
Announcement Home, garden, and homestead lifestyle renewal. Instructions may include photos, hand-drawings, both. Hand-engineered templates. Low-tech and artisanal. I am not Walmart, Amazon, or China.
Announcement
Home, garden, and homestead lifestyle renewal. Instructions may include photos, hand-drawings, both. Hand-engineered templates. Low-tech and artisanal. I am not Walmart, Amazon, or China.
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Jennifer on May 17, 2022
5 out of 5 starsItem was just as described. With this pattern I have sewn a fabulous harvest apron. The apron is well designed and super cute.
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Sofia on May 9, 2022
5 out of 5 starsthis was my first time sewing using a pattern & this was a great beginner project. i have made a few of these so far for myself and a couple friends. very easy to understand & great result.
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Cassie on Apr 28, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThe dog is cute and the pattern was really easy to follow. My only complaint is some of the directions were a little vague for someone who has never sewed a plush before. It wasn’t obvious that this had to be hand sewn or what stitch types to use. But I was able to figure it out with some googling and still make a really cute dog.
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About SweaterDoll
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Finally settled into a wonky 1891 cottage after a lifetime of free spirit wandering.
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This is the potholder that started my hand stitching journey when I was 7 years old.
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For years, I designed stitching projects for more than 100 issues of print magazines & dozens of international blogs.
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Professional can be low tech, down home, and simple. Dyscalculia makes it practically impossible for me to master tech.
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Sweaterdolls were my first handmade items sold on Etsy. These are mini-me sweaterdolls of hubby and me.
A wanderer now settled down and homesteading
Most people wouldn't live the way I do. I live simply, with my husband, in a small, semi-rural town in the midwestern U.S. We don't have a TV or cell phones. I've never had a cell phone.
Life has been a free-spirit adventure. From the midwest, to New York City where my kids were born, to Alaska, to coastal California, the Arizona desert, and then Australia. I ended up near where I started off in the midwest to help care for my elderly dad, an incredibly sweet man.
After he died at 91, I found the potholder I made for him when I was 7 years old. It was that potholder that started a lifetime of hand stitching anything I could get my hands on. I made my first patchwork quilt at 14, made from old clothes begged from neighbors when I ran out of fabric bits of my own.
Making things is my way of going on adventures, especially now that hubby and I are settled down where we are. Although I designed patterns professionally, I always used the simplest materials to convey the pattern. I am autistic but also have dyscalculia, which is a little like dyslexia for math. The area that I can't seem to master is technology. I use simple, old-fashioned methods. I have a second love: making plant medicines and foraging for wild edibles. And now I'm homesteading and raising chickens and hanging out with the local Amish folk.
I also have a budding homesteading blog whose focus is share the "old ways" of living. No one expected the Great Depression and we're seeing a lot of instability in our times. It's good to know how to live without dependence on corporations and governments. https://noplacelikehomestead.blogspot.com/
Please enjoy the browse in my shop. My patterns are pretty simple and not very techie. I don't do techie. But I do variety so there's lots to choose from.
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Allison Dey
Owner, Designer, Maker
After years of stitching for home and family, designing for craft & sewing magazines, I am settled down as a homesteader, blogging about "old ways" of living, and enjoying the simple life.
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Toy safety standards vary from region to region. Please check the infant and child safety requirements in your area before giving or selling a toy made using a SweaterDoll pattern. The patterns adhere to sound safety practices required of soft toys in the US and Australia.
Spot clean or hand wash finished toys and dolls made by me. They are made from cottons, linens, and wool and are filled with Australian wool fleece.
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By purchasing a pattern, you agree not to share, upload elsewhere, or resell the pattern either as a digital download or printed pattern. You are prohibited from giving or selling any of my patterns to a magazine, blog, or book publisher. You may make items for personal use or to give as gifts or donate to charities. Permission is given to home business or cottage industry. to make and sell items using my patterns. Australian and US craft copyright protects SweaterDoll from unapproved sale of mass-produced items made from these patterns.
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