Madelon's Fun Finds, The Little Sprouts!

I have a very special place in my heart and home for Cabbage Patch Kids, as you may know I still have and love mine. The realization that Cabbage Patch Kids are not only still around but becoming more popular again makes my heart soar!

Madelon has kindly sent in photos of what the fun Little Sprouts playsets look like and they are cute as can be!

With 120 of then to collect this is a collectors dream. These tiny little dolls are adorable.

Thank you to Madelon for sending a photo of the regular sized Cabbage Patch Kids as well so you can see the size difference!
What a fun find indeed!
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2 Great Patterns For Cabbage Patch Kids From Craft Gossip!

As you may know I love my Cabbage Patch Kids, still have them and still get excited when I see them both at home and in the stores or online. Craft Gossip has a great free pattern for a t-shirt for those of you wanting to get back into or continue sewing for the Cabbage Patch Kids. Click here for the Craft Cossip FREE PATTERN. 

My own Jodie doll looks like this lovely girl and Craft Gossip also has this peasant dress pattern to share FREE as well click here for the Free pattern.

Get Sewing this Saturday!
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Rosie's Perfect Pattern For A Holiday Nighty For Your Cabbage Patch Dolls

Rosie's Doll Clothes Patterns has a perfect pattern for a holiday nighty for the Cabbage Patch Kids! I love all the holiday flannel that you can find this time of year and know you can make lovely holiday PJ's for your treasured Cabbage Patch Doll this holiday with patterns from Rosie's Doll Clothes. This site also has wonderful 18 inch doll patterns with tutorials to go with it, making it a very easy way to sew and love making doll clothing. Click here for Rosie's Pattern Website. 
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Bring Home Some Vintage Cabbage Patch Dolls This Holiday Season

If you have followed this series for a while now I love Cabbage Patch Dolls and Still have mine. Today I am sharing some vintage Cabbage Patch Dolls that need new homes from Etsy today. First up is this lovely doll dressed as a snowman!
From Clutter Buck's Etsy shop in Canada this lovely doll is offered at $59.00 Click here for shop and listing. 

BricaBrack75 has a blond tufted hair doll I think is so sweet! Offered at  $26.75 see more of her by clicking here. 

AandSvintage Etsy Shop has this preemie Cabbage Patch Doll I love so much! Even comes with the second outfit! Click here to see this doll in shop and listing. 

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Cabbage Patch Sunday Free Pattern To Love!

Today I am sharing a pattern I found on a great blog pattern site called Mamma Hooks Pattern Page this is from 2006 but the pattern is exactly what we Cabbage Patch Doll Lovers need in our pattern files. Imagine this done in Reds and Greens for Christmas, Blue and Silver for Hanukkah or even Black and White for New Years! You can find this great pattern by clicking here. Create your own Cabbage Patch Doll Party Dress and do share with us a photo when you are done! 

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Cabbage Patch Sunday Etsy Pattern Fun Finds

Earlier this week I had my nieces and my young BFF Angela over and they had my Cabbage Patch Dolls out and were playing with them. It did my heart good, actually one is still tucked in with a dolly quilt in my reading chair right now.  My young niece PB always has me dressing and undressing her baby and has been asking me for a dolly sweater which I don't have in cabbage patch size so I got to thinking and looking on Etsy and found this pattern to share with you today.
Miss Meggy Designs has a few patterns for all the different sized Cabbage Patch Kids. The one above is for the 11 and 14 inch dolls you can view it by clicking here.

This photo made me quite excited, while I have the original dolls still I do have a few smaller ones and the sweater in the middle is one I would love to make my dolls! Click here for this PDF listing in her etsy shop. 

If you are more into Sewing check out the PDF pattern for PJ's, Dressing Gown, Slippers and Pillow, with quilt, this one is on my wish list for sure! Click here to see why! 
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Cabbage Patch Sunday FUN FIND!

I have stumbled onto an Etsy shop that has me so very excited! This shop has a large selection of toys from my childhood including these minis!
The shop is called Smiling Memories and they have everything this  now much older kid loved growing up, and they are pretty reasonably priced!

