the Baby Doll Jeans

My 101th completed sewing project for 2008!


This is yet another piece of matching clothing for Prairie's baby doll for Christmas.

The Rainbow Footed Jammies

My 100th completed sewing project for 2008!



Autumn told me that she wanted footed pajamas this year. I actually got this fabric for her pajamas back in April, but have been dreading sewing her pajamas, because the pattern I have for footed pajamas only goes up to 4T and for pajamas Autumn really needed a size 6. I have drafted patterns up in sizes before, but it isn't fun so I had been dreading it. Then my mom suggested where to look to find a footed pajama pattern. I found a one that has sizes from 4-14, and then called my local fabric shop and they carried it so we went out that afternoon and bought the pattern and then I sewed up the pajamas that night. I love patterns.

Autumn calls herself the rainbow fairy when she wears these jammies.

Prairie's Ariel Pajamas

My 99th completed sewing project for 2008!



These aren't the best pictures of Prairie, but she was absolutely thrilled with her Ariel nightdress, and she actually wore it, and if you know Prairie that is a miracle because she is a naked kid, so since Christmas eve when she got her new jammies she hasn't slept naked, yay!

Spiderman Pajamas Part 3

My 98th completed sewing project for 2008!


These are the spiderman jammies that I made for my 3-year-old nephew. It might not look it in this picture, but he was really pleased with his new pajamas. We then took pictures with both of the boys and our baby boy doll together. I think we will have to do this photo shoot again in March when our little infant baby boy can wear his spiderman pajamas.

Bear Long Sleeve t-shirt for Doll

My 97th completed sewing project for 2008!


Another matching t-shirt for Prairie's baby doll for christmas

Kitty Cat Long Sleeve T-shirt for doll

My 96th completed sewing project for 2008!

Another matching t-shirt for Prairie's baby doll for Christmas

Spiderman Pajamas Part 2

My 95th completed sewing project for 2008!


So after I cut out the 2 pairs of pajamas for my nephews, and then decided there was enough fabric to make my little baby boy a pair of spiderman pj's, so I cut those out. There were still some decent sized scraps leftover, so I drew up a pajama pattern for this baby. This baby doll is an anatomically correct baby boy doll that Ben got to use for work when he had kids that have been sexually abused. Since we found out that we are having a boy, Ben has let the girls borrow it at home to play with. Well the baby didn't have any clothes and I thought it was high time that this little baby boy had some clothes to wear, so FINALLY this baby has some clothes that actually fit him, and now he is more appropriate for when Ben wants to take him back to work.

Spiderman Pajamas Part 1

My 94th completed sewing project for 2008!




We had Ben's sister for Christmas that has 2 little boys. The 3 year-old loves Spiderman so we thought matching spiderman pajamas for the boys would be a lot of fun. This is little Dean wearing his Spiderman jammies, doesn't he look excited?!

Yoga Mat Bags

My 92nd and 93rd completed sewing projects for 2008!


The girls are getting yoga mats for Christmas and so of course they had to have bags for their mats to go into. So I used some of Ben's old khaki pants that he could no longer use, and cut off the legs to make the yoga mat bags and then appliqued the girls' names on the bags.

Baby Doll Body

My 91st completed sewing project for 2008!

the completed doll that Prairie got for Christmas

I am very very picky about baby dolls. I don't want my girls to just play with any baby doll, I want it to be a doll that I think is very cute, and so I am very selective about what I let into your home on the baby doll basis. Prairie got a baby doll for her 1st birthday, but it is a very small doll, and more difficult to make clothes more. Recently she has gotten really into dressing her doll, but we don't really have clothes to fit her doll, and there are a lot of clothes to fit Auutmn's doll.

I thought it would be nice if Prairie had a doll the same size as Autumn's doll. But like I said I am very picky. Well sometime during the summer, like in June I found a doll head that I really liked at the local thrift store, but I hated the limbs on it. Well I searched and searched on the internet and could never find a good place to buy doll replacement limbs. So finally I was at the thrift store again and found a doll that had perfect limbs for my baby doll. So I hijacked the two dolls and switched the heads, and actually made an entire new body for the doll for Prairie.

My mom a year ago replaced the body for Autumn's doll because her doll is about 24 years old, and it was wearing out, so I had the original body as a pattern, so that the dolls would be the same size.

If I were to redo it I would know better how to make sure the doll actualyl had shoulders, but it turned out pretty well.


The orignal body and limbs of the head used for Prairie's baby, and then I put that second head with that body (so this is the baby that is getting donated back to the thrift store, because I really do not like the limbs or the head)

The body parts from Autumn's doll being used as a pattern to make a new body for Prairie's baby doll.


Prairie's baby doll head and limbs assembled from two different baby dolls waiting for their new body.