About Me

Hello, it’s lovely to meet you.

I’ve been sewing tiny clothing for tiny dolls since I was six years old.

I remember being so frustrated that my Barbies didn’t have realistic layers of clothing. According to family legend, my mother was so sick of my whinging she gave me fabric and a needle and told me to make my own. I sewed for Barbies for years, usually with patterns from Estelle Ansley Worrell’s The Doll Book. I never designed my own, but I always loved researching designs and trying to tweak her patterns so they were more historically accurate.

Fast forward 30+ years. I hadn’t sewn for pleasure in years -- at first because I felt silly and embarrassed about my love of tiny dolls and then because life got in the way.

At the end of April 2020, quarantine was beginning to drive me batty. I’d run out of adult coloring books and baked all the banana bread my family could handle. So, I decided to challenge myself to create my own patterns for a doll I’d purchased years ago from Prairie Crocus Studio.

I researched styles and pattern drafting and started experimenting. It led to more algebra and geometry than I’ve ever done before and a trip to the hospital for a needle-in-leg incident, but I’ve discovered a pleasure and joy in creating that I never thought I’d get to have.

All the clothing, hair, and accessories are hand-drafted by me using original sources from the era and made as historically accurate as possible in 1:6 scale. My doll blanks are designed by Prairie Crocus Studio.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoy my little costumes. If you have any questions, or would like more information about a project, please don’t hesitate to ask!

xx

Lins