Ruth

The original request for Ruth, came from a lady at work who had bought a doll off me previously.  As we were talking, I asked her what she wanted and she asked if I could make it bigger.  I dubiously asked "how much bigger?" thinking 'I will have to draft a pattern and I am not sure that I want to.'  She also requested that the new doll be dressed in dark clothes as Caroline had a white dress. 

But once I got into the project, I was quite pleased to be working on something a bit different and it was actually nice to be working with something a bit bigger.I picked out some dark fabric to make the dress out of (although I did pick a light colour for the petticoat) and was really pleased with the result.  The dark fabric was actually the same as the one that I had on my dress when Mum got married so I probably had a bit of emotional attachment.  She is bigger than my usual children's dolls but the child is also a bit older.  In fact, Ruth will actually fit clothes made for infants so any clothes in the future will be easy to source. 

So I was a bit disappointed when the lady looked at the doll and said "oh, you did the dress in purple, I wanted red."  (Red?  Red is a dark colour?)  Of course, now we have a difference of opinion as to what was actually said in the first place but it is possible that I may be making another dress for Ruth.

But regardless, I thought that Ruth, and her original dress are beautiful.