Gail Wilson Designs

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Tiny Hittys dressed and undressed.

I have been making my version of the beloved 6-1/2" Hitty for about three years. For Christmas '06, I added a tiny 3" Hitty to my historical doll ornament collection and of course allow for any of the dolls to be ordered with or without a hanging loop so that they are free to be just small dolls. Little Hitty turned out to be as popular as just about any doll I have ever made and it took several months to complete all the orders that came in as a result of Christmastime orders. Of course, Hitty being Hitty, big or small, she just begs to have her things. The tiny Hitty comes with patterns to make a simple outfit (including undies), or now you can order separate clothes for her.
Learn about who Hitty is and how she evolved from a real wooden doll. I have begun a new series of Hitty (there will be more than one Hitty) and her clothes, bonnets, furniture and other accessories that will be similar to the ones the real Hitty had. There is a Hitty kit club and a club for finished things which can be joined at any time. Click here to go to the Hitty page or use the menu at left. Many new things have been added and more to come every other month.

NOTE: This doll (above photo) was previously called the Fashion Doll, a name some students gave her while in class making her. Although I love this doll, it never sat right with me to have called her the Fashion Doll, so it became increasingly difficult to know exactly what to do with her. Her face and painting was more Early American and indeed, she became the basis of Emma (see below) who was much better suited. I knew I wanted to do an online class of a Fashion Doll, but this doll was not "right". So, my solution was to make this doll her own kit which and then the floodgates opened to the Real Fashion Doll who will become an entire series of kits and patterns of my version of a more traditional doll of the period associated with this genre of dolls (the late 1800's). There will be an online class for the new doll who will have real mohair hair and wonderful costumes and accessories from Civil War times (picture Little Women) and a bit beyond. The scale of the new doll will be a better 12" size that allows for detail without being too large. There is a great deal of interest in this type of doll, moreso than possibly all but Hitty, and I promise you that this will be one of my best series yet. The doll series will be available as kits and patterns, finished dolls, a club for both of these presentations, and, of course, the much awaited online class. All of this is projected to begin this fall. There will be an announcement when the items are ready to be ordered and notification of the online class will be addressed to all who signed up for the Fashion Doll Online Class and on my Classes page which you can click on in the menu at left.

KATE GREENAWAY BOY AND GIRL ~ This will make a pair of 10" painted cloth child dolls in a newly worked pattern of a style I am coming to think of as one of the best for a fairly uncomplicated cloth doll with a fully three-dimensional look. Faces are to be outlined with iron-on transfers and hair is a series of templates and brush technique. Painting is a combination of acrylics and fast drying oils. The charm of this pair of dolls comes from their small size, the added interest of a boy and girl pair and of course the wonderful clothing taken entirely from Kate Greenaway illustrations of the late 1800's. This is a doll you will want to make over and over.

Pattern $18 Add to Cart
Finished Set of Kate Greenaways on double stand $595 Add to Cart

SPRINGFIELD WOODENS (JOEL ELLIS AND MASON & TAYLOR DOLLS)

Kits for this beloved and extraordinary group of dolls will be available in early July. Please visit the Historic and Primitive Page for more information. There is too much to include here.

THE FEEDSACK SERIES

This pattern will make a 14" Doll with Red Shoes and 14" Black Sister. The charm of these dolls made like my Feedsack Doll is the ease of doing their faces with colored pencils. Every student who has made these in my classes easily turned out a great doll. Even the stuffing is easier due to the style of head. Pattern comes with several iron-on faces that you fill in with colored pencils. (A complete set of colored pencils is available on the Supplies page).
Pattern for both dolls $18 Add to Cart
Finished doll with red shoes $395 Add to Cart
Finished black doll $395 Add to Cart

