These creations take hours to design and then make, but being paper and held together with tape are not particularly robust. The first outfit ripped when she tried to dress the toy, so after some thought M's solution is to:
- Make the dress bigger than the toy
- Use a dress form - in this case a few toilet rolls
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| Hop's dress on an improvised dress form. |
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| The dress being modelled by Hop herself. |
It may not look like much, but there is a lot of design and knowledge about clothing wrapped up in this dress. If you look there is a bodice and a full, layered skirt. The bodice itself is decorated with bows and the whole garment is sized to fit (albeit large with extra room so it can be put on and taken off) a specific toy rabbit.
I'm impressed.
M tells me she is making Hop some pyjamas next.
In the meantime, I've started trying to improve M's sewing skills but it is slow going. Sewing without an end product is not terribly exciting and it is not a craft which lends itself well to instant results. The results are faster than something like knitting or crochet, but you still need to have patience.
For this reason over the past couple of weeks we've worked some threading and beading, making some dream catchers, wind chimes and necklaces.
We've also done some actual needlework, with real needles...
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| Making a pompom necklace and working on our French colours. |
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| Patchwork cat wearing her new necklace. |
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| A flower stitched onto card. |
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| A heart stitched onto card. |
In the meantime I've been altering costume for M's upcoming dance show. The costumes may have come from a theatrical supplier but they do not take into account the real shape of small children. Fortunately I've been able to limit the alterations to shortening straps and adding extra velcro.
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