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Hi everyone! Just wanted to share today's outfit creation. It literally took me all day... Hopefully with time I'll get faster though 😜

Details:

-Pattern for super flare pants made by me

-Cotton fabric from hobby lobby for pants

-Top is made from a sock. No pattern used, just freestyled... I tried my hand at a puffy sleeve.. Not sure if that's what it's called though, it's super late and my brain is mush lol. I wanted to keep the sweater kinda fun and went with a cropped style bc what else would a girl who wears a belly chain wear? Plus, i live in Texas and winter is basically a handful of days you MIGHT need a jacket for PART of the day lol.

-Hand sewed everything

-Ignore her messy hair and the hair accessory as i just tied a piece of scrap sock there to jazz it up... Also, i tried to take out her earrings and broke one off 😭

Finally finished my Miss Piggy Doll! I’m most proud if the gloves although in the end they were probably the easiest part.

As a member of r/DollSewing you of course know that dolls are a creative hobby. But do you sometimes feel like in doll spaces the creative aspect is almost drowned out by endless consumerism and hype? I’m guilty of it myself, I know I have to regularly remind myself to not be so focused on just buying, buying, buying new dolls!

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This is why I created r/WeGotDollsAtHome,

a community for doll hobbyists with an anti-consumerist bent!

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In our little corner of the internet we…

- … don’t talk about recent and upcoming doll releases. Let’s disengage from the hype machine!

- … don’t post "Look at what I bought!"-type posts.

- … do talk about dolls we’ve owned and loved for a while!

- … do show off the things we created ourselves: restyles, reroots, and repaints; repairs and restorations; DIY dolls and doll clothes; photo shoots and dioramas… really, all types of doll creativity!

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If you too could use a break from the endless hype cycle… if a slower, more mindful, more creative approach to doll collecting sounds like your cup of tea… or if you simply want another platform to show off your marvellous DIY doll projects… come on over, give us a try!

And thank you so much to the mods of r/DollSewing for allowing us to promote our fledgling sub!