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Enter To Win! An original Thimbles and Acorns outfit designed to fit 18-inch American Girl® dolls!
This week we're changing things up a bit! Instead of showing you one look two ways we're highlighting one variation from the "A Piece Of History" pattern designed to fit 18-inch dolls! Be sure to use the entry form below to be entered into the giveaway to t!his beautiful custom 15th-century outfit! (*Note - dolls and props are not included in the giveaway.)
The giveaway includes:
- The 15th Century Early Renaissance Dress: This beautiful custom outfit was made as a prototype piece for the "A Piece Of History" pattern. It features a two-layered design, long sleeves layered under elbow-length puff sleeves and a long flowing length. It has an empire waistline and is accented beautifully with a gold rope waist tie!
Make It Today: Like the two looks that we've created and want to make your own? Click the images below to check out the patterns available.
Vote Now & Enter To Win: You enter through the entry form that is embedded on this page and appears just below this paragraph, if you don't see it, be sure to visit the page from your desktop or an alternate browser such as Google Chrome. It may not appear on all mobile devices. The complete rules and entry details appear on the entry form. This is not a comment contest - in other words, leaving a comment on the bottom of this page is not an official entry method. The only required entry method is to vote in the poll to help us decide which look is best. One person will receive the outfit. You can enter once, or gain multiple entries by completing the other entry methods and increase your chances of winning. Please review all Terms and Conditions on the giveaway page before entering. While we wish we could run this contest everywhere, for legal reasons it is only open to eligible residents of the U.S. and Canada, not including Rhode Island. This contest is exclusively endorsed by Liberty Jane Clothing and Pixie Faire. Not endorsed by or affiliated with American Girl®.
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Visit the Thimbles and Acorns pattern collection today!
Get to know Shari Fuller... Shari has two pattern collections on Pixie Faire, Thimbles and Acorns, her original brand - and after years of collaborating with designer Eve Coleman on the Keepers Dolly Duds Designs brand, Shari is now the owner of that brand too. Each brand brings a unique look to historical designs in a beautifully detailed way.
More About Shari (in her own words): My grandma gave me my first sewing lesson when I was about eight years old. I had been fascinated with her sewing for as long as I could remember and was so excited when she gave me a doll pattern and sent me to her sewing closet to pick out just the right fabric for my first project. Sewing was a way for me to connect with my grandma, and although she may not have realized it at the time, this gift she gave me helped me become a better student. History became more exciting as I became captivated by the dynamic fashions through the ages. This is what Thimbles and Acorns is all about; building relationships and encouraging learning. In November of 2011, I wrote my first pattern. Eve was the first one to take me up on the offer to test it. We quickly struck up a friendship and before long we were collaborating in our pattern making journey. Working with Eve these past seven years has been a privilege and a delight and I am honored to be able to bring Keepers Dolly Duds Designs to Pixie Faire!
Inquiring Minds Want To Know...
Q: What's your favorite food?
Shari: Just about every day I like to have a Granny Smith Apple with peanut butter and chocolate chips... It's the ultimate one-dish meal. The peanut butter and apple make a great healthy lunch (it's homemade peanut butter by the way) and the chocolate chips are a built in dessert. My absolute favorite food is homemade pizza... because it is pure romance. My husband and I have been making it every Friday since we started dating... 34 years ago! It's become a Fuller Family tradition.
Q: What's your favorite tv show or movie?
Shari: Return to Me. My husband and I tend to sing through the whole movie because it has great background music and the story brings out the romance.
Q: Coffee or Tea??
Shari: Water... I drink a lot of water. Hot water in my favorite mug in the winter helps keep me warm and cold water in my favorite water bottle keeps me refreshed in the summer.
Q: Where's your favorite place to shop?
Shari: Walmart, it's convenient (because I'm not particularly fond of shopping) AND my daughter works there so most everyone there knows me as "Jackie's Mom"... and treat me like a celebrity.
Q: What inspired your brand name?
Shari: Thimbles and Acorns was inspired by my daughter who became infatuated with the story of Peter Pan when she was three years old. The thimble and acorn were the "kisses" that Peter and Wendy exchanged.
Q: What is your dream vacation?
Shari: A tour of Israel and Egypt.
We'd love to hear from you. Leave a comment and tell us what period of fashion history you love best! And be sure to thank Shari and the Pixie Faire team for giving away this beautiful outfit!
Thanks, everyone!
The Pixie Faire Team
140 Comments
Love this Thimbles and Acorns pattern. I’ve made the B.C, 20’s and Edwardian versions. I plan to make one or two adjustments to the short gown version for My daughter’s Josephine doll. Beautiful pattern, great designs…thanks!
Real nice and I love this doll in the 15th Century Renaissance outfit! She is a very pretty doll!! This outfit looks very simple to make and very quick to make!! Thank you Thimbles and Acorns and Pixie Faire for these very nice giveaways!!
This is a very lovely Renaissance dress and does not look difficult to make. Thank you for this design!
1910-1920 is my favorite time…the decade starts out elegant and ends up practical…skirts went up in the fall of 1915 and never really went back. Hard to get patterns for this time period.
BTW I also LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Thimbles & Acorn patterns and own many of them.