ITEMS BEING ADDED TO ALL THE TIME

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT MOST SALE PRICES WILL NOT SHOW UP IN YOUR CART - WE WILL TAKE THE DISCOUNT WHEN WE INVOICE YOUR ORDER

THE HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL SERIES - SORRY, ALL OF THESE KITS ARE NOW GONE.

NOTE: The Toy and Miniature Museum in Kansas City has a small number of many of the kits in the Historical Folk Doll Series left over. If you wish to see if the one(s) you are interested in are still available, email Sandra Russell at this email: russellsm@umkc.edu - be politely persistent about which kit you want since they seem to have some on their list twice with slightly different names.


THE EARLY AMERICAN DOLL SERIES: Although nearly all of this series has been discontinued and sold out, the dolls in the series, the Basic Doll and her Companion Doll, are now available again and they will be available indefinitely. All clothing kits will eventually be changed over to collections of clothing patterns but are available at a small cost now as reprints of the patterns and instructions.

SORRY, ALL ITEMS IN THIS SERIES NOW SOLD - THANKS TO ALL FOR HELPING US CLEAN OUT. REMEMBER THE DOLLS THEMSELVES (AND CLOTHES IN PATTERN FORM) ARE STILL AVAILABLE.

NOTE: The Toy and Miniature Museum in Kansas City has a small number of many of the kits in the Early American Series left over. If you wish to see if the one(s) you are interested in are still available, email Sandra Russell at this email: russellsm@umkc.edu.


FABRIC RUMMAGE SALE LEFTOVERS



All sold for now, but if you keep watch, we'll have more!

PRIMITIVE ANIMALS ON SALE


NEW SALE PRICES!
ALL REMAINING KITS WILL BE NOW $5 WHILE THEY LAST, THEN KITS WILL BE DISCONTINUED - HOWEVER, PATTERNS (SEE OLD FASHIONED DRY GOODS PAGES) - WILL BE AVAILABLE INDEFINITELY


Sitting Dog was $22.00 Now $5
SOLD OUT
Crouching Rabbit was $22.00 Now $5 Add to Cart


THE FEEDSACK DOLL

This is one of the best dolls I have ever designed. She makes up well, with ease, including stuffing, which is usually one of the hardest parts. She is very old-fashioned in her style and accessories. Made from a feedsack, an historical detail common to homemade cloth dolls, she has a charming face which is accomplished easily with an iron-on transfer and colored pencils applied to her painted cloth finish. Complete with leather shoes, striped legs and a dress made from my own fabric. Her hard-to-find vintage style batise and cotton lace underwear and bonnet, are overdyed with a special new technique included in the kit. She is 14" tall. NOTE: We are no longer able to provide the wonderful vintage feedsacking for this doll (the modern replacement is awful) and so the fabric provided is a suitable weave that acts the part with ease.

Kit $54.00 (old price) Add to Cart This kit is so popular that it has been continued with a reduced price of $42.

FOLK STYLE IZANNAH WALKER DOLLS IN A 12" SIZE (using knit for heads) - MINI KIT

This is a pattern to make a smaller sized doll but otherwise similar to the 17" ones I made for the Historical Folk Doll Series. The smaller size is easier to manage while still being large enough for good detail. Pattern makes Girl, Boy and a Black version with Bonnet and has cotton knit and iron-on faces needed for the head. Recommended to use wool roving in head area only and newly available are paint sets for people buying patterns (see my Supplies page).

Pattern Plus Was $18.00 on sale for $5 Add to Cart



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A DOLL FOR DISNEY
In early 2001, I was asked to do a doll for the Disney movie, "Tuck Everlasting." The doll originally was to have an important role and my mission was to make three of the same doll - the first was to be worn, but as if in the present time of the movie (1820); the second was to be very tattered and look as if she were 100 years old and the last was to be used in a house fire into which Sissy Spacek, playing the mother, runs to rescue the doll because it is so dear to her. When the movie finally came out in fall of 2002, the doll is only a prop on a shelf, but for me it did not really matter because I considered the challenge so great that when I finished with more success than I felt possible, that became my real reward. The real task for me was not just making a rag doll of the times with the qualifications handed to me (only brown for colors and real hair), but to create one which clearly had the stamp of endearing on her and to take my aging techniques into new territory such that it would be hard to really tell that the doll was not old. Her reception at shows proved I was right, for everyone was drawn to her even when they knew nothing of her connection to a movie. Favorite details are her wispy hair, sweet countenance and her worn shoes.


