Fashioned by Lyndell: Halloween

The Blythe dolls are having a great Halloween with lots of dressing up.

I organised a Halloween / Back-to-School (USA)) swap with fellow Blythe doll people on Ravelry - love doing swaps of clothing for Blythes, it is really inspirational seeing what everyone creates.

Goodness Gwacious!

My swap partner was extremely generous

- sending a box full of spooky lollies and fun stuff.

The Dolls were quite overwhelmed.

Audrey 'claimed' this cute Sheep outfit (love those textured stitches)

Lillian always looks rather elegant in black - a lovely dress and hat and

YEA! bat-wings!

I made my partner only 1 costume and that does make me feel a bit mean but it was elaborate and took quite a bit of making.

This outfit is based on a couple of costumes from the Emerald City scene of the musical Wicked. I missed out on sewing costumes for Wicked and took this swap as an opportunity to make something (in small scale) that otherwise I might never get the to sew.

Bought the glasses and shoes - made the dress, hat, tights & gloves. Lots of ribbons & loads of fun. Audrey is doing the modelling here but the doll who is now wearing the outfit is a CanCan Cat and she has bright blue hair - which looks perfect with this costume.

I did make the doll's person a mini lion ... just because.

From a Mochimochi pattern.

I think I caught some sort of must-make-dolly-costumes virus. The WPWD's people had a photo competition, and the theme was Orange.

So I got busy ...

And made a pumpkin costume - mostly felt fabric with some green ribbon left over from the other costume.

Audrey got a little worried when I asked her to pose in front of the cook-book open at ...

Pumpkin Soup !!!

You can see all the fantastic entries for this competition here.

Meanwhile I'd been busy knitting a Morticia Adams style dress for Lillian. The girdle and under-flounce are actually purple (my camera doesn't like purple) and the dress is adapted from my "recipe" (available for free at the top of the page).

Lillian asked for a nice dramatic cape to go with her dress. Full circle with purple lining and a nice big hood ... so she can be romantic & mysterious.

Little Bird wanted an costume too ... just like Lillian's

Bird likes her long black dress - it makes her feel quite Grown'd Up.

"It has a long bus out the back" {I think she means the train!}

Wait for Us Lillian

Well the dolls got to show off their outfits at the WPWDs Halloween meet. This was just wonderful fun - I got to meet some people who are just as crazy about their dolls as I am! And there were so many gorgeous dolls!!

Some of the wonderfully costumed dollies .... I loved the I Dream of Genie outfit

Isn't she gorgeous!

Audrey met another Simply Chocolate - Evie was wearing a lovely witch costume and she had brought her cat. Audrey and Evie had a lovely time.

The meeting was on the Central Coast, past the Hawkesbury River - I took the train there and took some photos out of the window on the way. The train-line goes really close to the river.