Today is Day 3 of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway. You can enter each day to win the prize of the day! Contest rules and how to enter are below.
Today’s Project
On the third day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, my true love gave to me … a Made to Love Vintage Doll from Coats & Clark.
MATERIALS
- Coats and Clark Dual Duty XP All Purpose Thread to match fabrics
- Coats and Clark Dual Duty XP Heavy Thread to match muslin
- E & P Coats Embroidery Floss, black, blue, brown, red, and pink
- Red Heart 4 ply yarn for hair, approximately 16 yards
- Muslin, ¼ yard
- Polyester fiberfill for stuffing
TOOLS
- Water soluble marking pen
- Hand Embroidery Needles
- Embroidery hoop, 6”
- Crayon, light pink
INSTRUCTIONS
All seams allowances are ¼” unless otherwise noted.
- Trace and cut out body pattern pieces. Print templates here.
- Before cutting head and body piece trace facial features to a 6” x 12” piece of muslin with a water soluble marking pen.
- Embroider features using J. & P. Coats Embroidery Floss. See here for illustration. Remove any markings with a damp cloth. Allow to dry. Highlight cheeks with a pink crayon.
- Pin pattern pieces to muslin. For the head and body match facial features to the paper pattern. Pin and cut. Transfer pattern markings on leg as noted.
- Right sides together sew body pieces. Back stitch at the beginning and end of seams. Leave a 2-inch opening on the bottom of body for turning. Leave an opening at the top of arm and leg pieces for turning. Trim corners and clip curved edges before turning.
- Stuff body parts with polyester fiber fill. Use small bits of stuffing at a time. Stuff the body pieces until firm. Be sure to get stuffing into all corners.
- Turn in raw edges on body, arms, and legs. Overcast the edges together with small, close stitches.
- Use Coats and Clark Dual Duty XP Heavy Thread to assemble doll. Attach arms to body with small overcast stitches. Align upper arm with top shoulder edge. Place the arm with thumb facing upward. See here for illustration.
- Sew legs on to body with small overcast stitches. With outside leg markings facing outward place legs flush with hip bottom. See here for illustration.
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Today’s prize is the Dual Duty XP Thread Assortments from Coats & Clark. In order to win today’s 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, all you need to do is:
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What was your favorite toy growing up?
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I had an Easy Bake Oven, and I thought I was the best little cook in the world when I baked a tiny little cake for the family, lol!
I guess it was filled with Love…
My favorite toy was my mother’s sewing bucket. Fabric scraps, thread, buttons, trims to make pillows and cloths for my Barbie and trolls.
My Dressy Bessy Doll.
The full-sized treadle Singer that my Mom helped me salvage from the trash pickup when I was 12.
I really loved playing with my Raggedy Ann and Andy Dolls.
I played with paper dolls i loved them they were a lot of fun .
My mum was a wizard at cutting out Paper Dolls in a strip to fit her mantle piece in the kitchen. She replaced them every Christmas and gave the old ones to me. I was so happy to get them although they were very shabby by then.
Legos! I still love Legos – I wear my Lego watch every day.
My Mom told me I loved playing jacks and pick up stix.
My favorite Christmas gift was a bicycle. It didn’t matter that it was used or that I had to share it with my sister. It was beautiful.
My favorite gift was my orange and pea green sewing machine, that I still have as of today. I was hooked from that moment on…
This doll would be perfect if my daughter would get on the ball and give me a grand daughter! She’s 26 and married, what is she waiting for? Lol
This time is 7hours too fast!
I had a tiny Singer sewing machine. I made doll clothes…they were the best-dressed dolls, ever!
Of course my favorite toy would have to be all my Barbie dolls. I would spend hours playing with them and I still have them!! I also loved Paper Dolls!! Still have some of those also. Thanks for the great giveaway.
Me too. I loved all my Barbies and dressed them all the time. I used to go to all the fabric stores and they would give me leftover scraps to make clothes from. I even dressed them all as the characters from Camelot for a school project. It was so awesome. I still collect Barbies and I’ve retired now so I have plenty of time to sew new clothes for them..LOL
My favorite toys growing up was my barbie dolls !!