Kit (This is an advanced level kit - you should have done my kits successfully before) $58.00
Add to Cart This kit remains so popular that it has been continued with a reduced price of $46.

IN CASE YOU ARE LOOKING:
The following items were designs of mine that are no longer available. It is my hope to someday make these into project books or individual patterns, but they are no longer kits. They do remain under copyright protection however. Some items listed are clickable links to actual photographs.

Mother Goose, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Little Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty and Pinocchio
• Miss Liberty and Uncle Sam Kit
Very Small Raggedies (3" Silkscreened Tiny Cloth Raggedies)
18TH Century Painted Cloth Folk Doll Set
• The Quilting Bee Series (Cloth Dolls and Quilting Accessories for them)
• The Basic Bear Series
• The Felt Rabbit Series
• The Country and Folk Series (3" dolls from this series still available as patterns and instructions only taken from the discontinued kits) the other items included: Calico Bears, Blocks, Slates, Cow, Horse, Sheep and Pig Pulltoys and the Blue Cupboard shown below.
• A Doll Adventure - A kit to make one of my early porcelain dolls (6.5" boy or girl)
• Noah's Ark Kits - Larger Set had Ark, Mr & Mrs Noah, 2 doves and 7 pair of animals plus a picket fence. Smaller Set was a Platform Pulltoy Version with Noah, doves and 4 pairs of animals. I am still selling a version of the Pulltoy Noah's Ark above.

AVAILABLE AS PATTERNS & INSTRUCTIONS ONLY FROM THESE OLD 1980'S KITS:
FROM THE COUNTRY & FOLK SMALL SIZE SERIES (3" - 5" SIZES)
Folk Doll #1 $5.00 Add to Cart
Folk Doll #2 Black Pickanniny $5.00 Add to Cart
Folk Doll #3 Blonde Braids $5.00 Add to Cart
Folk Doll #4 Black with Knots and Apron $5.00 Add to Cart
Folk Doll #5 Two Folk Dolls with a Heart Garland $5.00 Add to Cart
Folk Doll #6 Topsy - Turvey, 4” tall $6.25 Add to Cart
Folk Doll #8 Black with Knotted Hair and Pinafore $5.00 Add to Cart
Folk Doll #9 Black Mammy $5.00 Add to Cart
Small Amish Family of Four dolls 3”- 4” $8.75 Add to Cart
Calico Bear - 2” sitting bear $2.50 Add to Cart
Folk Dolls and Hearts Wreath - 4 dolls, 4 hearts $5.00 Add to Cart
Set of Three Very Tiny 2” Folk Dolls $3.75 Add to Cart
Painted Americana 3" Doll $6.25 Add to Cart
COUNTRY FOLK DOLLS - Larger 7-1/2” Size

A - Tan doll, knotted hair, pocket doll $8.75 Add to Cart
B - Tan doll, blonde braids, pocket doll $8.75 Add to Cart
C - Tan doll, looped braids, pocket doll $8.75 Add to Cart
D - Brown doll with many braids, pocket doll $8.75 Add to Cart
E - Black doll, knotted hair, pocket doll $8.75 Add to Cart
F - Black mammy with rolling pin $8.75 Add to Cart
G - Topsy-Turvey, each end has pocket doll $8.75 Add to Cart
H - Tan doll boy in cuffed pants $7.50 Add to Cart
I - Brown boy in overalls $7.50 Add to Cart
J - Tan doll with braided buns, pocket doll $10.00 Add to Cart
Amish Man $7.50 Add to Cart
Amish Woman $8.75 Add to Cart
Amish Boy $7.50 Add to Cart
Amish Girl $8.75 Add to Cart
Entire Family of Four Amish $10.00 Add to Cart
Painted Americana 7-1/2” Doll $10.00 Add to Cart
Painted Americana Doll House Family of Four $10.00 Add to Cart

7" WOOL RABBITS


Sold separately. Boy has overalls and shirt; girl has pantaloons, dress and apron, plus two new variations I could not resist including for her clothes. Patterns and Instructions sold from old kits.
Girl Rabbit $10 Add to Cart
Boy Rabbit $10 Add to Cart