In many ways it is hard for me to resist ordering, it is like seeing the Christmas Catalog from Sears all over again!

Also it says it only ships within Canada which makes this Canadian seriously feel the urge to shop!
This shop has some amazing finds from the 70's and 80's do check it out by clicking here. 
Smiling Memories lives up to it's name and I truly was smiling when I stumbled upon this etsy shop!
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Cabbage Patch Sunday...

Have you ever wondered what your dolls might be worth? Or what the most valuable Cabbage Patch Dolls Are?
You might be surprised, if you resisted opening and loving your Cabbage Patch kids and have them still in the box you could be looking at about $3000, amazing right? There is a lovely article you can find her that Madelon sent me that talks more about how and why of the most valuable dolls from the 1980's. Click here for that article. 

Madelon also found a great post about Cabbage Patch kids that I think is a wonderful read. You can find it from The Spruce by clicking here. 

I still have all my dolls and I have my sister in laws dolls here as well. I find I could not part with my dolls even to my own nieces. Do you still have yours? Share your memories with us by commenting below.
Thank you Madelon for these links and for all of you who are joining us here today.

Cabbage Patch Dolls Sunday Spotlight Finally- Sew A Halloween Costume For Your Dolls with Rosie

Today is the last day in our two month Sunday Spotlight on Cabbage Patch Dolls. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have. Today we are spotlighting Rosie Sewing Patterns which offer wonderful Cabbage Patch Doll Patterns and the best part is you get the patterns and videos on how to  sew for your special dolls. Click here for the Witches Costume. 

Rosie also has a pumpkin costume pattern to check out! Click here to view it. 

Click here for the pattern for Ballerina costumes for your Cabbage Patch dolls! 
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Cabbage Patch Doll Sunday - Etsy Looks For Baby and Preemie Dolls

Today we are featuring the smaller Preemie Cabbage Patch Dolls, Starting with this sweet set from mj3260 Etsy shop. This outfit caught  my eye right away and I hope you love it as much as I do. Click here for shop and listing.

Next is for a pattern for this sweet knit set! Click here to learn more about this pattern which is a pdf print out from erosgifts Etsy shop.

This listing is one of my most favorites from this series! Finding these was such a treat! One of the most Iconic things about these dolls are the shoes they come with! These fit the 14 inch dolls and you can find them listed in the scdolly Etsy shop by clicking here.

Cabbage Patch Kids In Time For The Holiday Rush

I remember my mother telling me about how all the moms in our neighborhood lined up before Christmas for the chance to get us Cabbage Patch Kids for Christmas in the 1980's and I still have and love mine! Madelon kindly sent me photos of the New Cabbage Patch kids, on store shelves now, boy have they sure changed but my excitement for them has not.

With their new hair and stylish outfits they are very different from the dolls I have, but they do have their adoption certificates and boy was that a cool thing, I still loved opening mine to see what the dolls names were!

long before the egg opening videos on you tube crazy the excitement kids feel and the wonderment of the wait is what I think of when I think of opening my first Cabbage patch kid, his name was Samuel and I he was my most favorite doll!

The glasses are so cute on these and the open toe shoes!

oh the joy of this playset! tiny Cabbage Patch doll and the doll play items, I would still have so much fun with this one.

I love the soft look of this all vinyl doll you can even take her in the bath!

 These are new and sweet as can be from the Cabbage Patch line, these are the Adoptimals and I love their sweet faces!
Clearly I should not be let loose in the toy section of the store. Thank you Madelon for sharing these wonderful dolls with us today. Thank you too for joining us today, we would love to hear your Cabbage Patch stories so please feel free to share them with us here in the comment section below or email us at karenmowen@gmail.com

Cabbage Patch Dolls Sunday Series- Etsy Outfits For Girl Dolls!

Today's Etsy Spotlight is actually just on one Etsy shop the Dressing Dollies Etsy shop. After I first saw this shop for last weeks spotlight there was so much to love that I am doing this weeks just in this store. You can tell when a shop owner loves what they do as it shows in their work. I never had a bathing suit for my dolls and I think this polka dot one is cute as can be! Find this and the other bathing suits in stock now by clicking here.

