Candace Austin

Favorite DIY project

My favorite DIY project that I make are cloth dolls. Even more specific than that are the Raggedy Ann dolls I make. I love cloth dolls because they remind me of an era long ago. My heart longs for the days when toys were simple and well made, not mass manufactured in a foreign country and end up breaking after a couple uses. Although, those days are long gone, making handmade items is a way for me to get back to those ‘good old days’. The days where little girls in pinafores and pigtails would have a favorite dolly they took everywhere, and they would sit at mother's knee learning the basics of sewing while making new clothes for their little cloth playmates.