More dolls

Kumi has two best friends. She's known them since she was born, and she's played with them almost every week. For most of their first year, Aya, BJ and Kumi ignored each other. There may have been an accidental head loll in the direction of one of the other babies, or sometimes they cried in unison.

But it wasn't until a couple of months ago that they started to really play with each other. It's been a joy to see them develop and interact, to watch them voluntarily hug and kiss and chase after each other with glee. "Kumi come over here!" Aya says. "I want to see BJ," Kumi says. "You're kind of like funny," BJ says to both Kumi and Aya.

So for Kumi's birthday, I made her an Aya and BJ doll. I plan to make more outfits like I did for the Kumi doll but for now they're stuck with this one (the BJ doll ended up with unintentional hunched shoulders, giving him a shoulder-padded look).

It's amazing how two dolls made from the same pattern came out so differently shape-wise...