A Revlon Doll. 2 of my sisters got one too. Mom sewed a wardrobe for each of them after we were in bed. The clothes were amazing; dresses, skirts, capes, pants, and shirts…..with hand sewn snaps and hook and eye closures. It wasn’t until I learned to sew myself that I could really appreciate the love that went into making all those tiny clothes.
I am 78 years old. My mother and grandmother taught me to sew, knit and crochet when I was 6 years old. My doll was a rag doll made by my mother.
My mother taught me those same great things at the age of six years old so I could help to earn money to pay for Agistment towards pasturage for dad’s poor old cows in drought times. I’m most grateful for that home tuition as at the age of 17 years old I had my own dressmaking business and later became a Designer, Dressmaker and Teacher of Dressmaking without Patterns. My dear mother was the founder of “Dressmaking without Patterns”
I rode my bicycle every day. It gave me such freedom and hours of fun! Thank you for the giveaway.
My favorite toy was my sister’s baby paper dolls. I’m 78 now and am still looking for a copy of those dolls.
My favorite was my cardboard Barbie Dream House. I was always making new clothes and things for my Barbies.
My favorite toy was my Barbie doll. Thanks
My favorite toy was a doll called the Chatty Cathy doll. You pulled a string on the back of her neck, and she would say something. She had several different things to say as well as a laugh and a cry. Thanks!
I had a stuffed toy monkey that was my favorite growing up. Still have him and he shows the wear of being my favorite!
My6 favorite toy was a bicycle a two wheeler, that I enjoyed riding even though it was a bit big for me.
My favorite toy was a large walking doll.
My favorite toy was Cabbage Patch dolls.
My Tiny Tears doll. I still have her!
I had a doll named Mrs. beesley. I remember that as if it was yesterday. I can still see her face. Its been about 50 years ago
arts and crafts kits
my american girl doll, i even saved it and am giving it to my daughter this christmas
I can still remember the awe I felt the Christmas I received my Tiny Thumbelina doll. I was around 6 or 7 and felt like I had received the most precious gift in the world. She was well loved over the years.
I had a doll called Shrinking Violet that I loved until my neighbor broke it by pulling the string too hard so she couldn’t talk to me any more!
Oh, Teresa, I loved my Shrinking Violet, too! I didn’t think anyone else would know who she was. I had mine about fifty years ago.
My favorite toy was my red two-wheeler bike that my parents gave to me for my birthday. I loved that bike so much! I even let my brother ride it!
I had a stuffed dog that I loved.
My grandma made me dresses for my barbie dolls
I really didn’t have a favorite toy but my favorite present was my white “Nancy Sinatra” boots I got one year. I tried to wear them forever, but alas, outgrew them too quickly. I just loved to strut and sing “These boots were made for walkin’.”
i have always enjoyed games, board games and cards-
and I love to give art supplies to all the kids in my life
I don’t remember one outstanding favorite – I recall playing with different toys depending on the season and age. Skipping ropes, a toy scooter, a two-ball game against the wall, swapping from my collection of “scraps”, marbles, riding a bike!
My favorite toy was singer sewing machine. I believe I was 7 or 8. I started sewing doll clothes and haven’t stopped sewing since.
My Toni doll.
was so happy to see someone else had a Toni Doll. I loved mine and allthe miniature accessories like the school satchel with tiny pencil and book. Just loved her and I thought the name was so sophisticated.
My favourite toy was paper dolls until my mom taught me to sew and knit. Then I couldn’t get enough “crafting”.
Jacks
My favorite toy was Jacks, because I could play with my friends.
I loved Chinese Checkers!!
My favorite toy wasn’t really a toy, but I loved to play in my grandma’s button box. Now days my grand kids can play in mine.
I loved my Lincoln logs.
I liked my Barbie dolls.
I had a Tiny Tears doll who could wet her diaper and had her own playpen . I kept her until her rubber skin began disintegrating.
