A while back, I was on a streak about dolls — fun mannequins and sweet-as-pie Baby Buka cloth dolls.

I’ve finally been able to connect with the owner of the site Going Sew Crazy for the last doll idea I wanted to share. (Don’t you just love the name of her site?  It is ‘sew’ clever!)

She has given me permission to share this photo of her sweet, sweet clothespin dolls and let you know about her dolls.

She has written a great little ‘tute’ (short for tutorial — a term I just recently learned) with pictures.  It is so easy to follow and understand.  This is something that even I in all of my un-craftiness glory could do. I think.

What is so appealing are their little dresses.  Darling fabric!  I think that these dresses would be an absolute cinch to make.

In the main picture of this tutorial, she shows another type of doll to make — using empty spools of thread.  She doesn’t have any directions but I think that you could easily make these just by looking at the picture.  Cute, huh?

Now lest you think that I’m favoring only granddaughters, I think with a little bit of ingenuity and creativity grandmothers can take this idea and extend it to appeal to grandsons. Here are some of my ideas for ‘masculine’ types of dolls:

• cowboys
• basketball players
• doctors
• astronauts
• SWAT teams or military men
• dirt bike racers
• aliens
• robots
• animals (pigs, cows, goats)

Do any of you have ideas of other manly type dolls to make?

Just take a little bit of supplies, some paint, and some fabric and you can have a little ‘friend’ for your grandchild to play with.  If I were a grandchild that lived far away from grandma, I think it would be great fun to get a package in the mail with a flock of these play-full (meaning as in full of play for grandchildren) dolls.