Making An Album For
Young
American Girl® Collectors
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An Album For Young Designing clothes that fit the American Girl Collection® Dolls has been special to me because of my granddaughters. I have nine granddaughters altogether, and three of them had American Girl® dolls when I first began to design clothes. Because the girls were so intrigued with the history associated with the American Girl®, I wanted to give them some of our family history also. Before I started designing patterns that fit the American Girl® to sell, I was designing them for my granddaughters. Whenever a new design for an American Girl® dress was conceived, I named the pattern after a relative or other person that had been important in my childhood and wrote a story about that person. My mother and mother-in-law furnished old photographs of our ancestors and copies were Xeroxed for each child. The patterns for the American Girl® dolls were written out, copied and everything was placed in a loose leaf notebook for each of the girls. |
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There was no real format for the stories. The first story for a Scottish Plaid Smocked dress about how their great, great, great grandparents came over from Scotland during the great potato famine was a very short story because no one knows much. There were only four pictures of relatives to go with the story. The next pattern was about bobby socks that are worn rolled down. These were very popular when I was in high school. There was no real story to go with the American Girl® Doll, but rather a series of pictures from my childhood and brief descriptions of them. The next design, Marguerite's Cheerful yellow dress, honored my father's bookkeeper who was always cheerful in the face of much adversity in her life. This story brought out pictures of my father's logging business back in the 1950's and a heartfelt story about how few career opportunities were open to women in that place/time.
If you are at all attracted to this idea, please consider making albums for your children or grandchildren. You can take any pattern that fits the American Girl® doll, use your own colors and materials and name them after someone in your childhood. Gather up some pictures of the person and describe what this person meant to you. You do not need great writing skills, a short description of the picture is enough. Or you could name the dresses after your children and grandchildren and put together pictures of them with their American Girl® dolls. What a treasure for the young American Girl® Collector in your life!
Note: We are not associated with the American Girls Collection® Dolls or the Pleasant Company in any way.
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