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American Girl First Communion Outfit-Dress, Veil

Handmade First Communion Dress and Veil for your American Girl doll

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Jess is modeling my handmade First Communion dress and veil set. She feels just like a princess in it and is very happy to show it off to you. The skirt is a full circle so she likes to spin and twirl in it too.

This American Girl First Communion set includes the dress which is made of satin with two layers of tulle for the overskirt. The skirt has a dainty rolled hem that flows very nicely. The dress features small straps on the self-lined bodice and 2 little caps of tulle sewn over the straps. Jess's hair is sort of in the way but the straps are very similar to that of a ballerina's tutu.

I leave a very large opening in the back because the doll needs to be placed into the dress feet first and sometimes little girls are very anxious to put their AG dresses on their dolls and they get in a hurry. This ensures a good fit too as it comes up nicely over the doll's hips and closes smoothly in back with velcro all the way down so that your dolly's behind will not show.

A tip I found out from a doll collecting friend: She buys a roll of hook and loop (velcro) and uses the soft side to cover up the hard side whenever she's changing her doll's clothes. That way, the hair and any other part of the outfit doesn't catch in it. That's just what I do when I work on this dress and sew on the velcro--I cover the hard side with pieces of soft sided velcro so that it doesn't ruin the tulle. I thought this was a cool tip, thanks to my friend Kathy H!

The AG First Communion veil is a wreath of one dozen small silk rosebuds which I weave into a flower crown with the tulle for the veil hand sewn onto the back of it. I am very careful not to let any wire ends stick out and I cover the wire in back that shows with satin ribbon. I then hand sew the veil onto the satin ribbon. The veil pictured is just resting lightly on Jess's head but I have started enclosing 2 doll-sized clips attached either attached to the wreath which you can remove and reposition or I have put them in with your accessories. Clips will vary according to what I can get but my favorite are the tiny claw clips. Colors will vary due to availability. I will try to stick with white, clear or very light but if you have a brunette or darker hair doll, even my black and tortoiseshell colors would work.

If your little girl's favorite color is pink or lavender and you would like the crown made from pink or lavender silk roses, please contact me or note it in your payment. I had a wonderful customer, aunt to twins, who requested this and now I have lots of rosebuds just waiting to be made into special hair wreathes for American Girl dolls.

As with all my American girl doll clothes, my doll is not included. But you do get a pair of shoes, white tights and a small cross necklace in this set.

I was able to get a small supply of mini rosaries and Bibles so until I get a chance to add those to this page, please contact me if you would like this set. It would make your total for the Communion set $40 plus shipping/handling and I would have to send you a PayPal invoice.

Also, I had a customer request gloves so I checked prices on premade ones and didn't think my customers would want to pay that much so I made a pair! For only $2 you can get a pair of lace gloves to go with your set. They do fit very snugly and will need a little easing on and off but lace gives a little so I think they will work out.

If you would like a pair of lace gloves for your American Girl doll, please contact me. I do plan to get all these items integrated on the site so that all you need to do is click a button or check a box but sewing has kept me very busy lately. The gloves of course won't have individual fingers and because American Girl doll hands are a little different, I will always try them on one of my dolls first and leave them on her for awhile before mailing. That way, they will get a little bit broken in and possibly stretched enough so that you won't have any problems. I promise they do fit--if they don't fit my doll, I won't send them, I will just make another pair. Trial and error you know!

Please allow up to 3 weeks from the time of your order until it is delivered. This is especially the case during a peak season for First Communion (usually around late February is when the First Communion orders start coming) so it may not always take this long. But please always order well in advance to avoid any disappointments. Just as with my handmade Barbie doll clothes site, it is pretty much impossible to keep handmade doll clothes in stock due to the volume or orders received.

Your American girl doll dress skirt will have tissue paper placed inside the skirt to keep it nice and enclosed in plastic to protect it from any kind of weather during mailing. I also lightly place tissue paper around the flower wreath so that if it touches the dress, it won't hurt it.

To review, this is what you get for $40:

Dress and veil (with clips to attach veil to doll's hair)
White shoes
White tights
Cross necklace

If you would like the tiny rosary and Bible set, please check the box below and you will be charged accordingly. If the box is not checked, I will just assume you want the dress set only.

If both are ordered, please note my shipping and handling are now set up on a quantity basis so please don't go into sticker shock. I know from the experience of using this type shopping cart on my Barbie clothes site that I can send the whole set for the same as just the dress set, so I will only charge you the amount that would be charged for one item. If you use PayPal, I will send you a refund that way. If you place a credit card order, I charge those manually anyway so either way, the correct amount will be charged. Shipping is via USPS Priority mail.

Please note: If ordering items from both me and Holly, please place two separate orders since your order of Holly's items will come from NY and your order of my items will come from OH. Thanks!

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I am not affiliated with Mattel or the American Girl Company/Pleasant Company in any way. My clothing just happens to fit their dolls.