A New Dress for Avery

Ideas have been tossing about in my head as to what I could do with the 8ply wool that's been sitting in my basket for some time. There was a tiny bit of white, a slightly larger ball of lemon and almost a full ball of grey. So I began working with the white from the bottom up and completed this off the shoulder dress for Avery.

It was fun just knitting and changing things about as I went, though I wish now I had written down what I was doing so I could make another down the track, but it is what it is . . . and I told myself if I could do it once, I should be able to do it again.

I also crochet the little flowers and stuck them to some hair slides with PVA glue and added the little pearl centres. They are not perfect, but they'll do for now.

Hope you all had a productive week and are looking forward to a lovely weekend!
Hugs,
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My First Black Haired Beauty by Götz

Look who's coming home to me . . . her name is Avery and she is an Asian equestrian from the FAO Schwartz Classic Doll line by Götz. She wears her hair in a bob without a fringe, which is one of the things that really appealed to me (all the Hannah's have long hair), and she comes with two rather splendid outfits: the equestrian attire she is wearing and a cowgirl set, comprising jeans, check shirt and cowgirl boots.

Although this doll is an American repeat of Götz's popular Hannah line, the bob makes her quite unique compared to her Götz twin. When you see them side by side, they are not as alike as one might think being produced from the same sculpt. Not only does the Götz Asian Hannah have longer hair, her face looks like it's painted differently.

The photo of Asian Hannah on the right, appears to have slightly darker skin, the lips are lighter and it could just be a trick of the light, but the nose looks narrower than Avery's. I guess I won't really know until I see them together IRL.

There were three other dolls in the Schwartz Classics range: Tess- a new blonde Hannah, Claudia- an Hispanic school girl, and Nina- an African American performer.

The FAO Schwartz Classic line, which sold at Toys R Us, was discontinued in 2013, so I was lucky to find her in NRFB condition, still in her lovely zippered carry case.

History: FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862 under the name "Toy Bazaar" by German immigrant Frederick August Otto Schwarz, in Baltimore and was once the oldest toy store in the United States.