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 way, but my attempts didn’t come out very well. I would have had to adjust …
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 provided into a 600×600 pixel square in Photoshop. Here is that Photoshop file with the …
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 over the idea for a couple days. When patchwork quilting was first explained to me as a child, I thought it was a …
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″ seams included. Brief Instructions: Fold over the top edge of the front and stitch. Sew …
Dress Pattern for 1999 Barbie Bellybutton

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. Up until then I had been happily using commercial patterns to make outfits for my daughters’ dolls, but at some point four of their nine Barbies were the new bellybutton …