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Custom Hoodies

9/15/2015

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I'm continuing to very slowly work on my doll stuff. 

Back in the spring when I ordered Milo, Iplehouse had a lot of their doll clothes on sale for half price - or less - so I bought several KID and BID size hoodies for them to wear on our fall trip. Only thing was, I wasn't thrilled about the patches on the front of the hoodies. One of them said "I Love Iple", which I do, but I don't think a five-year old would care to be a walking advertisement. And I have no idea what the fronts of the other two hoodies meant. The patches were just machine sewn onto the fronts, so i figured I could remove them and replace them with something more age-appropriate, and more unique.

So I picked them off, and bought some cute embroidered animals at the big half-price sale at Fabricland last week. Only problem is, the stitch holes from the patches on the yellow and blue hoodies are rather large and unsightly. The stitch holes in the cream hoodie were fine - it must have been a slightly thicker fleece than the white fleece of the other two. So I've cut a new patch out of  white cotton to sew over the holes. I figured I might as well add some colour to the background patch behind the animals, so I've added some matching coloured paint and now they are drying......
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After the patches get sewn on, the animal embroideries will get ironed on.

I also replaced the cord ties the hoodies came with. They were way too thick a scale, so I pulled them out, and inserted new cords made from twisted embroidery thread, and also added a brass bead to simulate the clasps on the ends of most hoodie cords.
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Jane
9/15/2015 03:07:22 pm

The hoodies are getting a really good make-over!

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Sharon in Spain
10/18/2015 04:52:09 am

What a great idea to change the hoodies to make them your 'own'. I also purchased a couple when I bought my Bordy and one of my Little Fees is wearing the red one at the moment for our trip to the UK on Wednesday, but when we come back, I might do something similar with mine to make them more unique. As you say, who wants their resin 'kids' to be wearing exactly the same as every other resin kid who's mum got them hoodies from Iplehouse!

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