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Date: 25 May 2002 15:22:12 -0400
From: m.hodge 
Subject: Cabbage Patch sewing

I've really enjoyed reading the posts from the woman who has been sewing
outfits for her Cabbage Patch dolls. (I don't remember her name and
can't look it up because I don't usually save my BFC Digests. I just cut
and paste posts that I need immediately.) Anyway, she sounded like she
was having such fun sewing for her dolls that when I saw two CPK at a
yard sale I bought them. They had obviously never been used and were
still in their (rather battered) boxes dated 1984 and 1985  with intact
adoption papers. Really cute, but rather dusty since the boxes were not
intact. They have tags on them from some local auction place, so I
suspect that the previous owner bought them on spec during the CP craze
but never managed to sell them for more than he paid.

Anyway, now I'm trying to justify having bought them! I don't know if I
will try to sell them on Ebay since they've never been used, or if I'll
just sew for them and save them for our infant grandaughter to play with
when she gets old enough for dolls. It looks like Cabbage Patch patterns
are available on Ebay.

The dolls don't look dirty, but they do smell dusty so I'd want to clean
them before letting a grandchild play with them. That's why I wanted to
ask the person who's been posting if you can toss these dolls in the
washing machine without disaster. I suppose they'd lose their "newness"
but that wouldn't matter to anyone who wasn't a collector.

I don't know why I have this sudden urge to sew doll clothes.   Maybe
it's the effect of having a new grandchild. One advantage to sewing doll
clothes as opposed to baby clothes is that dolls don't outgrow an outfit
before you finish sewing it. I'm such a slow sewer! When my own daughter
was young, there were outfits that she was too large to wear by the time
I had finished them. So after a while I gave up trying to sew clothes
and got into quilting instead. People expect quilts to take a long time
 and are impressed by how long you worked on it.

- --Mary H 



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Date: 25 May 2002 15:44:20 -0400
From: "Maria"  
Subject: Re: Cabbage Patch sewing

Mary,

Sewing for the Cabbage Patch Doll will be fun, should you decide to. My
daughters played with them when they were young and have carefully kept them
for their future children. I sewed, knitted, and crocheted for those dolls,
and enjoyed the doing as well as their pleasure in what I made.

>......... One advantage to sewing doll
> clothes as opposed to baby clothes is that dolls don't outgrow an outfit
> before you finish sewing it. I'm such a slow sewer!

The secret is to sew clothes for your grandchild this summer, with next
summer in mind!  ;-)

Maria S
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BerninaThirtySomethings/



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Date: 25 May 2002 23:32:26 -0400
From: Kwallcoinc 
Subject: Re: slip pattern

Ann-I am a size 18 and 6' tall!! so of course I made my slips-no pattern. The 
trico is very wide-I took my hip measure then added another 1/2 lap and made 
a wrap slip. rounded the corners -BIG rounded corners so it makes almost a 
big "V"-then attached to elastic at the waist-of course I made mine on the 
serger-three thread rolled hem, but stitch length regular rather than "satin 
stitched", but can be done on the regular machine.-kw in nc


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