Friday, May 11, 2012

Dominique's New Skirt and My Favorite Tool

Dominique's wardrobe is coming along.  I made her a little leopard skirt .  

I need to iron it.  Right now it has that look a skirt gets after wearing it all day.  

Here she paired it with a brown top and the Stardoll jacket that came with the red headed Stardoll.  This jacket came with the orange dress Kara is now wearing at the wedding.

I'm not happy with the brown top, so I will look for something a little lighter to wear with this jacket. 

This is my favorite "tool"  at the moment.  It is a two-sided quilter's press.  Someone was throwing it away and I grabbed it, not knowing how much use I would eventually get out of it.  It went unused for a couple of years.  I now use it for everything.  Sewing clothes, making the furniture, making the food, as a laptop desk, as an ironing board, etc.  This surface is hard, so I can do rotary cutting on this side. The multiple rulers and the 1 in blocks, allow for quick measuring.  I will use this to design new wood patterns for upcoming wood furniture.

Flip it over and you have a soft surface, where I do my ironing (in my lap).  This tool allows me to be more efficient.  The less I have to get up and move to something like an ironing board, the quicker I can get my projects finished.

Do you have a favorite tool or doll item?

14 comments:

  1. Nice skirt.

    Favorite tool? Nope... I don't have one. For ironing, I use my tabletop ironing board or if I am ironing something small, such as doll clothes or ribbons, I use a towel and sometimes place a paper towel on top (depending on what I am ironing).

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    1. DBG - Thanks. I'm surprised she is actually getting new clothes. Next she will be asking for a new man to show off her new clothes.

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  2. My favorite sewing tool is the seam ripper. It has saved me from a multitude of "sins" (sewing seams in backwards etc.)!

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  3. Love that skirt, it's so chic and fits Dominique perfectly. Your board looks very useful, I don't have a favourite one but I wouldn't mind to have one like yours!

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  4. Beautiful! I'm glad that you are able to use your fav tool so much!

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  5. Hello from Spain: Dominique wears a very nice skirt. I love the leopard fabric. I have no specific tool for the hobby of dolls. I see your board. Keep in touch.

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  6. jessikaj - Thanks.

    limbe dolls - I feel you on that seam ripper.

    Rossetti - Thanks. Dominique is loving her new skirt. She is trying to see what's next on her list.

    Verona - I didn't realize how much I was using the quilter's press. It's nice and small and can to neatly put away.

    Marta - Thanks. Dominique will be ready for the town soon.

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  7. The leopard skirt looks great.
    I have two favourite sewing tools - my huge Kai scissors - I always feel silly cutting out tiny Barbie clothing pieces with scissors that are as tall as Barbie but they are beautifully sharp right to the very tip. My other favourite tool is a good pair of tweezers - they can pull out all those teeny thread ends and push out corners really well.

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    1. Carrickters - Thanks. I've never paid attention to Kai scissors before. I will have to check those out. I've also never thought of using tweezers the way you do. Thanks for the wonderful tips!

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  8. That skirt is very sexy, but because it's not short it's also fine for business! My favorite tool is the Easy Cutter! I've been using it a lot lately. I lurve it!

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    1. Muff - You know that is a good 'day to night' skirt. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. The Easy Cutter is a nice tool. Mine is in the basement.....somewhere. I'm sure I will run across it when I finish organizing down there. At the moment I use my big mitre saw for cutting all my wood.

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  9. Cute skirt Vanessa and in my favorite print....animal print. I love it!

    My favorite tool....would have to be my pinking shears and my hot pot to do boil perms. I only use the pot for my dolls.

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    1. Georgia Girl - You and Dominique are cut from the same cloth. She loves her animal print, too. Hot pot! I haven't heard that term since my college days.

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