Beds for the 18 inch doll can run over a hundred dollars - and they look amazing. There are also tutorials showing how you can make your own bed for an 18 inch doll out of a clementine box or scrap lumber - but then you have to find storage space for them ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to have to make another chair (once I finish off the new box of oatmeal) so I can photo-document how I did this but ( Read more... )

A young friend of mine recently more than doubled her population of 18 inch dolls. This led to the dismayed observation that she didn't have enough pyjamas for everyone. So I leapt into the breech - Five dolls = five sets of pyjamas.

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I decided to cast on the first of the owl fingerless gloves after dinner tonight (fwiw, the game was Labyrinth card game and B won). This is the pattern I came up with, but I'm making much shorter gloves in order to test the pattern ... well, faster. For some reason, I decided to make the left glove first - most patterns start with the right. I ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I showed a picture of Dagger Wren wearing the dress that Miki came with. My parents were raising 8 children at that time, so it should come as no surprise that we (my baby sister rec'd Miki's "sister" doll, Kimi) did not get, nor did we expect to get any of the clothes for the dolls that were commercially available. So, I made outfits ( Read more... )

This is Miki.

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