After my first unsuccessful attempt on the dress that I did, I decided to redo it again.  I decided to take step to step pics on this.   If you decide to purchase the Doll Coordinate Recipe Vol. 11: Good Girl Style it has the patterns but the tutorial is in Japanese, however the tutorial is pretty easy to follow through since it doesn't have many patterns to cut out.  I cut out only 4 patterns and attached together with my sewing machine.

After cutting out the 4 patterns: 

1. I proceeded to iron the seam allowance on for the top and for the dress.  
2. I realized the side are a bit tricky and suggest that you should hand sow the sides.  I had a hard time sewing the sides using my sewing machine. 
3. After sewing the top I sew the top and the bottom of the skirt dress together by pinning sides together 
4. Then I flip the dress and align the edge of the dress and sew it together for the final result. 

I decided to sew on something new and wanna try out other patterns.  I've been looking at some of the patterns from this book:

I tend to find something that is simple and easy to work with and here is one of my final sample result.  Not a perfect dress but I think I got the general idea and I will certainly redo another one but in a perfect form.

Well, I have decided to open a shop to sell some of my dress creations that I created.  I'm a bit excited because I feel accomplished that I made some of these adorable dresses on my own.  I was very afraid of using my sewing machine, but after while using my sewing machine is pretty fun and easy.  The fun part is that you learn new things on the sewing machine each day.  I'm glad that this hobby is a long term goal of mine and hope as the time progress I get better at it in the long run.  Please do check out my shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/sewshopblythe?ref=si_shop and Happy Blythe Shopping!

Here are some of the dresses that I created on my own: 

Here's a picture of Melanie meeting another Blythe doll with their mini mustache that was provided in the goodie bag.




I got the opportunity to attend my first BlytheCon 2013 in New York City.   I always wanted to attend a doll convention and to see what BlytheCon was all about.  I was pretty overwhelmed by the crowd and I was a bit shy.  Also it's my first time owning my first Blythe doll, so I didn't know what to expect.  What really fascinated me was the vendors; each booths has amazing ranges of doll clothes and accessories.  I'm so intrigue of how each vendors put so much times in crafting and sewing their doll outfits with such amazing details.  I got two outfits from pomme-pomme, her dresses are so beautiful and I couldn't resist not getting it for Melanie.

I recently purchased my very first Blythe Doll recently, she's a Takara 12" Blythe Petit de'jeuner Champs Elysee. My daughter named her Melanie and I think her name suits her very well. I wanted to learn sewing and make more pretty dresses for my blythe doll.  I hope this will be my long term hobby since I recently started to use my sewing machine again. After many failed attempts I finally made my very first party dress successfully using this adorable kitty fabric pattern.  The party dress pattern can be found here:

• Party Dress Part 1

• Party Dress Part 2 

I had to tweak this pattern a bit, the bodice of the pattern that I first used in is small so I had to draw my own bodice.  I will try to give you a full tutorial of my version and clearly explanation in the future.