9" Hannah and Her Izannah

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NEW PAINTING SERVICE ~ I will now prepaint any *molded doll* (and hair if applicable). If the doll also has molded hands and feet, these will be painted as well. Style of painting must be consistent with my presentation of the doll (no custom requests). Prices vary depending on the doll involved and its complexity, but run from $45 - 65 and does not include cost of parts which are purchased separately or are already in a kit you are purchasing. If you add this item to your cart, we will email you with a confirmation of actual price depending on the doll parts or kit that this applies to. Add to Cart Or, you may call us with inquiries. Note: Stuffed dolls cannot be accomodated due to the wide variance in other people's stuffing. HITTY ~ Introducing Little Hitty (3")
Tiny Hittys dressed and undressed.	I have been making my version of the beloved 6-1/2" Hitty for about three years. For Christmas '06, I added a tiny 3" Hitty to my historical doll ornament collection and of course allow for any of the dolls to be ordered with or without a hanging loop so that they are free to be just small dolls. Little Hitty turned out to be as popular as just about any doll I have ever made and it took several months to complete all the orders that came in as a result of Christmastime orders. Of course, Hitty being Hitty, big or small, she just begs to have her things. The tiny Hitty comes with patterns to make a simple outfit (including undies), or now you can order separate clothes for her. Learn about who Hitty is and how she evolved from a real wooden doll. I have begun a new series of Hitty (there will be more than one Hitty) and her clothes, bonnets, furniture and other accessories that will be similar to the ones the real Hitty had. There is a Hitty kit club and a club for finished things which can be joined at any time. Click here to go to the Hitty page or use the menu at left. Many new things have been added and more to come every other month. Tiny Hitty is also Number 3 in the Historical Doll Ornament Series. Go to the Christmas page to see the other two dolls.
PAINTED DOLLS ~ Oils and Combination Oils and Acrylics
The Inspiration for the new Fashion Type Dolls	This past year I rekindled a love for oil painting which is appropriate for painted historical dolls. I began with the 14" Fashion Doll below which will be coming out soon in kit form (kit will have all the makings except the oil paints themselves (because they dry out in kits kept for long periods), but these can be purchased separately from my Supplies section in small quantities. This first doll was the subject of one of my doll retreats and the popularity of oil paint as a medium was immediately evident. I liked working with oils for doll faces so much, I just had to modify the Fashion Doll's pattern for a more child-like body and do the Emma edition below as well. 12" All-Cloth Fashion Doll in Two-Piece Outfit with Bonnet and Hatbox ~ This doll has a great very shaped body a painted face, arms and legs with a mohair wig. She comes with the two piece outfit plus her underthings, constructed bonnet, its hatbox. Finished dolls also come with a wooden stand. $450 Add to Cart (Kit projected for early April 08) Note: There is another Fashion Doll with a molded head, arms and legs that will be an oline class (see Classes). This doll will be able to share most things with the All-Cloth version as they are both to be 12" tall.
NOTE: This doll (above photo) was previously called the Fashion Doll, a name some students gave her while in class making her. Although I love this doll, it never sat right with me to have called her the Fashion Doll, so it became increasingly difficult to know exactly what to do with her. Her face and painting was more Early American and indeed, she became the basis of Emma (see below) who was much better suited. I knew I wanted to do an online class of a Fashion Doll, but this doll was not "right". So, my solution was to make this doll her own kit which and then the floodgates opened to the Real Fashion Doll who will become an entire series of kits and patterns of my version of a more traditional doll of the period associated with this genre of dolls (the late 1800's). There will be an online class for the new doll who will have real mohair hair and wonderful costumes and accessories from Civil War times (picture Little Women) and a bit beyond. The scale of the new doll will be a better 12" size that allows for detail without being too large. There is a great deal of interest in this type of doll, moreso than possibly all but Hitty, and I promise you that this will be one of my best series yet. The doll series will be available as kits and patterns, finished dolls, a club for both of these presentations, and, of course, the much awaited online class. All of this is projected to begin this fall. There will be an announcement when the items are ready to be ordered and notification of the online class will be addressed to all who signed up for the Fashion Doll Online Class and on my Classes page which you can click on in the menu at left.
14" Oil Painted Emma	EMMA ~ Pictured below is 14" oil painted Emma, dressed in vintage fabrics from my collection and sitting in her painted and antiqued pouting chair complete with her cloth-bound diary with real entries from her life in the mid 1800's. Finished Emmas: Limited edition of 12 $750 as described above with chair and diary. Dressed in vintage fabrics with her bonnet, dress and pinafore, undies trimmed with handmade lace. The limited edition has striped legs with oil painted shoes. She is completely stuffed with real wool and has a nice weight to hold in your hand. Add to Cart (Only a couple are still available as of 6/2007). Emma alone in reproduction fabrics with leather shoes and knit stockings (not limited edition) $495 Add to Cart Patterns for Emma: Patterns for the Emma doll and outfit (with added shoes and stockings) plus oil painting instructions in new easy step by step. $18 Add to Cart CD for Emma and Charlotte (below): So much more detail than can be given in a printed pattern. Closeup photos and many other helpful visuals so that you can achieve best results. This has all the necessary printable patterns and lessons for both dolls. $35 Add to Cart Painted Pouting Chair (for 14" scale dolls). Antiqued green $42 Add to Cart
14" Oil Painted Charlotte	CHARLOTTE ~ Another 14" Oil Painted Cloth Doll. Next to my Disney doll, I would have to say that when out in public with all my other dolls, Charlotte steals the most hearts. She begins with a traditional pattern style called "the baseball head" (due to the construction being similar to how a baseball cover is sewn). This style creates one of the best true-to-human head shapes there is using cloth and just a couple of pattern pieces. Charlotte comes with her bonnet, simple farmgirl dress, undies trimmed with handmade lace , stockings, and leather shoes. She is completely stuffed with real wool and has a nice weight to hold in your hand. Finished Charlottes: First Edition of 12 $495. Add to Cart Patterns for Charlotte: Patterns for the Charlotte doll and outfit with added shoes and stockings plus oil painting instructions in new easy step by step. $18 Add to Cart CD for Emma (above) and Charlotte: So much more detail than can be given in a printed pattern. Closeup photos and many other helpful visuals so that you can achieve best results. This has all the necessary printable patterns and lessons for both dolls. $35 Add to Cart
	KATE GREENAWAY BOY AND GIRL ~ This will make a pair of 10" painted cloth child dolls in a newly worked pattern of a style I am coming to think of as one of the best for a fairly uncomplicated cloth doll with a fully three-dimensional look. Faces are to be outlined with iron-on transfers and hair is a series of templates and brush technique. Painting is a combination of acrylics and fast drying oils. The charm of this pair of dolls comes from their small size, the added interest of a boy and girl pair and of course the wonderful clothing taken entirely from Kate Greenaway illustrations of the late 1800's. This is a doll you will want to make over and over. Pattern $18 Add to Cart Finished Set of Kate Greenaways on double stand $595 Add to Cart Note: A limited number of kitted parts (this includes everything you need like my other kits) are available to go with the Pattern above. The fabrics are a blue combination pictured below. $38 Add to Cart New blues combination. From left: dress, covered bonnet, boy's flannel and tiny stripe is for boy's collar. Vintage blue ribbon for bonnet and extra tiny buttons come in kit.

