Y’all, I had so much ambition this summer. We took a glorious road trip as a family, and I packed up soooooo much yarn to make soooooo many dolls. I had plans to make forty-two. FORTY-TWO!! Well, I may have made all the shoes and tutus for them, but only…
Wow, sixty dolls. I have now made sixty dancers – many different hairstyles, a variety of skin tones, unique limbs, culturally expansive… SIXTY DOLLS! I initially started this project because, as a refugee foster mom, I noticed how easily we could find pale-skinned dolls at stores, but not many that…
I had the weirdest shopping list for a while: I was on a quest for Jesus-Colored-Yarn. Each store I stopped into over several weeks, I would peruse their craft aisle, or several yarn aisles, all in the name of Baby Jesus’ sweetly colored skin. I can’t be the only one…
Wow. I was not expecting such a big response to my first round of dolls. My Etsy shop actually crashed when I launched my first twenty-one dolls because so many people tried to get dolls when they went live! Thank you for your encouragement with this project, to the many…
For my über nerdy crochet friends out there, here are all the details of my hella cool dancers I’ve been working on. Below I share the types of yarns I used, other materials, and then at the bottom of this post you’ll find links to each one of the dancer’s…
Our very first foster child loved to play with baby dolls. And as I watched them playing with the pale-skinned, blue-eyed baby doll that we had on hand, I thought to myself, “Whoa, that doll looks nothing like them.” So I went on a quest: to find a baby doll…
With the release of my new crochet dancer dolls, I wanted to ensure they had a protective bag to keep them safe while shipping, but also give them that certain feeling of THIS DOLL IS SPECIAL. So I whipped up these cloth drawstring bags! Obviously, you can use them to…
I am learning to mute my voice so as to amplify much needed voices in our communities. This is Maggie H-G, owner of Tugboat Yarning, a white woman living in West Michigan, writing to make sure you know that I stand with BIPOC and POC, not just in the times…
Easter hurt this year. At least it did for me. Maybe it was because life is feeling a little too apocalyptic in the times of Covid-19. Maybe it was because Brad was sleeping in to recover from nightshift work he has added to his schedule for the hospital where he…
As a mother of three young children, jigsaw puzzles are one of my top picks for toys I want to set on fire in frustration. Too often have multiple boxes been scattered across the carpet by little hands, only for it to become mom’s job to coordinate the clean up and…