Sunday morning at Lake Viñuela...

This morning we went for a walk down by Lake Viñuela, the weather was lovely and bright, about 21 degrees centigrade, and I took my Goetz Happy Kid Emily with me because she wanted to show her second new top that I'd embroidered for her.

The top in question is made of black fleece and because I used an American Girl pattern I wasn't happy about the sizing, plus it was a little short in length for her, so I had to add the white fabric as a sort of 'skirt' part......I'm not over keen on the whole thing except for the cats, next time I'd prefer to embroider them onto dark coloured sweatshirt fabric instead, I think they'd look much nicer.  Plus the fleece just attracts every hair, piece of fluff or dust!!!

We took a different route today and I have to say it was SCARY!  The road was very steep and there were no crash barriers, just sheer drops down the side of the road......and a lot of very tight hairpin bends!  Not a route I'd like to drive again in a hurry!

 

The level of the lake is incredibly low at the moment as we've had such a dry year.  I think it's going to take an awful lot of rain to fill it to previous levels......

  

 

Thank you for visiting, I hope you all have a lovely week ahead! 

Playing with the embroidery machine....

I have been absolutely itching to have a go at making something dolly related using my new sewing/embroidery  machine and at the weekend sewed a few designs that I've now made into tee shirts.  The first one is a simple design of a camera using just one colour, I chose black thread and sewed it on to grey marl knit fabric.  Initially I wanted to reduce the size of the design but in the end I did it in it's original size and am actually quite pleased with how it came out.....I was concerned it'd be too big for a doll tee shirt but then again, real kids wear big, medium and small designs on their clothes and so dolls needn't be any different!

Here is Emily, my Goetz Happy Kidz, wearing her new tee shirt.  I used an American Girl pattern for the top and think next time I would prefer it to be less 'fitted' as Emily has a bit of a pot belly which is emphasised by this shape!

I made the rest of the outfit previously but Emily thought they worked well with her new  tee shirt.

Here she is posing by the sea which was quite stormy and choppy today, although the storm never did happen!

 

 

Thanks for visiting, have a lovely week everyone!