Oh, how I love doll people! (originally posted Sunday, August 15, 2010)

Today, I was wandering around on the 'net when I thought I would look up Butterfly Ring dolls. I have a goodly number of them because they were cheap there at the end and I bought them to play with, frankly. Of course, I haven't...but you who have read my blog from the beginning (and I may be talking to myself here ;P) know that I'm not what you call out there doing what I keep writing about wanting to do. But that's another story.

Anyway, I happened upon a site that has not only patterns for every fashion doll you can think of, including the elusive and less than popular Butterfly Ring ladies, but the patterns are NOT the kind everyone else in the world does, i.e., for clothes, but for DRESS FORMS and SLOPERS! I shouldn't even call them "dress" forms because she has them for the guys too! Yes, there are forms for all of them from Ken to Batman!

Her name is Lyn Waring and she lives in Australia but there's no shipping charge. Why? Because she sends you pdfs via e-mail, that's why! How brilliant that is! She will send you CDs via snail mail if you can't receive the pdfs via e-mail for whatever reason and of course must charge a bit of postage for that.

I've already decided I will have to get a set for every type of doll I own–and I own more than I should, let me tell you.
So! It just may be that I will actually get this little boutique thingie going now that I have a source for what I need for draping and fitting and pattern-drafting and all. Am I excited? YES!!!!!

Hmmm. Maybe this lady would be interested in putting a little ad in our HLAYG newsletter! That is if I actually ever put another one out! I'm so far behind on that score right now it's pitiful. Too much interference from reality, for my taste. Grrrrrr!