I had a Chatty Cathy doll that I dearly loved.
My Grandma’s buttun tin with generations of buttons!
It doesn’t specify age so 1 of my favorite toys was Lite-Brite (Hasbro).
Flexi- pieces in a canister
My favorite was my Holly Hobby doll.
My favorite toy was my baby doll I named Sally… I loved her so much! We both had fun with my pink cat with the glow-in-the -dark polka dots, too!
I loved my Magnus Chord Organ and kept it for 30 years!
Mine was a blue tea set.
my favorite was a flip doll that was red riding hood, and when turned upside down was the bad wolf! Still waiting to pass it to granddaughter.
My Betsy Wetsy doll . I always liked my story books, too.
My stuffed bears!
My Toni Doll that my Mom and Grandma bought for me
Chinese jacks and Chinese jump rope.
my dolls
I had a Raggedy Ann and Andy which we just loved. I will make the doll
shown today with different color hair to make a “new” Raggedy Ann.
My favorite toy was little horse figurines.
SHMO GAME, was my fave.
I had a wind up toy that played Jack and Jill
My Chatty Cathy doll.
My cabbage Patch was my favorite toy.
A stuffed dog named Cinnamon.
My favorite toys were my Barbies – loved making them little clothes to wear then, and still do for my daughter’s dolls!
I loved my “Ginny” doll- much like Madame Alexander but not so spendy. My mom re-wigged here several times and finally her knees wore out and most of her face paint had worn off………..I don’t know what we did with her after that 🙁
I loved my Mr Potato head
I loved my Glamour Gal ship and my Easy Bake Oven!!
My three sisters and I had a set of building blocks, before Legos, but similar in design/style and we took turns building structures. We had a metal doll house and gas station garage also. I wish I had Legos as my daughter played with Duplo first and then as she grew older, Lego. She built her own doll house. I had dolls but my mother let me cut their hair, so they were eventually tossed. I still have my father’s baby doll that he had as a child. At school we had jacks and jumprope. I love to rollerskate-wore out a pair by the time I was nine-the ball bearings came out and I gave up rollerskating until much later when I bought roller blades as an adult.
My best present was the scraps of material I got one year and used to make doll clothes.
Legos. Wish I thought beyond the directions.
I don’t remember a favorite toy but loved to dress up our kittens in doll clothes.
My favorite toy was my toy Singer Sewing Machine. I loved making Barbie doll outfits with it.
My brothers toy dump truck lol
My favorite toy growing up was my Barbie doll. I loved making clothes for her.
Teddy Bear
My favorite toy was a sewing machine but it was with glue instead a needle
My favorite toy that i remember from my childhood would be my Pebbles doll from the Flintstones tv show. She had red hair in a ponytail on top of her head with a little bone in it and a little leopard dress.
Sure wish I still had it today to share with my granddaughter.
My favorite toy was my cowgirl hat and guns. I was Dale Evans!
I loved to collect a play with my model horses and ponies.
I loved my zippy the monkey. I still have him!
My favorite toy was my walking doll which I got when I was 10 and my sister broke when she was 2. It moved from Michigan to Florida with us and she broke it after we moved here.
I loved my roller skates. There was a big community area where I could skate everyday.
It’s a tie between my mini Singer sewing machine and a little white Teddy bear that played a lullaby when wound-up.
My favorite tooy as I was growing up was a baby doll with blond hair & “Santa’s Elf had put a little curly bun on top of her head and no matter how many times I changed her clothes or cleaned her up, I always took the bun down brushed it carefully and put it back up. She stayed with me everywhere.
I loved my barbie dolls and all of the clothes that I had for them.
My favorite “toy” was my mother’s treadle machine. It was bought for her to learn to sew, but she never did. I kept all the info and became a quilter and a clothing maker. I also loved then and now making AGD clothes. Wished I had one when I was younger!
