About Me

I've been sewing tiny clothing for tiny dolls since I was six years old.

My Barbies had historically inaccurate wardrobes and I had opinions about it. According to family legend, my mother got so tired of hearing about it that she handed me some fabric and a needle and told me to make my own. So I did. I sewed for Barbies for years, mostly from Estelle Ansley Worrell's The Doll Book, always tweaking the patterns to be even more period-accurate, never quite satisfied.

Fast forward thirty-plus years. I'd stopped sewing. First because I felt embarrassed about loving tiny dolls, then because life got in the way. In April 2020, quarantine was driving me slightly mad. I'd finished the adult coloring books and baked every banana bread my family could reasonably eat. So I decided to challenge myself to create my own patterns for a doll I'd bought years earlier from Prairie Crocus Studio.

What followed involved more algebra and geometry than I'd done since school, a trip to the hospital for a needle-in-leg incident I'd rather not revisit, and–unexpectedly–the discovery of a creative joy I didn't know I'd been missing.

All clothing, hair, and accessories are hand-drafted from original historical sources and made as historically accurate as possible at 1:6 scale. My doll patterns by Prairie Crocus Studio. The dolls are diverse by intention–people of every background were present in every era of history, even when they weren't represented.

Mabry is my grandmother's maiden name. It felt right to build something meant to be passed down under a name that already was.

I'm so glad you're here.