The further I get on my Santa costume, the more I'm bothered by the doll's short arms. Specifically his short upper arms. His outside of his upper arms are the same length as his lower arms, and then there's still his hands. It already bothered me when he was wearing his Wizard costume.
So I undressed him to take a closer look.......LOL...he looks so skinny without his fat suit.....
So I undressed him to take a closer look.......LOL...he looks so skinny without his fat suit.....
His elbows bend way too high compared to his body.
On a human, the upper arm is the length of the lower arm plus about half the hand length. So I've been thinking of a way to lengthen his upper arms. But I was already quite far on his coat sleeves and did't really want to start over. This morning I sewed the sleeves into the coat....
After sewing the underarm and side seams and turning the coat right side out, I tried it on my guy
I had been afraid that if I lengthened his arms then the sleeves would be too short. But I saw that was not the case, so that gives me the green light to go ahead and modify his upper arms.
In the meantime, I'm continuing with the embellishments on his coat. It's weird that even though both front pieces were exactly the same when i cut them, one is now shorter than the other. And even though I added lots of extra length to the trim that had to go up the front edges, one end still ended up too short. But I expect to eventually hide all that under a fur collar....
In the meantime, I'm continuing with the embellishments on his coat. It's weird that even though both front pieces were exactly the same when i cut them, one is now shorter than the other. And even though I added lots of extra length to the trim that had to go up the front edges, one end still ended up too short. But I expect to eventually hide all that under a fur collar....
The next step is to add the fur edging and do all the beading.
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