We are delighted to welcome back our dear friend Ellen for another guest post. Ellen and her mom are absolute whizzes at re-purposing. Thanks for sharing your clever ideas with us, Ellen! – Abbie and Mrs. Brown As you may remember from our last guest post, we enjoy taking old things and giving them new life. My mom had an old pair of sweat pants that had holes in the knees. As she was messing around with her scissors and the pants, she discovered that the ankle makes a great doll skirt! So if you have a pair of old […] Read more »
How to Make a Doll Apron from a Tea Towel
Okay, so this is crazy exciting! EEEEE! (sorry for shouting!) We are superdeeduperdee happy today to bring you our very first guest post on Blossoms and Posies! And while that is exciting in itself, having these two ladies on our blog makes us just feel all wiggly inside because they are two of our very favorite people in the whole wide world! – Abbie and Mrs. Brown Hi! I’m Ellen. Abbie and Mrs. Brown invited me and my mom to do a guest post here. So my mom and I are going to show you how to turn a small […] Read more »
Quick and Easy Doll Cloak
Abbie says: I like working with fleece because you don’t have to hem it and that makes the process go a lot faster. My mom and I came up with this pattern together. My doll Laura is a 14″ Waldorf-style doll. Mrs. Brown says: This pattern can be adapted to any size doll because you use your own doll’s measurement as the base measurement. Materials: Fleece (we used white) Ribbon (we used red satin 5/8″ ribbon) Flower (we used a 1″ pre-made red ribbon flower) Scissors Thread Needle Directions 1) Cut a semicircle of fleece for the cloak. To find […] Read more »