Doll Stuff

Tutorial: Fast and Easy Pleats

How to make pleats faster and easier using a plastic fork! I’ve created my first youtube video tutorial (please be kind–I promise to improve as I make more videos 🙂 ) Enjoy! ~Erin

Color Me Happy a New Pattern Released

What colors make you feel happy? Color Me Happy Dress for 18″ dolls is a modern dress, with stunning details. It’s a great opportunity to choose your favorite color combination and sew them into a pretty dress. If you’re like me, you have too many …

Win a Free AG Doll

Enter the Doll Dress Boutique Spring Sewing Challenge The Doll Dress Boutique Spring Sewing Challenge has been so much fun so far. We’re playing “Guess that Dress,” sewing and sharing, supporting and inspiring each other!! And there’s still over 3 weeks left to enter. One …

Doll Dress Boutique Spring Design Challenge

It’s time again for a Doll Dress Boutique Design Challenge! Enter for your chance to win a free American Girl Doll! Doll Dress Boutique Design Challenge! From May 15 through midnight June 30, Avery Lane Sewing Group members will have an opportunity to enter the …

Projects from Doll Dress Boutique

For me, one of the best part of drafting patterns is seeing what others create with my patterns. It’s so inspiring! Here are some projects people are making with Doll Dress Boutique. \ \ Fantastic aren’t they! Happy Sewing! ~Erin

Doll Dress Boutique Bonus Design

Welcome to the final stop on the Doll Dress Boutique book blog tour! I’m so glad you stopped by. Doll Dress Boutique is all about great fitting patterns and teaching seamstresses how to mix and match design elements, empowering readers to be the designer! Don’t …

Fall Happenings

It’s been a whirlwind fall for me with so much going on! The Doll Dress Boutique book blog tour continues through tomorrow and the Doll Dress Boutique Launch Party ended last week. Be sure to see this post for the 411 and see what others …

DDB Book Tour Review Post

The Doll Dress Boutique blog tour stop today is on the talented designer Jane Wilkes’ blog: Janie Carroll Designs. She shares 2 dresses that she made, which are simply gorgeous, and a book review. Stop over to read how she created her beautiful dresses! ~Erin

Doll Dress Boutique Book Tour

Today is the kick-off day for my book, Doll Dress Boutique, Blog Tour!! It starts with another Bonus Design on the C&T Publishing’s Blog. Hop on over to get the free Bonus Pattern to make the O Tannenbaum Dress for American Girl Dolls and other …

So Many Dresses, So Little Time

My new book, Doll Dress Boutique, was released this month! Here’s some of the fun designs from my book. Several dress patterns have special necklines in the back, making them a little extraordinary. Now to find the time to sew 🙂 We’re having …