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I
think
this is a really lovely face, small featured and delicate. There
are many examples in books to view and be charmed by. Seeleys
offer a mould for the XI doll, (as used for my doll), Byron
have one for the X and XI, and Bells
have the XII; they are all similar sized I believe, making a 13
to 14 inch doll. I have put my doll on a French body as it fitted
the size quite well - I have no other excuse.
I
used the same Joan Nerini pattern used for the PD as a basis for
the dress, but made it up differently, cutting the sleeves using
the "sleeve lining" pieces of the pattern as I did not
want such a puffed effect. I copied the style of the dress from
a photograph of an SFBJ doll. I had some vintage lace pieces that
I wanted to use (and I did use every scrap of them). Because I had
two uneven sections of the lace, I had to piece in an extra motif
at the back of the dress to achieve sufficient fullness. The body
of the dress and the underskirt is made of white muslin, (looseweave
thin cotton), which I have pin-tucked using my sewing machine (pin-tuck
foot - another gadget of the moment for me I'm afraid). I finished
the dress with a vintage stiff satin ribbon, rosettes, and beads
in cream. I made the underskirt fully gathered but did not have
enough lace to do the same for the overskirt; I did this intentionally
but it was a mistake and if I did it again would gather under and
overskirts together as normal, (less full).
Socks
are hand-knitted in Coats Crochet cotton No. 40 from a pattern leaflet
Yesterdays Knitting Patterns for Antique and Reproduction Dolls
[Doll Designs by Patricia Evans and Jane Woodbridge]. The
shoes are in black gloving leather with a picot edged trim; I used
a pattern from the workbook supplied by Goodie
Twoshoes and their mini-eyelet setter. The
underwear is made of white muslin, with petticoat and knickers decoratively
pin-tucked and edged with lace. The doll's wig is made from permed
processed rope mohair in dark brown, applied on a shaped milliner's
buckram base.
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