I am Lorine Taylor.
When I was a little girl l liked to make doll clothes for my dolls – a Sweet Sue. When I was 10 years old I was given a Howdy Doody doll with a string to pull which made his mouth open and close.
He became my favorite doll. Several times he had to make a trip to a doll hospital to get his head repainted and his insides cleaned out from all the raisins and crackers he was fed. Over the years his body deteriorated, but I kept his head.
When I became a mother, I began making cloth dolls and doll clothes for my children. Then, when my four girls were just about grown, I discovered American Girl dolls. I received their catalogs and would wish for one. About 12 years ago, my girls got together and bought an American Girl ‘Today Girl’ for me. She has auburn hair and blue eyes like me. I painted some freckles on her face. Thus began my serious step into sewing and
designing doll clothes.
I sewed for my four daughters and some for my sons and my husband, so I knew some tricks and such. I bought most of the patterns available for the 18” dolls, but have had to develop a few patterns on my own. I try to sew the doll clothes the same way that I would sew them for children, but I haven’t mastered tiny button holes yet!
Over the past few years I have acquired more dolls. I made a new body for Howdy Doody with a plastic armature inside, so he is pose-able. A few of the dolls I have acquired are boy dolls and I have bought several American Girl dolls on EBay that had bad hair cuts and then cut their hair even more, so they look like boys. I now have over two dozen dolls. They are from various makers – American Girl, Bitty Twins, Goetz, Engel Puppen, Laura Ashley, Disney and Madame Alexander. They are not all 18”; some are 19”, some are 15” or 16”.
Then I began collecting furniture and other little items to make scenes with my dolls. I have a large table in my family room that I use to make my scenes on and to display my dolls. It has been so fun to find the little things and to put together my scenes. This is the reason for this website – to share my scenes with you. I hope you enjoy viewing them and will share them with others. Aren’t we all little children at heart?!
When I was a little girl l liked to make doll clothes for my dolls – a Sweet Sue. When I was 10 years old I was given a Howdy Doody doll with a string to pull which made his mouth open and close.
He became my favorite doll. Several times he had to make a trip to a doll hospital to get his head repainted and his insides cleaned out from all the raisins and crackers he was fed. Over the years his body deteriorated, but I kept his head.When I became a mother, I began making cloth dolls and doll clothes for my children. Then, when my four girls were just about grown, I discovered American Girl dolls. I received their catalogs and would wish for one. About 12 years ago, my girls got together and bought an American Girl ‘Today Girl’ for me. She has auburn hair and blue eyes like me. I painted some freckles on her face. Thus began my serious step into sewing and
designing doll clothes. I sewed for my four daughters and some for my sons and my husband, so I knew some tricks and such. I bought most of the patterns available for the 18” dolls, but have had to develop a few patterns on my own. I try to sew the doll clothes the same way that I would sew them for children, but I haven’t mastered tiny button holes yet!
Over the past few years I have acquired more dolls. I made a new body for Howdy Doody with a plastic armature inside, so he is pose-able. A few of the dolls I have acquired are boy dolls and I have bought several American Girl dolls on EBay that had bad hair cuts and then cut their hair even more, so they look like boys. I now have over two dozen dolls. They are from various makers – American Girl, Bitty Twins, Goetz, Engel Puppen, Laura Ashley, Disney and Madame Alexander. They are not all 18”; some are 19”, some are 15” or 16”.
Then I began collecting furniture and other little items to make scenes with my dolls. I have a large table in my family room that I use to make my scenes on and to display my dolls. It has been so fun to find the little things and to put together my scenes. This is the reason for this website – to share my scenes with you. I hope you enjoy viewing them and will share them with others. Aren’t we all little children at heart?!
