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Sharing 1962 Novel “Here’s Barbie” Excerpt
About as different from that awful movie as it’s possible to get. In this first explanation of Barbara Roberts, she …
Protein Cookies Recipe: Going Unsweetened
My daughter showed me Granny Guns on Instagram and I wanted protein cookies. Her recipe is a bit too focused …
Great Cocoa Marshmallow Cookies
I went looking for marshmallows without pig to make smores. The health store had only mini marshmallows. I bought them …
Barbie One Size Fits All Sewing Patterns
I see a real need for this. It’s a simple, easy dress to fit any Barbie shape. We have a …
My First Barbie 13.5″ Free Printable Sewing Pattern
Oh guys, it’s been a journey, I must say. More about that later. At the moment I’m *grateful* that I …
Denim skirt for Barbie BFF 28″
By request! Here’s a cute country girl look. The crop top is the peasant pattern shortened a little and elastic …
Spiral Lace Single Crochet Mat
Therapy crochet while I listened to a message at home. I started messing with dishcloth cotton because I need some …
Crochet Openwork Octagon Square Motif
Built from the septagon mat, but I decided to make this a separate post. I was so tickled with how …
Crochet Openwork Septagon Counter Mat
I wanted, not a dishcloth, but a cotton round to lie on the kitchen counter for cushion under pans and …
My Homemade Hand Crank Singer 403A
Could it be this easy? Just add a knob to the hand wheel? I didn’t know, but the motor doesn’t …
About Me
I’ve had some kind of block lately and have to force myself to write. This is an exercise. “Write something.” …
Spirographs in Ivy Draw
But can it make Spirographs? Yes, it can! Only basic ones, not fancy designs like Illustrator, but they’re pretty and …
Enlarge Patterns Without a Printer: Inch Square Grid Method
If you need to transfer sewing patterns or other patterns from pdf document to paper without a printer, here’s one …
Ivy Draw – Vector Graphics Editor for Android
Loving this app! Absolute genius and SO affordable. It fills in the gap when I need to get something done …
Jumper Dress Pattern for Women
It’s about as simple, basic and easy as a sewing pattern can get. Free pdf to print at home. Free …
Diamond Granny Crochet Motif
I was having a granny square thing for a while and churned out a bunch of scrapghans. But what about …
Six Petal Flower Crochet Motif
Amazing! From my imagination to a motiv that was exactly what I had in mind, on the first try. That’s …
Update Nov 2021
Here’s the latest tidying of my website! I wanted it to be completely on Wordpress since I’m about to move …
Princess Dress Pattern for Curvy Barbie
I love Miss Blue’s beautiful space princess hair. Of course my first dress for her had to be a princess …
Make Charted Needlework Graphs in Adobe Illustrator CS5 using Live Paint
The goal was to make a square chart for cross-stitch or needlepoint by tracing a background image onto a grid …
Barbie 28 inch Peasant Top and Hawaiian Dress
Here’s another dress pattern to make your own outfits for Best Fashion Friend Barbie. NOTE this is NOT the regular …
Barbie 28 inch Best Fashion Friend Classic Dress
I realize this is Thanksgiving week and there are a lot of grandmas out there who need some 28″ Barbie …
Sushi Cushion to Sew
Here’s a great project from a reader named Susan. She wanted to sew a sushi pillow as a gift for …
My New Pfaff Sewing Machine
From May 2009. I’m putting it back because it is still one of my favorite stories! I went to the …
I was given this pattern with written out row by row directions. I was new to knitting. But was easy…