Crissy Doll Christmas Dresses

It's that time of year!

And the girls need 

Christmas Dresses.

Crissy and Shea

Cricket and Mia

Oddly enough, between all four of these

girls I had only one Christmas dress!

I had this single vintage Christmas dress.

I found out the year it was released on

this website...

Crissy and Beth

This blog is a GREAT resource

for Crissy doll collectors.

These two dresses came out on the 

"Look Around" Crissy and Velvet 

dolls in 1972.

I did a search online for "Crissy Christmas Dress"

and this is the kinds of things that came up.

Well there is at least one Christmas dress there

just not the dresses I was looking for.

Finally I found this Crissy 

Christmas dress...

and another, but no panties...

And finally another short dress

for Cricket.

Look at these two dresses side by side.

The fabrics are slightly different.

The one on the left has a deeper green color

and the fabrics are not the same.

Here is an ad I found from 1972

showing these two "Look Around"

Dolls. Can you believe they

sold for less than $8.00!

Here are the Christmas Dresses!

Mia and Shea

Crissy and Cricket.

Uh oh! Cricket's not happy.

She's the only one with no

Christmas Dress!

Finally Cricket's dress arrived!

I think it was stuck in 

a snow storm back East.

I removed these flowers from the

dress waistbands for washing.

One dress doesn't have the flower

so I will decide what to 

do with these later.

I set Cricket's dress to soak.

Ick! Look at that brown water!

This is why I always wash doll clothes.

Washing Vintage Doll Clothes

Laid flat to dry.

The next morning it is ready for ironing.

These smaller ironing boards are so 

helpful when ironing small dresses.

OK!

HERE 

ARE

THE

CHRISTMAS

DRESSES!!

Now She's Happy!

You can see the different green shades

of the Crissy dresses.

Cricket

Shea

Mia

Crissy

Everyone is looking so festive!

Merry Christmas 

from the

Savage Crissy Dolls!

Christmas is Coming Soon!

 I know! I know! Some of us
Don't want to think about it yet!
Sigh....we moms have to think 
about it but not quite yet....
I'm thinking about Christmas dresses!

I was looking for possible Christmas

dresses for Daisy and found this

red gingham dress.

This dress first appeared in an

Easter post in 2020! It is

made for a bit larger doll.

You can see in this photo how much taller 

Joan is than Daisy. 

But Daisy has this cute little pot belly.

Which means...?

She has the same size waist as Joan!

Since Joan and Charlotte have LOTS of dresses

I decided to fit this dress to Daisy. 

I needed to adjust the sleeve and waist.

I put the dress on Daisy, inside out.

Then I pinned it to fit and sewed

along my pins.  The waist fit fine, so

I started at the waist and sewed

out to the sleeve.

The waist line was good, just a little long.

I did a simple fold down, about 1/4 inch.

Then I top-sewed this fold.

I added these cute buttons that remind

me of a gingerbread girl. A red

velvet bow finished it off nicely.

I had another problem.

Daisy has no shoes that fit her!

I decided to try making some 

little felt slippers.

I decided to try this pattern. 

I wanted to credit the poster of this

pattern but the directions and info 

were all in Russian!

I adjusted it to fit a couple doll sizes.

(feel free to use this pattern. Click on it,

then save it to your computer as a

JPEG and print at 8.5 x 11)

I cut out 2 of each pattern piece

using thin wool felt.

I stitched a decorative line all around except

where the sides and soles will meet.

Heel piece stitched with white thread.

I started with the toe piece first.  I just set my speed

to very slow.  Then I adjust as I go around.

Sew the front, then the back making 

sure they overlap. Keep in

mind that felt tends to stretch.

Be sure that your strap is on the opposite side before

 you sew the second shoe.

Turn your shoe right side out and sew

a button on the opposite side to the strap.

Fold the strap over and snip an opening for

the button hole.

Here are the finished shoes.

Not too bad!

Cute, I like it.

I think Daisy has a new

Christmas outfit.

Daisy is very excited for

Christmas!

Hello Kitty Room

My last blog post was a doll room update.

As part of that, I showed the whole dollhouse.

Doll Room Tour 2025

The room on the bottom right is the last to get a makeover.

It is the room shared by Julie and Grace.

They just could not decide what they wanted.

Suddenly it occurred to them, 

they could have a Hello Kitty themed room!

This year marks the 50th anniversary

of Hello Kitty.  Many special

release Hello Kitty's have come 

out this year. My daughter has

 this plushie and...

This Build a Bear plushie and 

several others marking this

50th anniversary.

To create a Hello Kitty room,

I took everything out and painted their 

dresser white.  I added some pink ric-rac.

My DH helped me install a shelf along the back wall.

Hello Kitty enthusiasts love to decorate

with pink lace, so the shelf has a lace front.

Their bed stayed the same.

I added a pink bow to their mirror.

I found this cute My Melody snow-globe.

(My Melody is one of Hello Kitty's many friends)

And added a tiny Hello Kitty to the lamp.

They got a pink fluffy carpet and I found this,

(so cute!) My Melody back Pack.

Inside was a notebook, pen, stickers

and a storage tube thingy.

I added this Hello Kitty chair, BUT...

It used to look like this.  I covered the leopard print

with a pink and purple fabric. It's just tacked on, 

so no permanent damage! And added 

the Hello Kitty pillow.

And VOILA!

The Hello Kitty pillow and slippers came 

with the PJ outfit on the left. 

I found both outfits at Walmart.

I added this OG iPad and another

Hello Kitty notebook. 

Then I gathered all the tiny size Hello Kitty characters

my daughter had stashed in a drawer to fill the shelf. 

I also gathered all these mini posters.

They will go all over the walls.

I added a yellow crochet throw on the bed.

I gathered these three Kitty's to add to the bed.

I wanted to keep their original quilt, so

these Kittys work with the quilt colors.

And some comfy slippers!

SO CUTE!

Here is the whole room!

Grace and Julie love their new Hello Kitty room.

Check out their Hello Kitty outfits!

So cute!

"Hello Kittys!"