Julie

More than a year ago, way before she was interested in dolls, I made four of them for Rosemary.

Now she had learned their names and enjoys them a lot. So last week, after I made her a new dress (pictures later), I used the scraps to make a matching doll. I'm a little embarrassed that she and her doll have matching dresses, actually. How "little house on the prairie" I've become.

Anyway, I made this doll from a new pattern - she's shaped more like one of Rosie's store-bought dolls and less like her homemade dolls. But when I was finished, I hated her hair. The bangs were much shorter than I'd planned. (She is named Julie because when Jack first saw her he said that she looked like Julie Andrews.)

Rosie didn't mind the funny hair.

But I did. So today I made her some pigtails. I think it's an improvement.



Rosie's favorite doll, however, seems to be Holly, the doll I made out of old knit Christmas stockings. She has a head that's too small and kind of creepy embroidered features. There's no accounting for taste.