Random Roundup

Lynne has gone back to the Old Country for a few days (i.e., the Deep South), so we get to enjoy the company of the Green Acres dogs:


Little Blind Sparky and Minute the Great Armadillo Hunter.

Tom obligingly went through bins in the attic and garage looking for Barbie stuff OTHER than dolls. I’ll be posting about some of that later, but in the meantime, I found this scrap of honest-to-goodness 1970s fabric. I don’t know what I’ll use it for–it’s not much material–but I’m sure you’ll eventually see it on one of the Mattel Top Models.

Last week–or maybe two weeks ago–Tim and I were running errands, and I unexpectedly discovered a trove of fabrics for WAY cheap. (In fact, when the associate checked me out, she was exclaiming over one of the remnants that she’d missed when she was going through them. She and some others use them in quilts they make for the children at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Since I always run into the kindest people when I shop, it seems like I’d enjoy shopping, but I don’t.)

The picture below doesn’t feature the fabric she liked, but is one I bought that night. I decided to use it for a Barbie dress from a pattern circa early 1960s. The price is vintage, too: I made this dress for less than fifty cents. Doesn’t Tamala wear it like a million bucks?


Last party of the summer.

22 thoughts on “Random Roundup”

      1. If you ever make it back to the Big Apple you have to pay a visit to this place.

        I was in the market for some tassels for a throw pillow (the originals were lost in what my niece and nephew happily refer to as “The Great Pillow Fight” and I call “The Night I Cried Myself to Sleep”) and I stopped by there this afternoon. It’s a mind-blowing experience! Buttons, bows, sequins, fringes, cords, and about a gazillion different kinds of tassels. In fact, the tassels that I bought are even better than the ones that were lost. (But don’t tell that to my niece and nephew!)

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    1. Bingo! Thanks.

      I’m looking forward to the return of PR. I’m not sure there’ll BE a LJ Runway. We’ll see if anyone other than me is interested when the time comes.

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    1. Thank you! I’ve noticed that I’m getting better in tiny ways. My stitches are much smaller and more even. I wonder if most people realize I do ALL of this by hand, because I have no machine?

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      1. I didn’t realize that… wow! I am even more impressed!

        My grandma used to make lovely Barbie clothes, but I believe she used a machine. She also knit some of the clothes with tiny little needles and tiny little stitches! As a child I loved the clothes she gave me for my dolls.

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        1. I wonder if I’d use a machine if I had one? So much of it has to be done by hand, plus I’d get tired of changing the thread, that it’s probably just as easy to keep doing it the way I am.

          The items in my collection I wonder most about are those that are homemade, including knitted items. I wonder if the girls who gave them to me wish they still had the handiwork of their mothers, grandmothers, and aunts. I’ve never thrown away one thing that was given to me. I wish all those generous girls from my past could know that.

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  7. material

    I think that is some of the material left over from when they had the camper and was used for either curtains or pillows. If I remember correctly but since I am now in the early stages of alzhemiers (self diagnosed of course)I couldn’t swear to it. But for some reason when I saw the material the camper jumped in my head. 🙂
    DLC

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    1. Re: material

      I love that you remember that! I didn’t spend much time in the camper at all, so I barely remember it. You, on the other hand, took that trip to NOLA in it (heh heh heh).

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