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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July 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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June 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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I 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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While 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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