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When I was a little girl my friends and I used to get together to sew clothes for our dolls. Considering they were all different sizes, we didn't use patterns, either. I progressed on to making toys and dolls and still dress them:

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although sometimes I make and use patterns now.

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Cute outfit,Tami! You have a great talent,like my mother. She could look at a dress on a mannequin at Sears,go home,go through her fabric stash,and the next day she would be wearing a beautiful copy to church. I never inherited her talent-in fact it is a family joke/half reality that sewing machines break any time I go near them! So, I don't! lol But I admire talent like yours tremendously!

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Cute! I too, sew, knit, crochet & more for AG. I love that you make ooak outfits. Kinda funny, but I hadn't crafted for a few years. Then, I got into making AG othes and oopsy! It was a slippery slope straight back to my passion for miniatures.

If you haven't already, check out the website for 'Antina's'. They're just down the road from us. Great AG shoes & accessories dirt cheap. The things you can't make and at wholesale.

Would love to see more photo's :)

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Thanks, ladies! I just think it's fun to see what I can do with 99-cent fat quarters. I'll have to check out th at store; I absolutely refuse to pay the $35-$40 an outfit that AG charges.

@ holly: Nice! Also, I'm loving your book collection on the bottom shelf.

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I love that normal is in quotation marks. My dh frequently reminds me that nothing about a grown woman dressing up dolls and playing with dollhouses is "normal." I tell him that there is a long-standing tradition of people all over the world doing this very thing. His response: yes, but they're seven. I tell him to respect my culture and to quit stereotyping my people.

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Oh, yeah, I slid down that same slippery slope from sewing/knitting/crocheting for Barbie to crocheting anything I could think of for 1:12 scale dollhouses, and contemplating crocheting/knitting for 1:24 scale....and have never been happier! LOVE that "respect my culture and quit stereotyping my people" - I DO feel like I've found my lost folk after all these years! :)

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My maternal greatgrandmother was a sempstress in Scotland and my grandma did needlework of almost every kind. My mother thought handicrafts was something people "did" and didn't use any of her genetic gifts to express herself; but she's the one who started me with a tiny steel crochet hook. Somewhere along the line I started using the hook "wrong"; and later, when I taught myself to kknit, I was told I did that "wrong", too' came to find out I use what's called "Continental" style for both! IMO if it looks like the pictures and gets the job done, "wrong" is right enough. Grandma taught me embroidery and needlepoint, and handsewing. I taught myself the rest.

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My maternal greatgrandmother was a sempstress in Scotland and my grandma did needlework of almost every kind. My mother thought handicrafts was something people "did" and didn't use any of her genetic gifts to express herself; but she's the one who started me with a tiny steel crochet hook. Somewhere along the line I started using the hook "wrong"; and later, when I taught myself to kknit, I was told I did that "wrong", too' came to find out I use what's called "Continental" style for both! IMO if it looks like the pictures and gets the job done, "wrong" is right enough. Grandma taught me embroidery and needlepoint, and handsewing. I taught myself the rest.

There isn't a "wrong way" to do a needlework project if it turns out and fits!
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Ummm........sorry, but people who play with dollhouses as adults, imo only of course, are faaaaaaaaar more normal than others. Of course, those people don't argue with me. They already know they won't win :)

Ok, so does it make sense to quote ones self? I made this comment the other day and today, I ram across this quote on facebook which I felt was very appropriate. For anyone who knows him, John Edward posted these words by Ursula Legun.

"The creative adult is the child who survived".

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Your doll outfits are lovely! I was just at the library earlier this evening and I borrowed a few books on how-to-sew doll clothes. I figure that if I learn to sew for my American Girl and Barbies, I should be able to go smaller for my ball jointed dolls.

I cannot afford to clothe my dolls in outfits that cost more than my children's clothing, so I am now on a quest to learn a new hobby - sewing!

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Sam, here's a tip I learned early on as a hand sewer who used to religiously run my needles through an emery bag when they started pulling through the fabric; run them through your hair, instead. The oils in your hair will keep your needle lubricated, but not heavy enough to come off on your fabric (i wipe mine on a tissue after, just because...).

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Thanks Sam! I'll have to post some of the others. That's great that you're going to start making doll clothes! It's a lot of fun and almost as therapeutic as dollhouserie. The easiest thing for me is skirts; they're a cinch to cut and a lot more forgiving. Do you sew already or is this going to be a brand-new talent? By hand or machine?

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Thanks for the tips everyone. Sewing is new to me, unless sewing the buttons back on my husband's shirt count. I have a sewing machine (actually, I did sew two sheets together to make a duvet cover, so I know I can sew straight long seams!) So I will be using a machine as well as hand sewing.

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