Articulated Stacey gets an Easter dress

The March Pinstrosity Challenge was SPRING! The need for an outfit for my smaller, articulated Stacey from the 1990s -- a Polar Bear Club member that Dad found after Mom and I thought we'd gone through all the baggies at a large thrift store, but his eye can be eagle-like -- combined with my urge to try a doll-sized version of the Starboard skirt. Time for an Easter outfit!

I can't help my Jon-Benet Ramsey vibe. It's a 1990s thing.

This is my third try. It's always my third try. On the first try, the material I'd chosen was too slippery to make the elastic casing in back. On my second try, I hadn't reasoned out modifications to the elastic and waistline properly. On the third try, I ran elastic through the whole thing, so there's only a back seam, and then put in the front pleat.

The top was designed at the point in the weekend when I was stick-pins-through-my-fingers tired. It allows a range of motion and deals with the reality that the designer of this doll body put the girl's chesticular parts above her underarms.

Articulated!Stacey is being named Nastia, for gymnast Nastia Liukin, since they're both blonde, flexible, and presumably named Anastasia.

Look, Stacey! Chickies!

Nastia attempts to discuss Easter chicks with post-millennial Stacey, who is clearly several years older. They are less alone than they believe they are.

And the THING. We don't talk about the THING.

In April, I'm going to sew a doll outfit every night (unless there's something definite on my schedule that gets me home late), on the theory that this should come to at least 20 outfits, which should be a major step toward sewing competence, as well as to clothing the horde.