Our First Doll Pattern: April’s Boots

        In our last post, which was almost a month ago at this point, we gave you a first glimpse of our first doll. We had not yet announced her name, so now we are excited to say “April” is the name of our spring doll!! We’ve been working away on her for what seems like forever! Since this is our first doll, there is a lot of trial and error, which is why progress has been so slow. But we feel like we are starting to make some real headway now!! Just today we finally completed what will be the final boots for April! This may not seem like a big deal, but to us it’s a major breakthrough!! So much so that my mom and I had to celebrate with ice cream! It’s always good to find a reason to eat ice cream right?! So without further ado, here is a sneak peek at April’s boots….

We hope that our next update will come much sooner than this one did. Now that we are finally working on the final doll, we are assuming things will fall into place a lot faster. With any luck, we will actually have the “April” doll pattern completed and in our shop by the end of April, haha!!

Hope you like how it’s looking!

Our First Doll Pattern: Spring Doll

        We’ve been hard at work on developing our first ever doll pattern! It’s been a long project so far, but I think we’re finally making some major headway. The first doll we are trying to make is a spring-time doll. I am helping out here and there, but for the most part, this is my mom’s project. And she has been really working hard on perfecting the details. Below you can see the progress we’ve made so far. Keep in mind this is only a practice doll, and our first trial run….

        As you can see, her coat and boots look a little crazy!! This is because we always work with our old scraps of cheaper felt when working on any practice design, so we’ve just been using all the random felt pieces that are laying around. I can’t tell you how many different boots my mom has tried before she finally got the look down!! And the same can be said for the coat. She tried at least three different coats before getting it to this point! And so now she’s working on developing the rain hat. So our doll may not look very polished yet, but she’s already come a long way, haha!!

        This will hopefully be the first of many dolls that we design. This doll, being a spring doll, is going to be the first in a four doll set of “Seasons Dolls”. So next we will be working on a summer doll. And we have many more ideas beyond this first seasons series!! We hope you like how she looks so far.

Thanks for reading!