I have recently seen a Crissy Doll on another doll blog. I had a Crissy when I was a girl. I loved her long hair and very grownup face. I thought she was SO beautiful.
WELL, you will never guess what I found at my local thrift store?
YES, you guessed TWO Crissy Dolls! They are both from 1972.
As you can see they are looking a bit rough, but that
is an original Crissy dress on the left!!
My doll had this curled under hair.
This doll has very straight hair around her face.
One of the dolls had these spots where the green dress
got glued somehow to her skin. I got most of it off, but not all.
They have just had their baking soda bath.
Green dress and panties soaking in mild soap and cold water.
Double hair wash using the wig shampoo and conditioner.
After carefully brushing out their hair I left them to dry
and ran up to my sewing room!
I looked through my existing patterns and found this one.
It is too slim for AG dolls and I thought it looked right.
I remember wearing these A-line dresses with peter pan collars when I was a little girl.
I was right it fits my new Crissy's perfectly!
TA DA!
A summer sun dress.
I had these little shoes from another doll, so they have to share for now.
I plan on using the strange pink vinyl
dress to make some go-go boots.
I added a little length onto this dress.
in future I will cut the pattern out longer.
Such a pretty smile.
Sophie wandered into my sewing room while I was
working on these two and said they should be called
"Lisa" and "Sarah".
Say hello Lisa and Sarah.
BEFORE and AFTER
PS -I will update when I have finished restoring
the green dress and make the go-go boots.
UPDATE!
I made that pink dress into go-go boots!
Not too bad!
