system: You are Marilee Miller, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Crafting message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Beverly Cohen about "Dolls                                   18:04:5903/29/97".

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BC>  but nothing beats a doll that doesn't look like a doll and has its own
BC>  personality.  Please don't let those people sway you.  I can just
BC>  what mine's going to look like when it's finished.  Probably the
BC>  they made about yours are going to be kind compared to what they would
BC>  about mine. :-)
BC>   The rest are only heads.  About 15 of them, various
MM> sizes and depictions, including a gawky teen, a graying lady with
MM> narrow face, etc.)  (I haven't any interest in making them clothes,
MM> since I've a whole drawer of sewing that's waiting for ME and I'd
MM> rather do computering instead!)
BC> I hear that.  I've been at my computer for 2 days now resampling scans
BC> the items that I am preparing to add to my website.  It's a long process
BC> that can take hours and hours and hours and aching neck hours. :-)  But
BC> I love it.  I can't imagine life without my computer. :-)
MM> Well, on your prompting, I cut out and stiched up a couple of flat (2
MM> piece) gingham bodies this morning. The whole body, (minus head) is
MM> about 3" high including legs-feet to neck.  They aren't stuffed yet.
MM> They will tie at the neck to a piece of dowel, and that will slide
MM> into the thimble. (I hope it goes that simply!)  Ideally, they ought
BC> to
MM> have a base, and a wire up through the leg, sort of a thimble holder
MM> for the thimble.  Or else the thimble will have to be glued on to the
MM> dowel and not be a thimble.  Otherwise, they would be beheaded
BC> whenever
MM> they were touched or handled.
BC>  Ooooh, that wouldn't be so good.  I hope you get that worked out.  They
BC>  sound really cute.  I'd love to see one when they are done.  Could you
BC>  photo and send me one?
MM> Beverly, this crafting business is for the birds! Only a bird-brain
MM> like me (and maybe most of the others on this crazy echo?) would spend
MM> a whole morning sewing 2 tiny bods for 2 tiny dolls, when the thimbles
MM> themselves would probably sell for as much solo as with the doll
MM> additions!  Gingham sort of puts them in the class of "country crafts"
MM> instead of "exquisitely elegant".  But I do not intend to make a 3"
MM> Victoriana doodaddery and spend a whole week on teeninsy clothing when
MM> I spent only 20 minutes sculpting one "character" (caricature?) head!
MM> I do have some outingflannel, though, and that might make good
MM> "sleepers", instead of daytime jumpsuits.
BC>  Hey, who said crafters were sane anyway? :-)
MM> Happy dollmaking.  Marilee
BC>  Ditto.
BC>  Beverly
BC>  bcohen@goldinc.com
BC>  http://www.goldinc.com/~bcohen/bcohen.html
BC> ... So many projects, so little time...
BC> ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR]
BC> --- Maximus/2 3.01
BC>  * Origin: The Land of the Lost  Lakeshore Ms (1:3604/15)
BC> 382/92

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