Brenda Starr Steps in for Tyler, who is still in her cryogenic tube.

Here is Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter, waiting patiently while I pile outsized elements on her.

The triangular piece is actually a piece of most intricate embroidery, in the tiniest serpentines made of even tinier buttonhole stitches, that came out of Afghanistan in 1978, before the Russian invasion and the later Taliban takeover. It is a collar/yoke for a child's dress or shirt.

Under it, the white piece, is a child's collar worked in intricate stitches by someone in the family: it is made up of rows of solid popcorn stitches around the outer curved edges of the collar. It was in with the clothes for my big baby doll, which I had from the age of 4 on, perhaps younger, along with a few pieces of my own baby clothes, of which this must be one.

Another piece that came out of the same bunch of clothes is a worn cloth wool cap that my mother must have made. From it, I took a pattern for my Dollfie Dream, Evelyn, after seeing that the worn cap looked adorable on her (linguistic note: the keh-ai [or cuh-ai] in Chinese and the ka-wai in Japanese is often erroneously translated as "cute," a word that makes most of us gag, especially when applied to things like paintings; literally, however, it translates as "can love," better rendered by lovable or adorable).

The pattern I took from that hat I used to make a black hat with white piping, for more practice with piping, and then scaled it down to fit my RanD Angel -- who has gotten a name finally: Evangeline, and I call her Angel or Eva (pronounced Ava) with the last name of Darling, after having seen a wonderful recent British film version of Peter Pan while I was in Hermosa. Eva Darling, Angel Darling.

I built the outfits around the reversible hat I created for Evangeline when I took the Ellowyne Wilde Challenge (Challenge #2). The pictures have disappeared, so there goes more work down the sewer (see Dollway Yahoo chat board for discussion of sewer and the proposed sewwer). I have the pictures on my computer, though they disappeared from display on the blogspot page. I mean, all that needed to be done was to let us know how they wanted pics here and how they wanted them hosted. I could just as easily have linked them from my remote host -- more easily, now that I think of it -- and now I will have to do it all over again, placed in relation to the text they accompany.