I didn't like making paper
dolls when I was little. I don't think I drew very well. Plus I
couldn't get the clothes to fit the bodies. When I was little, I
preferred my Dawn Dolls and my Fashion Flatsy's. I'd go into Mama's
cupboard and I'd get out her scrap box. She let me take whatever in
there that I wanted. I'd cut squares out of the prettiest fabrics.
Then I cut holes in the squares for armholes, and make dresses for my
dolls, and I'd put arms for holes. I cut strips to use as
waistbands, and I cut out circles, with holes in the middle for my
dolls to wear as hats.
I knew this wasn't real
sewing. One time Mama helped me real-sew a doll's dress. It was
very hard, and took a lot of sewing, and when I was done one of the
arms was out inside-out. Mama sewed another one from the same
pattern, which is how I knew mine wouldn't have been any good even if
I had sewn it right. It wasn't really a dress, more like kind of a
bathrobe, and made out of stiff, ugly pink-flowered cloth. I liked
my own pretend-dresses, that were really just squares, but were long
and pretty, and showed off the dolls' boobs.
