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Oh my goodness...we are just going to start solids next week and this would be perfect. Please, please, please!!

Curtains pillows for our new apartment. I have handsewed curtains before (in desperation), but there is no way that I want to do it again!

Capri # 2, in orange. Mmm.

I would love to know what you end up doing, as my papillon is very attached to her hideous plastic crate. I have thought about cutting air holes and a door in a sturdy box, decoupaging it with wallpaper, and setting it over the kennel for a quick fix...

Ooo - so lovely!

Might as well try, 'cause I'd be awfully happy if I won!

I've been saving up my luck for this one, I guess. (Crosses fingers.)

A year ago, my employer allowed me to take a class in print production at a local university. The course turned out to be much less helpful than I had hoped and the instructor seemed to delight in tossing out platitudes about art instead of the nitty-gritty printing details that I wanted.

Our final assignment was to design packaging for an item that could (theoretically) come out of a vending machine. At this point in the semester I was tired of completely irrelevant projects and decided to combine this with my Christmas gift for a cousin's two little girls. So, I designed patterns - my first ever! - for two small dolls, along with matching dresses, coats, hats, and shoes. I spent hours machine and handstitching them (along with making my own boxes), and the instructor was quite pleased that I was making a "statement" about handmade vs. made in China. I didn't have the heart to tell her that my true statement was to insert a touch of practicality into an otherwise useless assignment.

Anyhow, I made the dolls to match the little girls and I will never forget the looks on their faces when they tore off the wrapping paper and discovered that their dollies were made to look like them. Made. Not produced.

It made me want to sew a doll for every child I know.