Last night, just sitting down  to do my blog was enough rest to allow me to go back to the studio. I took the body off the last doll to begin to rip out all the hand-stitching in corrections. When I was done I could easily see where the pattern was wrong and needed to be changed. This morning I made three new patterns and sewed three almost bodies. The bobbin ran out when I was on my last bit of sewing patience so I just walked away figuring when I really needed a body I would come back to finish the job in perfect peace.
In the studio Holly was so happy to be in the body Blaze had given her. I put her in a nightie thinking I would photograph her later in the day when the sea fog burned off.

Then I moved on to looking at the two Punkins and their awful bodies. I decided to stop all this reinventing the wheel,to give up that part of the dream and to just give in to order bodies from Bountiful Baby in Salt Lake City. I made a list of the varieties of bodies I needed to have for the kits I have on hand. I found other bodies stashed in among the kits and there was a BB body for Blaze.
I gathered her up eager to get her in a body, get her birthed and another baby done. I had forgotten the BB body did not fit her full length arms. There was too little fabric so the ties never reached her biceps. I thought I could easily fix that if I sewed strips of fabric around the circle. That idea meant that I had to refill the bobbin (a small job that went more quickly than I had thought it would.) At the same time I put the gathers in the front, took in the belly seam and reformed the butt area. Here I was back to making corrections to BB's bodies.

Here is Blaze with her new body. Those full arms do not sit exactly right, but frankly I have lost my lust to correct BB's bodies. Otherwise the body fits her well and I think under pajamas those puffs will just look like shoulders. At least the chest sits right and does not throw her head back too much. Her chin is a little high, but as I said, I was tired of fixing other people's work and I was eager to see how the new bodies I had made today worked.

Punkin still had some boobs but I was happier having his legs in the swivel caps so he could sit down. As of yesterday all he could do was try to stand up and then fall over or do a serious job of leaning.

Here both Punkins are enjoying their new bodies. The light beige one has swivel caps for the arms and the legs which gets rid of the boobs but puts a lot of swing in his arms. When you cuddle with him he doesn't seem as eager to give back a squeeze. I had to redo the legs as I had made the caps too small. Back to the machine, but it worked well making the bigger caps.

Speaking of caps. Last night I was looking at caps for newborns but was shocked the best price I could get was $3.32 each - for just a jersey cap. Only later as I was going to bed I realized that in the first harvest of  fabric from Harmony was some pink and white in a knit which I thought I would never use as stuffing a baby would be hard with a knitted fabric. Lightbulbs! I have yards material for newborn's caps. Maybe when I get these five babies birthed.

Before I finished today I tried one of my new body patterns on Nolan.

Can you read his lips? "Please just go order me a body like Holly's from BB. I am too old for your inventions." When Harmony met Nolan her first comment was, "He's an old soul." and the more I learn to know him, I am convinced that she is right. The sculptor used an old soul baby as model and he was so good that his soul age came through. He is a very sweet laid-back baby. Even an ugly body does not really upset him. He just let me know what to do to fix the problem. Will do tonight. For that I have energy.