I sew and knit for my dolls. That started with Barbie etc. then some Monster High/Ever After High dolls jumped into the collection. The latest arrivals are Tyler Wentworth and Alexandra Fairchild Ford, which are 16″ dolls. A lot of mine are thrift-store finds, so they arrive naked and (often) grubby. I also build dioramas, and you’ll find links to those posts here once I compile them. I’ve added pattern references to some of the pages, too.
Making for EverAfterHigh and Monster High
Dioramas
My Girls
11.5 – 12″ Fashion Dolls
The first two dolls shown here were mine as a kid and I still have them. My American Girl is blonde and my Dramatic Living Barbie is a redhead. Top Model Resort is a girl found at the thrift store – she was nude, but I wanted a girl with the Model Muse body and she was in good shape. (I would love to find her original clothes etc.)
I also have two girls with the Bellybutton body sculpt, both thrift store finds and nude, which aren’t shown here. One is a My Scene doll – Bling Bling Chelsea – so even though her body is the same as Barbie , her head is bigger. The other is a blonde I’ve not yet managed to identify.
Below them are the Silkstones…
I also have some Barbie dolls that I don’t undress, since they’re in period costumes. (I chose these images of them since I’m an unboxer.)
And this is where I’m stopping with the 11.5″ dolls. If I add more, they’ll be the older body sculpt – these last two articulated Silkstones and the Jade just look too thin to me. (Although Poppy Parker has the most adorable face…)
16″ Fashion Dolls
I only discovered these in 2023 – about 25 years after they were introduced. 🙂 Although I’ve bought most of them used, they’ve been NIB or NRFB and in good shape – Masquerade was displayed as her shoes were a bit dusty. Grace is the only one I’ve bought absolutely brand new (so far).
I’ve learned that I prefer the RTW dolls (that means Ready to Wear) because I’ll be making clothes for them anyway. I like sewing for these dolls – the scale makes it a little easier to manage details than with Barbie.
The Alexandra Fairchild Ford dolls have slightly different dimensions (plus eyelashes) being about 15.5″ tall. The Tonner dolls have three different body sculpts (SA = straight arm; BA = bendable arm; BW = bendable wrist) but the dimensions of all three are the same. I love the Sydney Chase face sculpt. Grace Fitzpatrick has the RTB101 body, so has more articulation and will be slightly taller than the other Tonner girls. I’m curious to see the other differences in her dimensions. (I already know she needs her own shoes.)
Monster High & Everafter High
Here’s how my Monster High girls would have looked new-in-box, but most of them came from the thrift store and were naked. They pretty much all needed their hair washed, too. (Only EAH Madeline Hatter and MH Lagoona Blue Creeproduction were new when they came to me.)
Alive & Knitting 