Patterns for the baby outfit on the cover, a Russian blouse for a schoolgirl, "Dutch Boy" quilt embroidery pattern, how to make yarn flowers, lots of pattern offers, and household tips (including how to get your little girl interested in doing dishes. An apron of her very own should do the trick).
A free download from the Antique Pattern Library.
When I was young, I'd rather have had a new dress for my doll than a new doll. My grandmother tricked me into sewing for a lifetime, teaching me to make doll clothes. Dishwashing, not so much.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really good issue. My grandmother taught me to embroider before I went to school, but never, ever let me touch her old treadle machine. She knit and crocheted, but without a pattern as that's the way she was taught and couldn't understand modern patterns. I love making old fashioned baby clothes and baby doll clothes, too.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother would make each of the 4 granddaughters a new dress. If you were well behaved, your baby doll got a matching dress. My youngest sister always dreaded Easter as Dad liked the 4 of us in matching dresses. That meant she was stuck wearing the same dress for years!
ReplyDeleteSam - Good point. The DD has two look alike daughters, 2 years apart. Tempting to make them matching dresses (the little one isn't a year yet), but won't. It will be the same but different. I bet the 4 granddaughters looked adorable, though.
ReplyDeleteI always made a doll dress to match any outfit I made our girls. I dressed my daughters, as Bunny said, the same but different. Same pattern but different fabric, usually.
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