled capris
Discoveries:  I actually hate the peplum top pattern and will probably put that out of my pattern rotation for the time being.  And the capris...I'm pretty sure that front leg pieces are upside down, but somehow the pattern still worked.  The bandeau top and mini skirt were quick and easy to make.

Outfit 5:  Carpatina sundress with patchwork maxi skirt
Carpatina Sundress Pattern:  This is the third time I've played with this bodice pattern, and as it turns out, I dislike the look of it and won't use it again for sundresses.

Outfit 6:  Peasant blouse and tiered broomstick maxi skirt
Gathers are a pain in the arse.  Enough said.

Outfit 7:  JenWrenne's 1930s embroidered dress
JenWrenne's 1930s Dress Pattern:  I decided to use some daisy applique trim I had on hand instead of embroidery.  The background fabric clashes a bit too much for my liking, but it's still cute overall.

Outfit 8:  JenWrenne's Pointed yoke dress
JenWrenne's Pointed yoke dress:  This came out better than it had any right to given the fabric.  I used contrasting strips to make the pleats.  When using this pattern, extend the bodice by 0.5" to fit AG dolls.  Otherwise it's too short and you can't set in the sleeves.  Sleeves are from the BunnyBear 1940s tiered dress pattern (here).

Kana and Shepard at the Museum of Science

Kana here.  On Saturday, the human, Shepard, and I met up with PhineasFogg (with Emily and Addy) at the Museum of Science in Boston.  (Note:  museums are full of children and families on Memorial Day weekend.  Perhaps we shall try this again when there are less people.)

Here we are playing with the design challenge of making a claw for a claw grabber game.  The small children chased off our humans from the station, so we went to watch the lightning show instead.

The Van de Graff generators here are three stories tall.

 We, alas, did not get to play inside the life-size replica of the Apollo capsule.  See above for 'the museum was full of small children and we were lucky that no small children tried to grab us.'  But Shep got some time pictures playing in the machinery.  It's cool.  She always does this.
 

 Cliff the Triceratops is still adorable.

I think that's a giant chunk of lava that Shep and I are posing next to.  And somehow one of the displays had a tiny beach setup that I had to go play in.

It was, in general, a beautiful late spring day.  We wanted to pose next to the fountain, but the human (and the wind) convinced us otherwise.