* our 'fake' Cabbage Patch kids (which were actually way cooler than the "real" ones) - She bought the heads and "skin" and patterns at the store and was able to make very cool dolls.
Hers had nice hands and feet where you could really see the fingers and toes and they looked much better than the Cabbage Patch Kids, who had little balls of stuffing with tiny toes sewed on the top. I or Kari will upload a picture.
She also made a set of outfits for us (pictures to be uploaded later), cat costumes for Kati and Kari, and my costume for my role as "Donkey 1" in the third grade Christmas play - "Wee Three Kings".
* She knitted a lot as well - I still have a pair of slippers that she knitted, and now I also have a pair of slippers that Kati knitted in almost the same way, which is really cool.
Kari remembers:
SEWING. A big part of my Mom Mythos is how she made clothes for us... and the cat costumes for me and Kati (I wish we still had those!), and of course THE DOLLS SHE MADE FOR US. You were already a little to old for dolls when she made them, but my doll is one of my most prized possessions. I love Mary McCatharie!
Kati adds:
I would like to second the sewing, plus her sewing produced, at least for me, the most comforting artifacts from her life. I also imagined that she liked to knit, since she knitted us all slippers and mittens and things. I think that it mattered to her a great deal that her children looked like someone loved them.
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