Ponies in dresses

I finally got around to taking a couple photos.

First up - Coco Pommel in the vintage-hankie dress. This is literally just wrapped around her body with the ends tucked in. I thought it turned out so successfully (the colors look really good with her coloring) that I'm going to see if I can find a couple little pieces of white ribbon in my stash to attach to the two corners that are "tucked in" so I can tie them and have them stay a little better:



To me, she looks more like "herself" with a dress on - she's a fashion pony, so she should have a dress.

Also, Maud's dress. I never got around to rehemming it though I will eventually - it's too long in front and the sleeves are also a little long.



It's dark blue jersey knit (single knit, so it DOES need hemming). It's hard to design a "dress" with a 360 degree skirt that fits on an animal that has the standard quadruped way of standing. (I think the "cape that covers the back flanks," like Coco's dress and also like a lot of the "formal" dresses you see in-show, works better). But I think it turned out okay.

And of course, I have to have a photo of her with her sister:



One thing I like about the show is that it often seems to show family dynamics pretty well, and there are tiny simple throw-away lines that speak volumes. (Maud's "I don't really like candy. But I do love Pinkie Pie" when asked about why she just stored away the candy necklaces Pinkie insisted on making for her.)

Actually, the Pie family dynamics (as well as the Apple family's, and they may actually be related) are kind of interesting - the very old-worldy type parents, the oldest sister with her flat affect and extreme focus on rocks, the anger-prone middle sister who seems to think she's keeping the whole enterprise afloat*, the excitable Pinkie (I once described her as the "pink sheep" of the family - all the rest of them are grey) and then her twin (!) Marble, who barely speaks a word.

*Now wondering if any fan fiction writer has recast a version of the Prodigal Son story featuring Limestone as the older "son," and either Pinkie or Maud as the one who went off to spend their inheritance in the world. I suppose Pinkie, with her love of parties, would be the logical younger "son," but given how some people talk about people spending to get an education these days, I could see Maud - with her going to school for a degree in "Rocktology" - being seen by the more practical-minded Limestone as a bit of a prodigal. Of course there would be no fatted calf killed - but maybe Igneous would make up a special batch of rock soup.

I also had sort of hoped that the Hearthwarming episode with them and the Apples would have a Stone Soup bit of a play to it, where the Apples turn out to have delicious vegetables with them that could be added in with the stone.....kind of like in the old story.

And another  question: Do kids still learn the Stone Soup story? I find a lot of the younger generation are not familiar with The Little Red Hen or The Boy Who Cried Wolf or other stories that were just given when I was growing up.