Rain, Rain, Rain


Yet another wet Northern Irish summer.
I keep hoping for a dry bright morning so that I can start photographing the new outfits to put onto Sasha Doll Style.
If the rain does not stop soon, I think I shall have to use my white box to photograph the outfits but I do so much prefer to have the garden in the background for my photographs.
In the past couple of weeks we have had drizzle, driving rain, thunder and lightning down pours... If poor little incey wincey spider lived here he would have drowned by now!
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The Lilac Collection














For a while now, I have been thinking about a new way of working on my designs. I love to use an inspirational images to base my designs upon. Usually, I took one idea from the designs and created one outfit at the end. Sometimes I would come back to the theme at a later date.

I decided that I would like to work on small "collections" using my themes.















The Lilac Collection

The Lilac Collection is the first of these to be completed.

The colours are shown in my photo at the top of this blog. The photograph is of lilac blossom. I adore lilac blossom, the colours, the scente and the beauty of the blossom and the trees. I have 3 lilac trees in my garden. It was great fun finding the fabrics, wools and accessories for this range. I chose to create 6 outfits for this collection.

This dress is a beautiful floral cotton fabric. I used a lovely mauve plain cotton for the belt and the fine piping accentuating the cuff. Her tights are made from a new pair of mauve toddler's cotton tights.

I love this outfit. Ffyon my Limited Edition Pintucks is modelling it. The larger photo above shows the duffle coat with this outfit.

The sweater is hand knit using lace weight shetland wool in 4 colours. I love knitting fairisle it is wonderful seeing the pattern developing. I softened the look of this sweater with a pretty collar using the pale pink edged with blue.

Her trousers are a sea blue colour with a lovely sheen to the surface of the needlecord.

I used the pale sea blue colour of lace weight wool to knit her ankle socks. The outfit is completed with a beautiful pair of Boneka leather laced shoes.

Beautiful lilac smocked dress. The smocking is worked using a pretty hand dyed cotton embroidery thread. It is in shades from lilac through purple to turquoise. The dress is made from a beautiful plain lilac cotton fabric. Her pants match her dress fabric.

I used a pretty soft sock yarn made from 75% bamboo for her lovely short sleeved bolero jacket. This yarn has a wonderful sheen that looks like silk.

Her ankle socks are hand knit using lilac lace weight shetland wool. I used this wool to knit her hair tie. To complete this outfit I bought a pair of t-strap sandals that remind me of the Clarks sandals I used to wear every summer when I was young.
















I think this is one of my favourite of the outfits. I love the contrast in the colours.

The smocked dress is made from a beautiful floral cotton fabric. The background is a pretty lilac colour. The flowers are shades of pink outlined in maroon. The smocking picks out the leaf green and these shades. Her pants match her dress.

Her bolero is hand knit using lace weight maroon shetland wool.

I chose a pretty pale lilac lace weight shetland wool for her ankle socks. It matches the background colour of her dress. I also used this wool to knit her hair tie. Her Boneka t-strap shoes are a good match to the colour used for her bolero jacket.


Maya is wearing this lovely outfit. Her hair is held back with a pretty little purple butterfly clip.

Her cardigan is hand knit using a pale lilac lace weight shetland wool. The buttons were hard to find. I kept looking for the right size and colour everywhere I went. I wanted the buttons to match the lavender colour of her trousers.

Her blouse is a pretty dainty floral cotton fabric which buttons at the back.

Her socks are hand knit using the same wool as her cardigan. The outfit is completed with a pretty pair of lavender shoes with little bows.


The final outfit in this collection is a gorgeous traditional style yoke dress. I used the contrast fabric for the yoke, cuffs, pantalettes and her waist slip.

The dress fabric is a beautiful floral fabric with a darker shade of mauve for the background and lilac, pink and ivory flowers. The leaves match the same shade of aqua that I have used for the contrast fabric.

Her ankle socks are hand knit using a lovely pale aqua colour of lace weight shetland wool. Her beautiful cream coloured leather Boneka ballet style shoes set the outfit off perfectly.
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Baby bedroom













I spent the weekend having fun with some of my props.

I have been collecting pieces of furniture for a baby bedroom for about 4 years. I was really pleased when I finally found a cot.

These are the first sample shots to see what else the setting needs and I have not yet decided upon the pictures for the wall. I favour pictures from my favourite early childhood book "I am a bunny" by Richard Scarry. I am thinking of a seasons theme for the pictures.

I haven't decided if these will be the actual babies, toddler and Sasha in the picture story when it is finished. I definitely know I want to use a different Sasha but I really like my little brunette toddler. She was an Esther that I bought on ebay. She had already had her hair coloured a ginger colour but the problem was that in night light her hair looked salmon pink. After a couple of weeks I decided to colour her hair and made her a brunette. She is really cute.

My brunette baby is an early sexed baby girl. Her eyes have a hint of green and I keep intending to repaint her eyebrows which are olive coloured. She is playing with a cream cat family who live in my old Lundby dolls house. She is using the Lundby nursery furniture for them.

I love looking for appropriately sized props for the settings. I invariably find the furniture on ebay. Everywhere I go, I am looking out for toys in the right scale. I am not a perfectionist about scale. It is hard to find the right size so I tend to think if it looks okay it will do. I suppose I should carry a tape measure with me but I never have one when I see something so it has to be a judgement call.

I love the American girl items.
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Aran Sweater in Natural Colours

My Gotz Maria is wearing an aran sweater.

Maria is really cute. I love her ponytail hair style with her long fringe. She does have some neck caving which seems to be very common in these particular Gotz dolls. Her's is relatively mild.

The sweater has been knit using a 4 ply sock wool in a pretty mottled fleck in natural and oatmeal colours with a little spots of taupe and grey. It really suits her colouring.



At the moment I am searching for a wool that matches the colour of her taupe trousers. The corduroy enhances the colour of the sweater.

Haven't decided what style to knit her hat yet.
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I love Magenta, Mauve and Blue

Sarah who was the first Sasha I ever bought is lovely girl from 1975. She originally wore the red dress with white stitching on it. She is a little different than my other Sasha dolls as one of her legs is quite a bit shorter than the other. It can give her a very natural stance but makes her a bit harder to pose than other dolls in my collection.






I adore the colours in this sock wool. very rich tones of magenta, purple, mauve and pale blue. Beautiful combination.

I had a lovely needlecord in a dull mauve tone which looked beautiful with the sock wool.






The magenta needlecord I made the duffle coat from picks up the magenta in the sweater perfectly. I chose a mauve coloured lining for the coat which matches the corduroy trousers. I was lucky to find a mauve suede for the loops.

I haven't decided about socks yet.
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