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April Spotlight: Designs by Jude Insider with Tamara Casey
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Celebrating 65 Years of Barbie: A Tribute to an ...

As we celebrate the 65th birthday of Barbie, we're not just honoring a doll but an enduring icon that has inspired generations, transcended cultural boundaries, and evolved to mirror the diverse beauty of our world. From her debut in 1959 to her current status as a symbol of empowerment and style, Barbie's journey encompasses fun facts, fascinating milestones, and a deep impact on fashion and dreams alike. Here are highlights from each year of her legacy that showcase her significance and evolution.

Celebrating 65 Years of Barbie: A Tribute to an Icon
Designs by Jude
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Delicious Designs: Celebrating the 'Baker's ...
Delicious Designs: Celebrating the 'Baker's Dozen' Pattern and the Sweet Style of the 1950s
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In This Season of Light, You're Not Alone 🕯️

This time of year, while often filled with joy and celebration, isn't always sparkly for everyone. If you find yourself navigating through grief, loss, or a swirl of complicated emotions, please know that you're not alone.

In This Season of Light, You're Not Alone 🕯️
Designs by Jude, Club Grace
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Groove into the Past: Celebrating 1970s ...

This month, we're teaming up with the incredibly talented Tamara Casey of Designs by Jude to bring you a unique exploration of 1970s fashion.

Groove into the Past: Celebrating 1970s Fashion with Club Grace and Designs by Jude

Designs by Jude

Designs by Jude November Insider Blog

Tamara Casey of Designs by Jude is a sponsor of Virtual Doll Convention’s Club Grace which is a monthly doll club complete with a clothing delivery subscription, and a monthly digital component that features a fantastic new pattern by Tamara. It has been a wonderful year full of FASHION, thanks to many contributors, and especially for our sewers, Tamara Casey. This month’s pattern from Tamara Casey for Club Grace is Fashion Savvy shown on the right. The pattern features a fashionable pantsuit with full bishop sleeves and French cuffs.

Tamara has been making fabulous videos for YouTube - these sewing tutorials can help you tremendously! Don’t miss the video below for the Fashion Savvy pattern.

Here is what Club Grace Member, Marie Scopel, had to say about the pattern, plus check out her version - so much fun! “Fashion Savy” has got to be one of the best club Grace patterns yet! There’s just something so classic about this jumpsuit. I could’ve seen wearing it in 60s, 70s, 80s or even today! It lends itself to being all about the accessories. And it even came with a purse pattern.”

Club Grace member, Gale Torres, did a spectacular job with her pattern - isn’t the green fabric lush for the Holidays?

Congratulations are in order for Tamara Casey! She reached a goal of over 1,000 subscribers on her YouTube Channel. Consistent, quality content is what she has been striving for this year and she is doing AWESOME. Congratulations, Tamara! Keep climbing!

NEW PRODUCT SHOWCASE

Opulent - A doll clothes sewing pattern designed to fit 12" Poppy Parker, Opulent. The pattern features a floor-length Victorian-inspired gown with 3/4 sleeves and a fully lined overskirt, underskirt with ruffle and tulle petticoat. The pattern features a snap-back closure. This design is also available for Ellowyne, Deja Vu, and other dolls.

SEWING FOR BARBIE!

See how easy sewing for Barbie is in this doll clothes sewing tutorial. The video shows step by step how to sew a 1950's retro-style prom dress for Silkstone Barbie. The pattern used for the demonstration is Prom Date.

NEW MACHINE

We love a good unboxing video and Tamara has an exciting one - a new sewing machine - a Pfaff Ambition 620 sewing machine. This provides a quick overview of the machine’s main features, included accessories and sewing feet. How exciting, congratulations!

HELPFUL PRODUCT REVIEW

Reviews of products are extremely helpful for all of us - In this product review video, Tamara shows you her experience with Cordless Electric Scissors from opening the box through testing them on a variety of materials. The scissors turned out to be very useful and effective for easily cutting paper, fabric, corrugated, and plastic. There is a code for 15% off in the video.

Tamara has it ‘going on!’ You do not want to miss any of her upcoming projects, products, and updates. Be sure to follow her on Facebook for weekly inspiration. We can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

This blog is sponsored content for Designs By Jude in Collaboration with the Virtual Doll Convention.

Designs by Jude October Insider Blog

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Tamara Casey of Designs by Jude is a sponsor of Virtual Doll Convention’s Club Grace which is a monthly doll club complete with a clothing delivery subscription, and a monthly digital component that features a fantastic new pattern by Tamara. It has been a wonderful year full of FASHION, thanks to many contributors, and especially for our sewers, Tamara Casey. This month’s pattern from Tamara Casey for Club Grace is Travel Chic. In the graphic above, you can see the different creations of Travel Chic by Club Grace Members.

Tamara has been making fabulous videos for YouTube - these sewing tutorials can help you tremendously!

Tamara is VERY close to her 1.000 subscribers. Once she gets there, she can control the commercials on her channel - so let’s get her there!

The members of Club Grace often share their creations from Tamara’s Pattern. One of our lovely creators is Suzanne McDonough. How utterly CHIC!

Our next look is GORGEOUS in the Travel Chic pattern, sewn by Pam Walker. The accessories make this straight out of Vogue!

Many of the Club Grace members put their own spin on this pattern - you can dress up any of Tamara’s creations in a million ways depending on the fabrics.

VDC Member Pam Walker, created the Hallows Eve Night Robe - snag the pattern on Tamara’s website for several sizes of dolls. FUN FACT - Pam used a shirt that she found at a thrift store for this dress. GORGEOUS!