This listing for a lavender floral print nightgown is exactly what I wanted and dreamed of for my own Cabbage Patch Dolls.

With the holidays up coming I loved the look of this dress, the bows and the panties are so sweet!
You can view this and so many other listings by clicking here.

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Cabbage Patch Doll Sunday- Etsy Favorites For Boy Dolls

For the last few weeks we have been sharing our love of things you can make for your own Cabbage Patch Kids, and today we shift our focus to things you can buy for your dolls ready made from Etsy!
Starting with this T-shirt for your boy dolls, made by soulyautographed Etsy shop !

I loved this listing from scdollyboutique The fire truck pj's are one of my favorite Etsy listings ever for Cabbage Patch boys! Click here for this shop.

My third choice for today's Etsy spotlight is this Dinosaur Planet set from Dressing Dollies Etsy Shop. Click here for shop and listing.
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Cabbage Patch Doll Sunday - Sew Diapers

One of the things I love most about my Cabbage Patch Dolls was the diapers that they came in, more than 25+ years ago needless to say they did not survive. So years ago I sewed new ones for my dolls.

 Today I wanted to share a great pattern for your Cabbage Patch and other Baby Dolls from Skip To my Lou. org .
This is a great pattern to have on hand especially if you are making a new wardrobe for a loved and treasured doll or if you are making a wardrobe for a rescue doll!
Click here for the pattern from Skip To My Lou.Org and visit the blog by clicking here. 

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Cabbage Patch Doll Sunday- Crochet For Your Newer Dolls!

This Sunday why not crochet a cute hat and cardigan for your Newer Cabbage Patch Dolls like this one from a fun tutorial and free pattern by Deborah of the Art Threads Blog!

I love the pom pom! Click here for the free tutorial and pattern from Art Threads Blog and get started making something fun for your Cabbage Patch Dolls today!

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Cabbage Patch Doll Sunday- Knit a beautiful wardrobe for you Cabbage Patch Kids!

This lovely little doll looks like my own Jody Doll! This pattern can be found on Ravelry for free!

This pattern has a really sweet skirt and pant option, you can get more of an idea about this set by clicking here for Jessica Tromp's Free Knitting Pattern for Cabbage Patch Kids.

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Cabbage Patch Doll Sunday- Sew a very basic outfit for your dolls with this free pattern from GYCT Designs

Today I am sharing a free pattern from GYCT Designs. This free pattern will help you create some very basic items for your vintage 17 inch Cabbage Patch kids...

This free pattern from GYCT Designs is a great place to start if you are wanting to update your dolls wardrobe. Click here for the link to the free pattern. 
I hope you will have fun creating for your own dolls or for a doll you find and rescue at the local thrift store.
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Welcome To Cabbage Patch Doll Sundays...

Today starts a new Sunday Series on Cabbage Patch Dolls. For the next two months we will spotlight these lovely dolls each Sunday...

Here is why, this is me in 1984 with one of my Cabbage Patch Dolls.  I still have them! I had 4 Cabbage Patch dolls. Samuel, Jody, Andrew and Oookooopookoo, my Grandfather wrote stories about Oookoopookoo for my mother first and then me, so when I got her that is what we called her. In the coming weeks I am hoping to share my love of my Cabbage Patch Dolls with all of you and share some wonderful patterns, outfits and accessories for these dolls with all of you.

This series is inspired by the two patterns I purchased for 25 cents each at a yard sale recently. While I have not pulled anything out to sew yet, I have been inspired to share these and the love of these most treasured dolls with all of you.

I still remember that feeling I got when I first got my Samuel doll. My sisters (shown above) and I loved our dolls and we all still have them! This is me top left with Samuel, Oookoopookoo and my sister Bre's doll with red hair. My own red headed doll Jodie had a soother! SO that is how I know that is her doll and not mine.
I hope you will enjoy this series as much as I do in presenting it!
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