Jan made me another set of foam-core walls a while back, which I wanted to make into 'interior castle walls', with an irregular stone design. I had painted the background the colour for the 'mortar', and yesterday finally stamped on the stone work. I had cut up a package of sponges from Dollarama to represent the different sizes of stone blocks. When the paint dried, it seemed a touch too 'blue', especially with all the brown furniture, so I brushed over the entire wall with some very diluted brown paint, to kill the blue and warm up the wall a bit. I've done the lower right side...
When the gown was on the doll, I tried on the hanging sleeves to see how they'd look, and I decided I preferred the gown without them. So much for two tries, and three evenings spent beading partway around the edge of the first one! But I like the gown better without them, so maybe they'll work on one of the other two gowns I have planned.
However, without the hanging sleeves, I need to finish the beading at the top of the 'under-sleeves' since I hadn't bothered to complete the beading pattern because that part of the sleeve would have been hidden under the hanging sleeve. I also need to finish the beading around the wrist. I had only done the middle part of the sleeve, after hand-stitching on a very narrow lace ruffle, because my sewing machine doesn't like stitching anywhere near beads....
And here I thought this would be a quick and easy gown....
But on a positive note, while I had Bianca undressed, I tried on the test bodice for the next two gowns. They will be like the ones I made for the bigger Iplehouse ladies, with an underdress that closes in the back, and an overdress that laces up the front. The test bodice fit perfectly....