	SPRINGFIELD WOODENS (JOEL ELLIS AND MASON & TAYLOR DOLLS) Kits for this beloved and extraordinary group of dolls will be available in early July. Please visit the Historic and Primitive Page for more information. There is too much to include here.
	THE FEEDSACK SERIES This pattern will make a 14" Doll with Red Shoes and 14" Black Sister. The charm of these dolls made like my Feedsack Doll is the ease of doing their faces with colored pencils. Every student who has made these in my classes easily turned out a great doll. Even the stuffing is easier due to the style of head. Pattern comes with several iron-on faces that you fill in with colored pencils. (A complete set of colored pencils is available on the Supplies page). Pattern for both dolls $18 Add to Cart Finished doll with red shoes $395 Add to Cart Finished black doll $395 Add to Cart
9" Hannah and Her Izannah	NEW LIMITED EDITION 9" HANNAH with her own 3" Izannah Walker doll dressed to match, including dress, apron, slip, pantalets and bonnet. This tiny Izannah has a 3-dimensional head though she is made of painted cloth just like her 9" owner. Hannah and Izannah have handmade lace trim and come on a wooden stand. If I could make just one cloth doll, Hannah would be it. She is so nice in your hand. If you click to buy a 20% deposit will be charged, balance on completion (about one month) $350 Add to Cart Close-up of Hannah and Izannah
	CHAIRS ~ During my Joel Ellis (Springfield Wooden) online doll class, it came to my attention that one of my favorite doll chairs was not on my website. No wonder they sold well at shows but the website turned up no orders. You can find this chair at the bottom of the Historical & Primitive Dolls page. It is called the Mustard Chair and it happens to be just right for 12" dolls like the Springfield Woodens and it has a woven splint seat with nice turnings and arms. Also in the same area, you will find a bench (for 2 dolls) and a wooden pouting chair which will serve for lots of dolls up to 14". $110 Add to Cart Shown at left is the Mason & Taylor doll in the mustard chair.