Little Mermaids

So I made mermaid tails for each of my kids crochet dolls and for my own doll, then I got my daughter to set up an underwater scene for the dolls - a friend who makes doll stuff with me also joined our little under water party and we had some fun with a photo session!  I think it came out so cute!  I started with the free pattern on the Red Heart website - but I adjusted it some.  I used fingering weight yarn and instead of working it in one square piece and then closing up the seam, I worked the top in a flat piece and added a snap at the top and worked the tail part in a round.  I used some pretty variegated sock yarn to get some really cute scale looking tails for the dolls.  I can add the specifics of my changes if anyone is interested!  

Books

I've been having a lot of fun with some book binding lately.  I found some amazing You Tube Video Tutorials from Sea Lemon and learned a lot from them!  But I wanted to make miniature books for my doll, so I used some printables from American Girl Ideas Website and printed them off at 50% and then cut them out and made a tiny book to fit the book cover and covered it up!

I also wanted to make some classics, so I've been making a bunch kind of in the style of the old Barnes and Noble classics books.  I will share when they are done - but in the mean time, if you want any specific classic books - I can easily drop them into the template I made and make everyone's favorites!

Crochet Dolls

So I've made these dolls for each of my kids - they each got their own doll, supposed to look like them.  I also made a doll for myself.  I've been having a lot of fun lately making doll clothes.  I started with the patterns in the book shown and linked to below, but then I started making adjustments and playing around.  The hair on the boys for starters was my own idea.  I've also done lots of playing around with clothes.  I've got more pictures of outfits I've made for my doll and as I get stuff done, I will post more here.