2/26/2012 dress with eyelet trim ...

A delicate little dress ... in progress ...

2/26/2012 primitive dress

Trying to achieve a primitive look with this dress. The white portion is a pattern piece and will not be a part of the completed dress ...

2/26/2012 flower/stripe dress

Rust colored apron. The wide lace panel is, I think, tatting ... dress in the making ...

2/26/2012 A dress ...

The red piece is the apron ... little dress in progress...

Phebe Delight, a prairie girl from the 1800s ....

This is the completed Phebe Delight. Body fabric is heavy osnaburg from Osnaburg Germany. Her head and torso are first padded with cotton quilt batting, then stuffed with wool and a lot of wool roving. Entirely hand-sewn, hand-made. A picture of her bonnet can be seen scrolling further down. She has mitt hands, fingers defined via top-stitching.. little faux leather shoes.. She is from a pattern by Ike's Pip Emma pattern series that I did alter significantly to suit my favorite design ideas. The most significant alteration was to the head/torso. The original pattern was a one-piece head/torso design. I cut the head from the torso, also added neck darts -- making it into 2 separate pattern pieces.

Side View of Phebe Delight's hair

Side view showing Phebe Delight's hair .... a combination of a wig applique on the back of the head and yarn braids on the front.

Back view of Phebe Delight's hair ...

Her back hair is an applique made from a wool labelled "antique red" .. It is a stuffed applique made like a cushion. Wig has a front and back and is stuffed with 2 layers of thin cotton batting then sewed to the head. Barn red yarn hair is applied to the front of the doll's head ...