So years ago I found a blog with a free cloth doll pattern that I fell in love with. This pattern is the reason I learned to crochet so that I could do that wig caps. At this point this will be the 6th of these dolls that I have made and I love how every one of them have turned out. Thank you again to Beth at by hook by hand. Her blog is full of beautiful patterns and tutorials. That was a great place for me to learn how to crochet in particular.
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So as I don't personally have girls, my sons aren't interested in playing with dolls though they have been offered, and my best friend had two daughters. I decided instead of worrying about making a doll for my boys that they would want or that they would want as an heirloom. I decided to make a doll and wardrobe set for the girls when they turned five. So now that my youngest niece had turned five, it was time to make her her dolly. I had a lot of fun putting this together. Little girl loves chicken so I had to make sure that they were chickens all over everything. And of course anything that she got that was different patterns than what her older sister got. I also made copies for her older sister for her set. My hope is that these girls will love these toys for a long long time and that maybe their daughters might like them too. Having a doll like this with the big wardrobe and all contained in a little box and all of these things was something that I really wanted as a young girl.
I found as a young girl baby dolls and Barbies were fitting what I wanted out of a doll ,unfortunately I was not able to communicate what I wanted out of my toys to my parents at the time (though knowing my mother, she wouldn't have cared anyway as the fact that I wasn't conforming to wanting baby dolls and Barbies was already an indication to her that I didn't like dolls at all. Fast forward to 30 plus years of doll making and a vast collection of dolls and toys that I have made myself to try to fill that niche of what I tried to explain to her as a 4-year-old as what I wanted out of a doll and out of my toys)
