By Hook, By Hand

I've been wanting to play around with faces on dolls, so I made up several heads to work with.  For me, on crochet, the simplest faces...

I felt like working on something simple last week, so I made this shrug for my sister for Christmas.  Nothing like the good old single croch...

It has been a tough week.  I lost a friend today to cancer. The final days were long, and hard. On my friend, on her fam...

  photo courtesy NASA Neil Armstrong; the first person to walk on a planet other than our own.  A Navy fighter pilot in the Korean War,...

I love the look of smocking, but I've never been very good at it.  Too cheap to buy a pleater, and too impatient to mark all those littl...

Making wigs and hair for my dolls is my favorite part of the dollmaking process.  Once the doll has a wig, that is when her (or his) persona...

  This nightgown pattern was created several years ago, when I was first bitten by the Bleuette bug.  I'm posting the pattern here, but ...

Here are a couple of very simple dresses you can make for your Bleuette or crochet Bleuette, using the basic camisole as the bodice.  The d...

I love dolls in dainty undergarments.  Undergarments are the first thing I make for a new doll.  Not only does it get her decent quickly, bu...