Have you been following Tamara’s Halloween Challenge? Check out her results in this video - gotta love some spooky fabric, and that crown is beautiful!

Be sure to check Tamara’s Sale on her website - she switches it up often, and right now, the Hallowes Eve Robe Pattern is on sale.

Here are a couple more of our favorite sewing tutorial videos since our last Insider Update. Make sure to subscribe to her channel so we can get her to her first 1k subscribers. Go Tamara, go!

Tamara has it ‘going on!’ You do not want to miss any of her upcoming projects, products, and updates. Be sure to follow her on Facebook for weekly inspiration. We can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

This blog is sponsored content for Designs By Jude in Collaboration with the Virtual Doll Convention.

Designs by Jude September Insider Blog

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Tamara Casey of Designs by Jude is a sponsor of Virtual Doll Convention’s Club Grace which is a monthly doll club complete with a clothing delivery subscription, and a monthly digital component that features a fantastic new pattern by Tamara. It has been a wonderful year full of FASHION, thanks to many contributors, and especially for our sewers, Tamara Casey. This month’s pattern from Tamara Casey for Club Grace is Autumn Chill. Autumn Chill is a sewing pattern perfect for fall that features a close-fitting and flared fully lined coat with princess seams, slit pockets in the front side panels, and a wide collar for the 16.5" RTB101 body dolls.

Tamara has been making fabulous videos for YouTube - these sewing tutorials can help you tremendously! In the last thirty days, she has uploaded nine tutorials. Way to go, Tamara!

The members of Club Grace often share their creations from Tamara’s Pattern. One of our lovely creators is Gale Torres, she did a great job with the Autumn Chill Pattern, didn’t she?

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Here’s what another member, Pam Walker, said about the Weekender Pattern: “I made another outfit for Dee and the other girls from Tamara's "Weekender" pattern. I love this one..I think it looks so chic. I added a shawl for the chilly evenings. I love the "Weekender" pattern. I love the fit, the look, and everything about it. Best of all, it is easy and quick to make.”

For our Outlander fans, the Jamie shirt and kilt are must-haves for your male doll wardrobe. These doll clothes sewing tutorials show you step by step how to sew an Outlander-inspired 17th-century doll kilt and shirt. The pattern used in the sewing tutorial is called Scottish Jamie. It is currently available for the 17" Matt O'Neill dolls and will soon be released for the 19" Tonner male dolls. There are links to Tamara’s favorite supplies in the YouTube video descriptions.

For our shoppers out there, bookmark Tamara’s eBay account she lists ready-to-wear clothing from time to time, snag one if you are lucky!

It’s hard to believe that Halloween is coming up. Tamara is taking place in the modes4u’s Halloween Sewing Challenge. For the #modes4uhalloweenchallenge, each sewist will receive a surprise mystery box of Halloween themed fabric from modes4u.com and put their creativity to the test to come up with a fun project to share with the sewing community. Learn more and snag some coupon codes in this video!

Here are a couple more of our favorite sewing tutorial videos since our last Insider Update.

Tamara has it ‘going on!’ You do not want to miss any of her upcoming projects, products, and updates. Be sure to follow her on Facebook for weekly inspiration. We can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

This blog is sponsored content for Designs By Jude in Collaboration with the Virtual Doll Convention.

Designs by Jude Insider Blog | Sewing Patterns and Videos

Designs by Jude Insider Blog

At Virtual Doll Convention, we feel blessed every month to collaborate with Tamara Casey, owner of Designs by Jude. We noticed her work early on and finally asked her if she would be interested in collaborating by making us a pattern for our Christmas Pageant. Our pie in the sky dream was to have the Rockettes pattern for our Grace doll, and she DID NOT disappoint with “Santa Baby.”

Tamara’s knack for being able to re-create any look, or better yet, dream up her own looks from inspiration in her real life, is remarkable. If you have not taken a stroll through Tamara’s online boutique of sewing patterns, you are missing out. All you need to do is click the type of doll that you are interested in sewing for, and a plethora of patterns are available to easily download and print at home.

Tamara’s latest products and patterns are always on the homepage of her website, and we are DIGGING her newest creations - wig stands! You can purchase 6” resin stands and 4” stands for 16” to 18” dolls with an approximate wig circumference of 5 1/4 which is a size 5-6 (this works for most Tonner dolls!)

One of the hottest new patterns to come to Grace Marie Fitzpatrick fans (or any Robert Tonner doll with the RTB 101 Body) is “Weekender”. The pattern features a pair of fitted leggings, sleeveless cowl neck top and a sleeveless cowl neck dress. Items are perfect for a weekend getaway. Better yet, there are sewing tutorials for the cowl neck top and the leggings on the designs by Jude YouTube channel. These videos are the best!

Here are a couple of the latest videos from Tamara Casey. We know how much time and effort goes into filming, editing, and producing videos so we appreciate every single one. Make sure to subscribe and like the videos, it helps support her channel. We would love to see her reach a milestone of 1k subscribers soon!

‘Space Buns’ are trendy and fun hairstyles on modern dolls, so we had to share this awesome wig that we found ON SALE on Tamara’s Website - it comes in a couple of colors, too!

Tamara has it ‘going on’! You do not want to miss any of her upcoming projects, products, and updates. Be sure to follow her on Facebook for weekly inspiration. We can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

This blog is sponsored content for Designs By Jude in Collaboration with the Virtual Doll Convention.