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Welcome to Scrappy Saturday!  Show us what you've recently made!  In my Scrappy Saturday's intro this past week I showed you some simple doll flannel PJ's I made for Snow White, well, my Scrappy Saturday creation for this week is more doll clothes! I told you it was going to get addicting, so fast and easy and makes the little one happy!

If you didn't see my Mermaid Tail post, I made a mermaid tail/skirt for J's dress up collection.  Well, this project was her idea, she saw the scrap fabric left over from the mermaid skirt and wanted me to make mermaid tails for the dolls.  I just traced the doll's lower half, waist to toes, onto paper and then drew a mermaid tail around that adding almost an inch on both sides to the width.  I cut out two identical pieces of fabric using my "pattern", sewed them together, leaving a slit in the back and sewing on a little piece of velcro for taking it on and off.  I am loving these little pieces for using up scraps, making play things and they are fun because I'm not worried if they look perfect or if they turn out at all, so it's fun to just wing it!

Here is the original Mermaid Tail

And Here is the doll mermaid tail from scraps a year later....

 added some sea shells to make her a little more "modest"...

 "Someday I'll be, part of your world...."

 You can see here...super simple design and not symetrical or perfect in anyway...but they work and are still fun! And if they get lost or ruined....who cares!

You can see how I just stitched the raw edge under along the tops and on the slits and then sewed on a small piece of velcro on each side to attach.

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Mermaid Skirt

 

This Sunday I attempted to design and make a child mermaid costume for my 3 year old daughter.  A week ago, I took her to Hobby Lobby and we picked out some fabrics we thought would be good for making a mermaid costume because she loves The Little Mermaid and Loves to play dress-up!  So I used her as my model, and using chip bag clips, draped the fabric around her a few times trying to figure out how I wanted to make it, because I had a few ideas in mind.  Anyways, she loves it and last night told my husband that she is Ariel, he is Prince Eric and Mommy is Flounder...when he asked who her baby brother was and she said "The bad witch!"...hmmm....

Mermaid Tail Costume

I liked this fabric and design because I thought it was perfect  for acheiving the mermaid look!  I also was channeling the dress that Ariel is wearing when her father turns her back into a human and she walks out of the water in that fancy, sparkly blue evening gown.  My daughter caught on too, she was watching the movie in her new mermaid tail costume, enjoying being a mermaid, when it came to that part of the movie and she suddenly jumped up and said "I'm wearing dress like Ariel!"  I was happy she caught onto that and was able to pretend it was both the mermaid tail and Ariel's dress.  

-btw, that iridescent fabric on the fins was a PAIN in the BUTT! NEVER buying it again unless I have a serger or know more about sewing with those types of special occasion fabrics.  Right now, I'm just winging it on my Brother LS2000 I bought for $50 on Black Friday at Walmart.