Provincetown Vacation: Playing on the beach

We headed to the beach after getting back from the Pilgrim's Monument.  

Enjoy the pretty ocean scenery as the summer ends.

Provincetown Vacation: The Provincetown Museum and Pilgrims Monument

With a cannon from the HMS Somerset

Saturday afternoon saw us headed to the Pilgrims' Monument and the Provincetown museum.  Despite the human coming to PTown every year since 2012, she'd yet to go to the museum, and we provid the perfect excuse.

The first fire engine in PTown

The museum had a wonderful antique doll collection

It's rather unfair that the antique dolls have books and we don't.

At the base of the monument, looking out over the ocean.

At the top of the monument

No, we didn't drop anything off the edge.

We actually did make our way up the monument, and the human was playing games with holding her phone through the rails to get better shots.  We somehow managed to make the trip without dropping the human's phone or Celestine's glasses off the top of the monument.  Go us!

Provincetown Vacation: Saturday Morning

Statues, statues, everywhere.  I guess it's art?

Saturday morning in PTown saw the human going around town to all the garage sales, and us tagging along and getting photos everywhere that looked interesting.  It was absolutely gorgeous out.

The Provincetown Library

One of the many pretty gardens in town

First (and definitely not last) photo of the
Pilgrims' Monument

Lilacs and the church

The old stone theatre sign, now on the beach

Hiding in the tiny little Asian garden

You can hardly tell we're in PTown...

Provincetown Vacation: Friday afternoon

At the Somerset House Inn

It's Kana.  Long time no see, because we and the human have been busy with life.  And sewing.  And other shenanigans.  But way back in May, the human took me and Celestine on a weekend vacation to Provincetown.

Really, do we have to go out?

Despite our desire to just sit on our laptops all afternoon, the human dragged us out to sightsee.

At Somerset House Inn

It's a delightful shade of purple.

So we headed out to MacMillan Wharf to be all touristy.

Getting ice cream at the Purple Feather

It's not Cape Cod without lobsters.

Those are all old lobstering floats.

Riding the PTown whale on Macmillan Wharf

Flying Fish!

Summer Sewing 5/5 (Nautical Dresses)

More from the 'fabric scraps from garage sales' collection:  it started with me finding that scrap of light blue fabric with little navy blue polka dots and tiny white anchors and going 'that's perfect for a doll dress'.  Never mind that there was maybe a little over a fat quarter of fabric in about 4 different pieces, some of which were 2" wide at best.  I can work with it.

A search through the pattern collection and the rest of my fabric stash, and I've found the coordinating fabric of navy with white dots, and two patterns, the Heritage sundress, and MatildaJo's 'Inspired by Zooey' dress.  Now, I definitely did not have enough fabric for the sundress as the pattern was written, so I used the skirt from the LJC Aspen dress with the bodice from the sundress, and cut those from the light blue fabric.  There was just enough of the light blue left after that to make the contrast underskirt and pockets for the other pattern.

All in all, a win.

Summer Sewing 4/5

This collection happened because a friend of mine had some leftover scraps of a snakeskin patterned knit, and wondered if I could do anything with it.  The answer was 'yes, of course I can turn it into doll clothes'.  From the handful of scraps, I managed to cut out a miniskirt, a pair of leggings, and one side of a reversible corset.

The rest of the fabric came from my stash.  I was looking for fabrics that would look good with the black, and decided the color theme was going to be turquoise, white, and black.  I had some floral embroidered fabric that I used for the blouse, and some lace for the sleeves.  The A-line sheath dress and the other side of the corset were made out of a turquoise linen with sequins.

A new Gothic Lolita/Steampunk pattern collection

One of my current projects is to make up a set of gothic lolita inspired patterns for AG dolls.  I've recently finished with the first finished mockups for a versatile blouse pattern and four different skirts.
Samantha's been kind enough to be the model for this collection.

Outfit 1:  peplum blouse with a standing collar and flared sleeves, and a gored skirt with two tiers of ruffles.  The outfit is trimmed with 4 different sorts of lace and trim.

Outfit 2:  same blouse as outfit 1, but with a princess-line jumper trimmed with rosebuds, tiny soutache braid, tiny ruffled lace on the seams, and a deep eyelet ruffle at the hem.  The jumper closes in the back, and has additional lacing for better fit.

Outfit 3:  bibbed blouse with rosebud trim and lace, and a 7 gore gathered skirt trimmed with lace ruffles.

Outfit 4:  same skirt as outfit 3, with a peplum blouse with a pointed collar and elbow sleeves, with rosebud trim on the collar and cuffs.

Outfit 5:  blouse with Peter Pan collar and puffed sleeves, button band, and lace trim, high waisted skirt with tiny rosebud applique.  The skirt closes in the back, and laces up for a better fit.

For the seamstresses out there, is this pattern set something you'd be interested in?