Willie Wardrobe

Last August I started two outfits like the one my Willie wears, with the intention of putting them up for sale, but things got in the way, and I never finished them. So I decided to finish them now. They won't be exactly the same, since Willie's outfit was made out of the last bits of those particular fabrics, and unless you make multiples at the same time, the second set would never be the same anyways. I dyed the fabric to a greenish gold - the camera makes it look very 'yellow'. My Willie's dress has fitted sleeves with snaps at the wrist, but at such a small scale they look huge, so I used a cotton jersey for the sleeves this time, so the sleeves could be close-fitting, but they wouldn't need snaps.

I decided to use white hair for the hats for these outfits. My Willie has blonde, but she has an artist faceup with light brown eyebrows. Almost everyone else who ordered a Willie, got theirs with Donny's faceup, and those came with applied fuzzy white eyebrows. So I figured I'd match that.

The white mohair gets sewn into the hats at the beginning, between the good fabric and the lining, and I thought they looked rather interesting, so had to take a photo....

The beads are made from coconut husk, and it takes quite some time to sew each one on. Once that's done, the back of the hat can be sewed together, and I can finally braid the hair. Then Willie can model one of the new outfits.