Today I thought of making a sewing basket for my mom's personalized '50s My Twinn doll. I wrote a list of all of the things I was going to put in it (most of them, we already have):

* A miniature basket (I was going to line it with retro fabric)
* Mini thread on wooden spools
* Buttons
* Miniature scissors
* Pincushion
* Tape measure
* Fabric s c r a p s

I told her about my idea, and she said: "I don't think I used to hand sew when I was young" (she always wants miniatures to be things she really had/did). "How about a knitting basket? I used to knit Granny Squares as a Girl Scout."

So now I'm planning on taking the miniature basket I have, lining it, and filling it with knitting supplies, like:

* Little balls of yarn
* Knitting needles (made by cutting real ones in half (for the 1/2 scale of My Twinn) and sharpening the ends in a pencil sharpener). For an American Girl, cut 2/3 off, keeping 1/3 of the end with the knob on it.
* Miniature scissors

I wanted to pass along this idea, because it might be fun for other dolls to get a sewing or knitting basket for Christmas! [img]biggrin.gif[/img] (Just leave out the scissors for little girls or dolls who like to run with scissors! [img]wink.gif[/img] )

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ October 30, 2005 11:15 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>