Round Knit Dishcloth Pattern
Cool round doily style cotton dishrag or mat, written out to be ultra simple for non-knitters like me I saw someone making one of these and got stars in my eyes. She was kind enough to write down the instructions…
Mailbag
Photos of finished projects that people sent in to the old version of this site. I'm uploading them again here because they're all so artistic!
Free Patterns for Tyler Wentworth
I made a bunch of outfits all at once when I needed them for gifts, and here I’m going to share the patterns. These are for the 16″ Tyler Wentworth, here modeled on a Tonner Brenda Starr doll. The white…
Spiral Skirts and Dresses
All patterns are Adobe pdf for free download and printing. They print out onto sheets of 8.5 x 11 printer paper which you tape together then cut out. Be sure they print out at 100% size not “scale to fit”…
Sewing Pattern for Barbie Basics (ModelMuse) body – Halter Top Dress
Free printable sewing pattern for a cute halter top dress. Instructions: Fold over sides of both top pieces and topstitchLay one top piece over the other to the place where the arrow points, pin them together then gather the lower…
Sewing Pattern for 1999 Bellybutton Barbie One-Shoulder Dress
Free Printable Pattern. Someone requested an off-the-shoulder dress. I only glanced at the email and suddenly had a great idea how to do that, and in a flash of creativity, produced this. No, no, she had said “off the shoulder”.…
Bellybutton Barbie V-neck Dress Sewing Pattern
Here’s a free pattern in pdf format to print. This one can be a bodice to add a skirt to, or lengthen the lines to make a flattering princess seams dress. I appreciate a pattern that doesn’t involve shoulder seams.…
Barbie Strapless Dress Free Pattern
Printable sewing pattern to download in pdf form. There’s one for the old 1966 vintage Mattel shape, one for 1999 Bellybutton shape (which I think is most common nowadays), one for skinny Barbie Basics and one for the 2006 shorter…
German Dirndl for Tyler Doll
16″ Tyler sewing pattern slightly adapted into a traditional folklore dress. I made this as an entry in the county fair. Here’s the dirndl bodice pattern to print For the blouse, I used the peasant pattern with the sleeves a…
Simple Segment Skirt Pattern Piece
It’s just a basic skirt shape with some lines marked. Years ago I cut something like this out of heavy paper using a string for a compass, and it’s come in handy dozens of times for all kinds of applications.…
Medieval Dress Pattern for Women
This is about as medieval-looking as I need to be, and I’m sharing my pattern here in case it comes in handy for anyone else. I read the instructions about how to cut a medieval t-tunic dress the authentic historical…
Print Your Own Passport Pictures as 4×6 Photos Using Photoshop
Here’s my Photoshop file if it might help you make your own. Guidelines for U.S. Passport photos are here and they provide a photo template for an example. So what worked for me was to align the example photo they…
Quilt As You Go – String Patchwork
A great idea, and I looked around the internet for instructions, but nothing really clicked and gave me a clear sense that I was ready to get started. I had to mull it over for a couple days. When patchwork…
Gene 16″ Doll Princess Dress Pattern
Princess seams dress I designed for 16 inch Gene Marshall doll. The wedding dress just has a large ruffle added. Here’s the printable pattern for download. Make sure to print the pdf at 100% and not “fit to page”. 1/4″…
Dress Pattern for Bellybutton Barbie
This was the first Barbie dress I designed from scratch, many longs ago. It was by necessity and was jumping into unknown waters for me, as up until then I had been using commercial patterns to make outfits for my…
My Illustrator Class from 2008
People are still finding something about this page useful! Okay. Cool. Then I’ll recreate it. Plus I want to go back and add something that I had intended to do at the time. I need this here so I can…