Sasha Doll Style

The models in this group are 3 gorgeous girls. Sasha is my 1968 blonde fringe girl with beautiful grey blue eyes, Katie is a 1969 Kilt girl and loves to wear her hair in plaits. Emilie is a beautiful Kelly Wenarsky repaint who wears a real hair wig in a lovely auburn shade.

The models in this group are Keira (a rerooted brunette from 1969 - beautifully rerooted as a sidepart redhead by Lisa Hartley), an early 70's Sasha waif wearing a light ginger Peggy Sue wig, my beautiful and as yet unnamed puddle eyed brunette reroot (again by Lisa Hartley), and Greg my blonde gregor from 1970.



Keira is wearing a beautiful dark green leaf print cotton dress. The dress is drop waisted with a gathered two tiered skirt. Her contrasting belt is decorated at the front with a lovely white enamelled flat bead. Her pants are made using the same contrasting cotton fabric used in her belt.

Her socks and hair tie are knit using a pale green lace weight shetland wool.

The shoes are dark green leather Mary Jane shoes that I bought on ebay a few years ago but which I thought were perfect with this outfit. I felt she needed dark green shoes.



This sweater was based on a sweater pattern that I saw in a knitting magazine.

I loved the style of the cable detail and the rib detail at the neck that became her collar.


Her dark green leggings are a lovely contrast to the colour of her sweater.



Her sweater is knit using a loving sock yarn in sage, grey and a spring green. The colours drift through each other.



She has chestnut uggs which are perfect with the outfit.


Her earflap hat is knitted in a striped fairisle pattern using the same sock wool as her sweater, a plain dark green wool and an ivory wool. Plaited ties.



A beautiful traditional style dress outfit with peach/pink coloured flowers with darker sage green leafy tendrils set against a pale green background colour.


I chose a lovely contrast cotton fabric for her slip and pantalettes. It is a peachy/pink fabric with ivory polka dots.

White ribbed socks and cream leather laced Boneka boots.

She has a lovely matching fine ribbon tying her hair.




















Greg is wearing a cute hoody, another new sweater pattern. I used a lovely sock wool. There are 3 different shades of green in his sweater.
His trousers are a forest green needlecord. They are a new straight leg style.
His track shoes are black and white.

His mittens and socks are hand knit using pale green shetland lace weight wool.

I came downstairs this morning to find that the Sasha dolls had been busy. They had secretly made me a beautiful Sasha-Mother's Day card.

Very cute and completely unexpected!

Have a Happy Sasha-Mother's Day everyone.

The notice board for a forthcoming collection develops before I start work on the sketchbook and sampling.

For Step into Spring, I have been collecting images of spring narcissus, primroses, tulips, wintersweet, magnolia, cherry blossom. I have been particularly attracted to the sky blues, whites, and shades of yellow with hints of spring green.

While the images on the noticeboard keep the new theme in my mind while I am working, it also helps me with choosing colours and collecting the fabrics and yarns. I collect fabrics and yarns that work with the colours like a magpie until I have a whole box full (see photo 2), then when I am ready to start work on the new theme, I start on my sampling, to see how the materials work together with different textures, patterns and designs.

We stopped for lunch in a carpark beside a pretty wood.

After eating our sandwiches we went for a walk and were amazed to see that the woodland floor was a carpet of pure white wild snowdrops. They were everywhere.

Stunning.

I couldn't resist taking a few photographs of the beautiful rerooted blonde side-part from the late 60's.

I was up late one night in January and thought I would browse Shelly's website before heading off to bed and there was this beautiful doll. I was utterly smitten and had sent off an email to Shelly immediately.

Luckily for me, I was the first person to email her and she was soon making her way to me courtesy of the Royal Mail stork delivery.