My most favourite toy as a child was my teddy bear, he is a jointed bear, with leather pads to his paws and glass eyes. He had the most amazing growl when I turned him upside down. He is pretty threadbare in places now and his growl has long gone, but he is still dealy loved and I will never part with him.
My little ponies, the original one from the 80’s/90’s.
I truly loved my bike and since I was in a neighbor hood of mostly boys i became very good at softball and Dad got me my own Louisville Slugger.
I loved to play with my dolls.
My favorite toy was my Barbie Camper. My sister and I spent many hours playing with it.
A Pebbles Flintstone doll.
legos was my fav
Dolls. I loved my baby dolls. No Barbie’s in my day.
My Chatty Cathy!
I loved my handmade cloth doll made by my grandma.
Etch-a-Sketch. I would spend hours creating designs and pictures that needed a good imagination to try to figure out what it was!
This would be a wonderful X-Mas gift for my only grand child!
My favorite toy would have to be a doll razorback cheerleader doll that when you pulled the string she said a cheer. The only way to get her was to open a savings account at a local bank and my dad did that for me the week before Christmas so I could have that doll for Christmas. Of course I didn’t know that at the time all I knew was that i wanted that doll. Santa brought her Christmas morning and I was one happy little girl. My daddy loved me very much and did whatever he needed to make me happy. 🙂
I loved playing with Barbie and cooking in my Easy Bake Oven 🙂
I had a Little Miss Tippy Toes doll. She had a plastic horse that she would ride on across the floor. Still have her and she still works!
Barbie and her friend Ken! What a couple! LOL
Paper dolls! My sister and I played for hours. We had hundreds. Used to play “Wagon Train” all the time. We had so much fun. She has been dead for over 30 years now and I cherish all the memories we made together. Such wonderful times and toys.
My favorite was a Barbie Townhouse, it had an elevator & I thought that was so cool.
I had a doll that I named Emily that was my favorite. I acutally still have her put up somewhere.
a shovel. i loved digging up buried treasure
My favorite toy was the board game Monopoly.
I loved Legos
My Skipper doll
I liked my Easy Bake Oven
My favorite toy was a doll. I kissed her cheeks so much that I kissed the paint off of her!
Dolls, Dolls and more dolls. In 1956, I was 14 and my Mom gave me Terry Lee for xmas. That
was my last doll as a gift. I still have her and many others. I have made cloth dolls along the way. Married 52 years and my husband still indulges me.
Thank you for having such great give-a-ways. Merry Christmas, from Hawaii
It was always a toss up – sew on Mom’s Elna or play with Lego. My brother tried to hord the Lego so I ended up focussed on sewing. Both required imagination and using my hands. Sewing was easier.
I LOVE to sew!
Baby dolls and later Barbie dolls
My favorite toy was a Chatty Cathy doll.
MY FAVORITE TOY GROWING UP WERE THE POLLY POCKET DOLLS AND ALL OF THEIR LITTLE CLOTHING. I STILL HAVE THEM TO THIS DAY! MY DAUGHTER PLAY WITH THEM NOW.
My favorite toy was the Light Bright.
I had this little plastic raggedy Ann & Andy oven-I used to take the peapod thingys off the trees open them up & “cook” the beans in it lol!
My teddy bear named Teddy!
I had a very-beloved stuffed dog named “Bozo” – who even saved my life one night.
I had a sit and spin in my room that I loved! How is it kids don’t get dizzy? I think I’d get sick if I tried it now!
My favorite toy was a robot that walked and his chest panels would open up and he would fire lasers. Strange toy for a girl to want or have,
I loved my Barbies. We built them a huge house out of cardboard, carpet scraps and wallpaper.
My favorite Christmas toy was from when I was very young, it was a black and white teddy bear that looked like a Panda. I still have it, I must have kissed it a lot since it’s paint on it’s mouth has rubbed off. I would really love to win something !
Thanks !
My favorite Christmas toy was a baby – baby doll. I loved my doll so much.
