Little girl's gifts in minutes--sew a simple mix and match 18" doll wardrobe. Nancy and designer Joan Hinds create quick 18" doll clothes that are simple enough for beginning sewers. Learn to sew ...

MANISTEE — Local crafter Linda Muszynski takes to heart the words of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw every time she ...

What started out as a hobby has turned into quite a booming business for Betty Glastetter of Oran, Mo. Glastetter, who is 73, worked as a sewing machine operator for Thorngate in Chaffee, Mo., for ...

When Sandy Taylor was a girl, her whole family made doll clothes: her sister, her mother, even her father, who worked shifts at a factory. The Taylor sisters had Barbies, and those Barbies had dozens ...

Shelly Figueroa isn't limited to what a handful of big-box retailers, with their racks of fluorescent-lit garments, decide Americans should wear. Instead, the Lake Oswego pattern designer makes ...

As a young girl, Morgan Doane spent many hours crafting with her mom and styling Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake dolls. "I was a doll maniac," she said. "I had 7 million Barbies." Fast forward two ...

Beth Wehrman’s eyes darted back and forth over the smorgasbord of handsewn doll clothes with the intensity of a mathematician surveying a complex equation. With her blue dress, sequins dotting the top ...

Six years ago, Renita Yahara was given several large boxes of material from a friend. Yahara, of Elizabethtown, started searching online for a way to use the material that would help others. That’s ...

Turn an 18" doll into a "fashionista." Sew coordinating outfits quickly and easily. Author and designer Joan Hinds teams up with Nancy to sew a versatile collection of clothes for 18" dolls, each sewn ...