Katy, over at No Bill Dill, had a blog post yesterday about her first memories of sewing. It got me thinking about my first memories of sewing. I was impressed that she actually had the item that she had stitched as a young child. Then, last night, I suddenly remembered the little paper dolls that I had…actually my youngest daughter now has them. And they aren’t made from paper, they are made from some type of plastic.
I got them when I was about five years old. My grandmother’s church always had a bizarre at Christmas and spring time. All the church women would make crafts to sell at the bizarre. I purchased these wonderful dolls and played with them constantly I immediately realized that they didn’t come with enough clothes and I had to make more!
(I don’t think I named the dolls until several years later…as I can see by the cover of the folder!)
I remember asking my mom for some material. She had just finishing sewing an Easter dress for me and had some left over material. So, I cut out some outfits for my dolls. I don’t know if you would exactly call this “stitching”….it was more like cutting and gluing. But I did have to stitch on the snaps….and it took a long time to sew on all those snaps!
But I did keep the dolls, all these years. And my children all loved playing with them!