My Tiny Tears doll
My mother was very creative. When I wanted the toy baking set, with all the boxes of cake mix, from the Sears catalog and she couldn’t afford it, she found some cute little baking pans (about a 4″ cookie sheet and a tiny spatula, among others) and made up a stack of mixes for me to use in them. I had such fun! I make a chocolate cake for my visiting Great Aunt and Uncle one day and they enjoyed it. I don’t remember if I had to have help using the oven or not. I was pretty young.
I liked glow worm.
Boy, its been a long time since I’ve been a kid, have to think about it…
I guess I would have to say my hula hoop as my first choice, but the bicycle I had wanted for so long, I finally got when I was 12, and it meant the world to me.
Can I ever use that thread, have an 18 month old great granddaughter to sew for, and another one due any day now!
Coats & Clark my favorite thread that sews up just about everything I make!
Have a very merry Christmas everyone!
It has to be my Barbie dolls and the Easy Bake Oven! I loved them both!!!
One Christmas my mom and aunt made my two sisters , my cousin and myself a doll our size so we could dress them with our clothes. They even had hair to match ours!
My barbies and my grandmother made little suits and hats for them just like Jackie Kennedy wore.
My name is Kathy and talked a lot. Still do, so I got a Chatty Cathy doll, loved her to pieces.
Hey. Today is Wednesday the 10th, it is 9:30. But thus date here says the 11th! Something wrong.
I think one of my favorite toys as a child was a cat with a pouting face which I called Pouty. I still have him and he’s in pretty good shape for how old he is!
My favorite toy was a spirograph.
I loved my ‘Littlle Miss No Name” doll.
My favorite(s) had to be my collection of mutant Barbie’s. My uncle worked at Mattel, and would bring us boxes of toys that didn’t meet the quality standards, so I had tons of Barbies with mis-printed faces, etc.
A standing chalkboard that my Dad made. Me and my younger sister pretended for years that we were school teachers and taught our stuffed animals and dolls several times a week. Note, neither one of us grew up to be school teachers.
My doll was my fav toy.
A teddy bear my grandmother made me. His name was Charlie and he was blue.
My favorite toy was my needlework basket and sewing machine! I loved (and still do!) Knit, crochet, sew, embroider, and quilt. Now I’ve added spinning yarn and weaving. Fabric and string is endlessly fascinating to me.
My favorite toy was my giant Big Bird puppet. I loved it.
I loved my doll house. My Dad made it and it was a replicate of the house I grew up in. It was unique – it was a ranch style and I could have 3 friends over and we could all sit around it and play together. Or it could be the farm house to my brother’s barn and we could play farm together.
I had a toy oven that would not pass any of today’s child safety tests, it heated up and I could make hot chocolate and melted cheese and crackers. Loved it
One of my favorite toys growing up was my Baby Alive! I really loved that doll! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
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My pogo stick!! I could stay on longer than anyone on my block.
My favorite was art or craft kits. Painting, sewing, anything like that and I was happy.
My doll named Becky- I still have her.
Barbies were always my favorite. I also loved paper dolls.
I loved playing with Barbie dolls and polly pockets.
paper dolls with real hair
I had two favourites:
One was Dawn and her Friends, they were 6″ high and had a beauty parlour, a revolving runway, wonderful gowns…lots of fun This was a Mattel product
My second favourite was Lego and Meccano I loved them both the same way and still build with Lego.
I enjoy the opportunity to enter the Giveaways, thank you for thinking of us.
A plush birdie.
Barbies and pogs.I loved my pogs.
i was a huge fan of my barbie. i loved braiding their hair.
My barbie doll
Mine was my Chatty Kathy doll back in the 60s.
Books…….I have always loved to read, remember searching for and collecting the entire Trixie Belden series.
I loved blocks! Building something is my greatest fun, whether with wood or with fabric and thread!
My favorite toy when I was a child was my “Baby Catch a Ball” doll.
Dolls! I loved any and all dolls. I even had a hand made “cabagge patch” doll and made my first doll when I was 12 years old. It was a Maggie, the Simpsons, doll. 🙂
I always got a cash register and a Dr. bag full of instruments. Always couldn’t wait to open them each year. Still have 2 of the cash registers.
