October
5, 2004 -- Barbie skirt.My
friend Holly and I went to dim sum this morning for our birthdays. It was delicious
food and a lot of fun to catch up because I hadn't seen her in a bit. Seems like
this weekend was all about catching up with family and friends!
On
Friday I was experimenting with crochet Barbie stuff so I told Holly she was my
Barbie guinea pig when I gave her this little skirt for her collection: 
I
used leftover blue baby sport yarn and based it on the Springtime
Sun Dress patttern. I
didn't have any snaps on hand so I didn't bother with the bodice part.
Instead I got an "ouchless" blue ponytail band to use for waist
elastic. (The ouchless bands do not have that metal claspy
bit. ) Then
I started with row 1 of the pattern only instead of a plain chain I did it as
19 sc's around the ponytail. The stitches cover it up so you cannot see it but
it does help that since I was doing blue yarn it was a blue ponytail band. Then
I jumped down to the skirt part of the directions and follow it from there until
I felt it was long enough. I joined rows 1-5 with slip stitches rather than working
them straight like the directions wanted but once you get down to row 5 the directions
start telling you to join the rounds any way so it's only the first few rows that
needed to be modified slightly. I
think for a first Barbie outfit attempt it came out ok and I really like that
you slip it on with elastic rather than dealing with eeny weeny snaps. Holly agreed
that no snaps would be easier on little girls because she also hated snaps on
the clothes as a child. Velcro is better and slip on clothing is better still. So
now the problem is deciding
which patterns to do next and how to modify them to ponytail elastic rather
than snaps where needed. <<
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