Years back you could find several free patterns online to crochet cute little dresses and outfits for the G1 ponies. I used to have copies of them saved to my computer, but they've disappeared and of course Google was no help in finding them again.



So I was wondering if anyone here still had copies of any of those crochet patterns? Or any new ones? I'm in the mood to crochet little outfits, but am not so good at free handing it.



Edit: Sorry, wrong section. Haven't been a regular poster in awhile and I didn't see that an Art's & Crafts area had been added until after I posted. 

Thanks, I may have to resort to posting pictures at some point. Was mostly just presorting them and trying to look up who some of them might be for my outdated checklists.

Way to many keys! Apartment: Security door key, Top lock key, Regular door key, (which is fun when your arms are full of grocery bags. ) Back door key, Car key, Storage key, Laundry chute key, Mail box key.

I ended up having color coded keys made, so I just need to look for the right color and pattern per lock instead of fumbling with multiple silver keys.

Can anyone tell me which generic (cheap) brand of doll is the closest in size to the American Girl dolls? Clothes, shoes, and accessories fit wise?

My little niece who lives several states away got an American Girl doll for Christmas, but not much in the way of clothes or accessories. So I thought it would be nice for her birthday next month to sew/crochet a bunch of hand made clothes and stuff for her doll. I even went out and bought a couple of American Girl doll patterns. I was all set to start sewing when it hit me... I don't have an American girl doll to model the clothes on.  I really don't want to spend $100+ dollars on a doll that's just going to be a sewing dummy. So I figured since quality doesn't matter I'd pick up one of the generic look alike dolls, problem is I've never seen an American girl doll in real life... any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Well I collect everything MLP from all Gens, My favorite will always be G1's! They are the ones I grew up playing with, and the ones that lead me to start collecting as an adult. It was well trying to look up their real names online that I stumbled unto the online MLP community way back when.
 
G1 - Oh happy, happy childhood memories! 
G2 - What happened to MLPs??? between my being to "old" for ponies and rediscovering them as an adult? OH well more to collect. 
G3 - Yeah MLPs are back in stores!! their not as cute as the originals, but yeah new ponies to collect!!! 
G3.5 - OK what where they thinking? they look like bigheaded Brat clone ponies... 
G4 - Mouse ponies Really??? 
G4D (dolls) -       (they really aren't that bad, kind of cute I guess, It's just the selling out principle of it that I object to)
G5 - If they keep getting smaller were probably going to need magnifying glasses just to see them...  Look its MLP ants! ...

A return of the sea ponies would be awesome! I really miss the holiday ponies as well, and I have always thought a set of season themed ponies would be cool. Like a green baby pony for spring, yellow Pegasus pony for summer, earth pony for fall and a white unicorn for winter.    State and/or country themed ponies.

If Hasbro really wants to cash in on the popularity of Monster High Dolls, Instead of pony like dolls, what about monster themed ponies? A white or pink pony with black and purple mane/tail and little vampire fangs for example. 

there is just so many ideas they could use.   

I understand the reasoning behind the thought that they did it to try and compete with Mattel's doll lines, but the reasoning is backwards, why try to compete with a bunch of doll toy lines that are a dime a dozen when you already have a unique niche in the toy department!?! there is virtually no competition in the fantasy horse/pony area. If they want to be more competitive in the toy market they need to go back to their roots and start releasing more ponies in different styles and characters. G1's and early G3 where insanely popular because of the variety they offered, a variety that encouraged collecting.

I'm not anti doll and I do think they are an interesting idea I just think there is so much more they could have done instead. The fact that once again its the same couple of characters just as dolls, its just one more step away from what MLP was originally supposed to be. It would be different if the Equestria dolls where in addition to a great line up of MLPs, but that just doesn't seem to be happening at least not by me every time I go to the toy isle its the same couple of MLPs on the self getting less and less space all the time and what little space that is left for MLP is now dominated by these dolls. A trend that I'm afraid will continue and get worse. That's where my problem with the dolls come in. As a neat side toy to the MLPs I could of loved them and appreciate them for their uniqueness like Dream Beauties or sea ponies, but they look to be trying to bump MLPs out of the picture.

That is really gross!! glad I have a top loader, although you can also get a similar problem with top loaders getting an odor after awhile. If you look in the cleaning isle at most stores usually near the dishwasher detergent, they sell washing machine cleaner tablets. Since I started using those once a moth or so I haven't had problems with the washer smelling. Also another thing I didn't know until someone pointed it out to me, is that most washers have a lint filter that needs to be cleaned. I had my machine for over a year before I found that out... It wasn't pretty when I went to clean it. O.o