Does anyone remember Cuddle Wits? They were these kind of smooshy faced teddy bear toys. It was a special toy for me – I actually still have it. When my dad started dating my mom (not biological), the first gift she ever gave me was Joshua the Cuddle Wit. I was maybe 4 at the time, and I’ve kept that doll for 32 years 🙂
Family poor but mum managed to get me a doll which she dressed. Had a china type head but one leg was missing.I always kept her legs covered so no one would know. Lost her (the doll) during an Air raid.
I never got really attached to any toy after that.
I amazed at the selection of toys now available.
KMcG
POP UP PINBALL
My grandfather’s little red wagon was my favorite toy. I still have it and my girls fight over who will get it when I croak.
My favourite toy as a child was my grandmother’s button tin. We used to sit and sort those buttons every Sunday when we went to see her, each of us choosing our favourite colour and sorting through to make sure that none were missed, squabbling over who would take temporary possession of the gilt buttons that week . They made a good substitute for jacks with a ball of elastic bands in place of a proper ball. We also used them in place of the counters that had been lost from the various board games we had, and as replacements for the houses/hotels in our battered Monopoly set. *sighs* I miss that tin of buttons
I loved my etch a sketch.
My cabbage patch doll
My favorite toy was books: Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins, anything and everything with pages between two covers! Other than books, I’d have to say my two-wheel bike – I grew up in the days when you could ride your bike safely, and head to the park to meet up with your friends for the day without worries.
I loved playing with Legos.
My favorite toy growing up was a small white stuffed kitty that was actually my brothers!
mine was a Shirley Temple doll….( I am old , lol )
mijn favoriete pop is een Cindy pop nu heet het een barbypop en zo als mijn dochters vaak zeggen ik hou er van met vriendelijke groet lenie
My Barbie doll was my favorite toy growing up.
My favorite toys were my baby dolls.
Bozo Buckets.
Transistor radio that my grandmother got me one year for Christmas!
I loved slinky
Models of planes and ships.
Raggedy Ann and Andy Dolls
A Tommy Gun was my favorite toy.
I loved playing with my Barbies.
I loved playing with my Shop and Sheryl Doll and my Chrissy doll. My favorite tool was a small sewing machine that I tried to make doll clothes with, I wasn’t very good..lol
I just posted a comment and it shows it is 3:06 a.m. and it is actually 9:06 p.m. EST.
That’s not hard to remember at all lol. My absolute favorite was a game called Senso. I think it was also called Simon. Still love playing this game to this day….the only memory versions lol.
My Barbie Doll
not necessarily a toy, but my mothers sewing machine. it fascinated me and I loved making things on it.
My favorite toy was a Golly Wog that my mum made for me from the piece of her black fur coat when she shortened it. His face was an oval piece of white flannelette with his features: eyes, nose and mouth drawn on it with black lead pencil. He certainly lived for a long time…haha
I love this patterns. I have four little granddaughters who would love her. My favorite toy growing up. A bike I had to share with two older brothers. Seven kids in family, had to learn to share. I am seventy years old and new to this sewing business. Thank you for sharing.
My favorite toy, a bike I had to share with two older brothers. Love this doll. Plan on making for four d
Grandaughters. Thank you for sharing.
My favorite toy was a doll house my Dad made my sister and I when I was in grade 3
A soft doll my mother made me when I was 5!
My twin sister and I had matching dolls we loved to play with. Our mom made clothes for them.
By far, my Barbie and Ken dolls. Even dressed them for school and took them with me to class everyday. So much fun!
My favorite toy was my bike
I loved my troll dolls. I made little clothes for them.
For my 8th Christmas my parents gave me a doll. Her name was Honeymoon and she was a space doll. She came with a bubble helmet and rainbow colored clothing. 45 years later, I still have the doll but do not have the accessories to go with her.
My favorite toy growing up was my BABY’S HUNGRY doll. I played with her so much that I just wore her out.