As much as I love to sew things for gifts to friends and family and sew items to sell for my sewing business, I guess there is no feeling better than sewing for those who are less fortunate. I joined a group of wonderful ladies about 4 years ago: The Lone Star Smockers. This group [...]
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Continue ReadingJuly 2010 – Many of us read Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland when we were young, or had it read to us. I really barely remember it but just recently bought a book on ebay that has both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I haven’t read the latter, or if I [...]
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Continue ReadingJune 2010 I have a doll named Tammi Himstedt from the Annette Himstedt collection of 2003. The Asian dolls have always appealed to me and I love to sew for them using some of my Oriental styled fabrics. I liked her face but I’m not a big fan of the wild looking mohair wig. There [...]
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Continue ReadingI belong to a smocking guild…..The Lone Star Smockers. We were able to get a grant to hire an instructor to come to our area of Texas to teach us how to do several hand stitches that some of us had never tried before. It was 3 days of classes learning new smocking stitches, heirloom [...]
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Continue ReadingWhile at IDEX I met a “face up” artist. Her name is Leah Lilly. She is a friend of Kim Lasher’s and lives up in that part of the country. I chatted with her at the Pizza Party at Jeanie’s condo during my trip to Orlando. I told her of my SD BJD that I [...]
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Continue ReadingAt IDEX I met a doll artist named Dawn Donfronio. She sculpts dolls and then has kits made for reborn artists to paint and add hair and make bodies and attach the limbs and head. She “reborned” 6 of her own kit called “Tiny Sleeper”. This kit is a preemie baby body and sculpt that [...]
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