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Absolute Sweet Cindy
Soft cloth doll
Free pattern and instructions!
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Optional dress set
Livery for maid

Stepmother would give her daughters beautiful dresses but none to her stepdaughter who had only to wear the castoff clothes of the other two. But stepmother dressed her a cute livery when she have a important visitor. It was a little pleasant moment for stepdaughter.
Introduction

Waiting important visitors with an appointment.

Getting the room ready for guests.

Preparing for tea.

Japanese traditional hina doll set and Cindy.

License
This dress set was designed by Mars (Visitor of this site). Fortunately he released many patterns and instructions fro doll and doll clothes as open resource. The way of sewing of this dress set is based on this pattern and instructions.
License of Mars's open resource pattern and Instructions. (Computer translated English)
License of Mars's open resource pattern and Instructions. (Japanese)

Patterns
Pattern pages are provided by the PDF formated file. An acrobat reader program is needed to install in your P.C. to display and print patterns. In many case, your P.C. have thsi program. If not, you can install this program from below pages without any charge.

Acrobat Reader An acrobat reader program is necessry to browse and print PDF formated file.
If you can't look patterns, download Acrobat reaer from here.

It might take a while to download and show patterns for this dress set. To download the patterns, Click the link below and wait a moment.

Click to display and print all patterns for this dress set (about 300k byte)

There are six pages in the file for this dress set.

Patterns

Since the patterns are reduced, you have to enlarge them by 1.4 times (1.4x = 140percent) to get real scale pattern, using photo copier etc.
Confirm the size of pattern to see the scale at the bottom of pattern pages.

Construction
This dress set is consist of a blouse a jumper and an apron. This set is designed by Mars adding some trappings to his basic pattern and instructions below.

Mars's open resorce data for dolls (Computer translated English)
Mars's open resorce data for dolls (Japanese)

Therfore, additional instructions for trappings are discribed in this page. See Mars's pages for basic instructions clicking above links.
The size of Mars's doll is differ from Sweet Cindy doll, Use patterns in this page instad of patterns in Mars's page.
Blouse

Blouse
The lines at the back of picture is spacing 8"
This blouse is designed to add some lace trappings at the front facings and cuffs to the basic blouse. Basic instructions are below.

Basic instructions for blouse (Computer translated English)
Basic instructions for blouse (Japanese)

You can understand how to make this dress set even from the Japanese pages with the abundant photographs.
In this page, additional instruction to add trappings are discribed.


Layout of pieces for blouse
Basic pieces are alike. Front facings are expanded a little.


Applying a lace to the front facing.
In the basic instruction, front facings are only hemmed. But in this blouse, A lace is sandwiched in between folded front facings.


Sewing the collar
The way of sewing the collar is the same as basic instructions. see pictures above.


Applying lace on cuffs 1
Laces are applyed on the cuffs. At first, sandwich in and sew a lace between the cuff and the sleeve piece.


Applying lace on cuffs 2
Fold the cuff fabric as shown in the picture above. Then press and sew.

Jumper

Jumper (right side)

Jumper (wrong side)
Since the white fabric placed on the wrong side of the skirt is hidden by ordinary. So it is not discribed in this instructions and pattern. The lines at the back of picture is spacing 8"


Layout of pieces for Jumper
The way of sewing this jumper is the same as Mars's basic jumper skirt (3). So, see basic instructions linked below.

Basic instructions for jumper skirt (3) (Computer translated English)

Basic instructions for jumper skirt (3) (Japanese)

You can understand how to make even from the explanation in Japanese with the abundant photographs.

Apron

Apron
The horizontal and vertical lines at the back of picture is spacing 8"


Layout of the pieces of apron.
The way of sewing this apron is the same as Mars's basic apron. So, see basic instructions link below.

Basic instructions for laced apron(Computer translated English)

Basic instructions for laced apron (Japanese)

You can understand how to make even from the explanation in Japanese with the abundant photographs.

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    About DOKU

      e-mail(doku@newon.org)

      "DOKU" doesn't mean the doctor. "DOKU" originates in Japanese word "DOKUTOKU". Moreover, it means unique and the original.