But until then I will continue posting on blogger, even if I might not be able to move all the comments.

And today it’s blue shirt day. At least for Eryn, who doesn’t get new stuff very often. She is one of those dolls who have their “one” outfit. Even if I change her clothes to take pictures, somehow she ends up wearing her usual stuff again.

I thought it might just offer some new features and tried it. It’s a complete mess. Apart from the things that don’t work, the design and structure is just terrible. Very unintuitive, very complicated ways to do very essential and simple things.
Who hides the ‘New post’ function somewhere down in a corner? You can only find it if you use your browser in full-screen mode and scroll all the way down your existing post list.
They turned a very clear and functional tool into something you can’t really work with, even if you just want to write very simple blog posts with some text and a picture.

I am not one to dismiss things just because they are new, but this is a completely unnecessary transformation from a tool you could work with into a messy conglomeration of buttons to give the whole thing a smartphone look. I didn’t try everything, but I browsed the support forums. They are full of complaints about technical issues and bugs. I very much hope they keep the old blogger version as an option. I’d rather pay for the old version than being forced to use the new blogger.

But now for a much more pleasant topic… new doll stuff 🙂

Following up on my promise to sew more for the large dolls again I started with some new shirts.

One of the things I like better about the large dolls is their eye size, or rather the variety of colors available. The large-doll shirt dyeing experiments aimed at getting results that matched the eye color of the new owner, and I am quite happy with the combinations.

Queenie got a subtle gradient dye from very light aqua to a darker shade, and the skirt received the same treatment. Since the shirt was white and the skirt unbleached cotton, it’s not exactly the same shade, but close enough to work as an ensemble.

I started with a lighter tone, and the green shirt also received some batik effect circles. After the light green had been fixed I hung the wet shirt on a doll clothes hanger and dipped the hem and sleeves in a darker dye bath.

Finn’s lilac shirt was dyed the other way round, a formerly white shirt received a dark hem dye and I just dipped the whole shirt for a couple of seconds after the hems were already dark violet.

It works with wigs as well, even though the dye I used for the fabric does not work for natural fibers. What I used for the wig is food dye for Easter eggs. Food dye is acid dye and can be used like ‘proper’ acid dye – it has to be fixed with acid, white vinegar in this case. I just wanted to test if it works, the colors are not as vibrant as with acid dye for wool, but I like the effect.