This year’s American Girl Doll Halloween costume is a little different. Meet Elmoy, the American Girl Doll Bounty hunter, scourge of Giant Furry Terrors everywhere!
This 18th Century blue silk mantelet, sewn for my American Girl Felicity doll, is a special piece of clothing – it is made of memories.
This enormous Edwardian doll was made from a kit by a sadly no-longer-in-operation doll hat pattern company called Cathy Stuart Designs.
Fresh from the archives: Inspired by fashion plates that pair breezy summer dresses with big straw hats, here’s my pink American Girl 1860s summer dress.
Fresh from the archives: inspired by an 1815 fashion plate, this American Girl Doll regency ballgown was sewn as a distraction from reality during my final presentations in grad school. Sewing ALWAYS trumps technical panels.
When I saw a portrait of Queen Victoria’s family, I knew i had to sew my own mid-Victorian Winterhalter dress for my American Girl Doll.
One afternoon I went a little bit crazy with wired ribbons and made something like six thousand dozen roses. Voila! A straw hat from a dollar store becomes an 1860s American Girl doll summer hat!
After sewing up a pair of Zombie Halloween Monkeys, I turned to dressmaking and made an 1860s Halloween Ensemble for my American Girl Doll!
My cracktastic little halloween-y 1860s doll hat, last seen looking like something out of a montage of bad 80s bridesmaids dresses, is BACK.
Here is Vogue 7923 again, this time as a black domino cloak with a scarlet satin lining for an American Girl Doll!
