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The Frannie Adventure Doll - Designing a Rag Doll
The Frannie Adventure Doll - Designing a Rag Doll

Over the last few months I’ve been hard at work developing a pattern for a Rag Doll. “Why a Rag Doll?” you might ask. Well the truth is that I’ve always loved dolls. I loved my barbies, I loved my china dolls, and I loved hand made rag dolls as well. When I was 8 years old, My Grandma Fran gave me her Bisque Baby Doll that she got when she was 8. I still have that doll. It’s a little worse for wear and needs some attention but I still have it.

I also loved making dolls and made quite a few as a child. It always gave me pleasure and I was infinitely fascinated by the process.

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Dolls, costume design, Historic Fashion, Lingerie, self careJennifer SerrThe Sewing Roomdoll making, doll art, doll clothing, doll-art, sewing dolls, cothing for dolls, 1920s, 1920's fashion, 1920s underwear, vintage style, vintage lingerie, doll pattern, the frannie adventure doll, frannie doll, pixie faire, pixie faire designer, miss fisher style, miss fisher inspired, miss fisher murder mysteries, 1920s style doll
Sewing Elegant Rag Dolls - with Ann Wood Handmade
Sewing Elegant Rag Dolls - with Ann Wood Handmade

Recently, my good friend JoAnne took at trip to Los Angeles to take an art class.  What a renegade idea!  If she could do it, then so could I!  The opportunity arose, to do just that, when I got an email from Ann Wood Handmade back in January or February, announcing a class she would be teaching in Los Angeles, in March.  I jumped at the chance, because...

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Dolls, Sewing, Sewing VintageJennifer SerrFrench Generalsewing, sewing blogs, sewing dolls, ann wood handmade, annwoodhandmade, hand sewing, vintage textiles, antique textiles, french general, vintage travel, sewing classes for sewing teachers, sewingblogger