Gail Wilson Designs

CLOTH COVERED JOURNALS
I have begun covering everything with my favorite fabrics, not only boxes to store things, but all my designs and patterns are now on shelves in attractive cloth covered binders and notebooks and boxes. Historically, books were often covered in fabrics to preserve their preciousness and many can be seen today on the antiques market. Vintage style prints are used to cover a 7-1/2”x 10” lined composition book. Covers are uniquely made to be removable and a spare notebook is included for the future. Journals may be ordered plain or with simple vintage looking embroidered titles added. There is a pattern to make your own covers for these journals and three ring binder versions. I made one as a gift for my mother with a picture of my sister when she was small, now dead from cancer, with the words “Remember Me” embroidered with the picture.
Color Choices: Vintage browns or with blues
All finished journals come with an extra refill and have choices of Plain, with Embroidered Titles, or with cloth sepia photos as listed.
Priced from $32 to $45.

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Click here to see photos that are used.
Custom Journals - add $1 per letter for custom lettering. Or, send me your photo and this will be printed on cloth and sewn to your journal. Add $10. Letters and photos may be combined, such as in my example above. Allow 3 weeks for custom choices. Email or call for custom work.

PATTERN #107 Learn how to cover composition books and 3-ring binders.
$9.50 Add to Cart

TYPE OF JOURNAL: Click here to choose the type of journal you would like.

PATTERN #107-B Learn how to cover boxes of all shapes with your favorite fabrics. Stacking boxes, a sewing box, rectangular, magazine holder boxes. How to line them and then label them. Suggestions for where to find good boxes are included. $9.50 Add to Cart

STACK OF THREE COVERED BOXES
As I have been trying to make my in-the-house workshop more of a room instead of a mess, attractive storage has been a challenge. Since I love fabrics and find displaying them in plain sight a pleasure, I began covering everything from these stacks of boxes to all of the many notebooks and binders of designs and patterns. The results are quite pleasing. And so, here are some of these things for you. Store sewing supplies or art supplies in them or just look at them. These are not only carefully covered on the outside, but lined as well. Sizes are 8”,9” and 10”. Fabrics are choice vintage style prints in soft mustard tones.

Set of 3 $150.00 Add to Cart
Pattern to cover all kinds of boxes - see above Pattern #107-B

A TREASURED SEWING BOX
A good gift item or just one of those things to make you feel better, a 7” covered bandbox like those above filled with my favorite sewing things. Nestled in the box are a pair of can’t-live-without 4” Ginghers with the bigger finger loops, a package of my selection of the best needles used in dollmaking and general sewing, some great pins, a tin of beeswax to condition threads, a measurer, leather thimble and a spool of the my best cotton quilting thread on a wooden spool that does not tangle and is very strong. To complement the box fabric is a tomato style pincushion filled with real wool to preserve needles.

Kit $85.00 Add to Cart
Finished $125.00 Add to Cart

VINTAGE STYLE SEWING BOX SET
With so much emphasis on sewing in dollmaking, it is no wonder dollmakers are also attracted to old fashioned sewing accessories made from scraps and materials at hand to protect and hold safe these precious items. I have gathered together a pincushion top sewing box with attached strawberry emery, two needle cases, a flat style tomato pincushion, and a scissors case. Available in pattern only version, limited edition kit and finished as a special gift for yourself or for someone else. Kit has all materials including the papier-mache foundation box, vintage style mixed prints, wool roviing to stuff both pincushions, buttons, and other notions. Finished sets are made up in either reproduction fabrics or vintage fabrics as shown above and include fancy snipping scissors in the 7-piece sets.

Pattern Only $9.50 Add to Cart
Papier-Mache Box $4.00 Add to Cart
Limited Edition Kit $38.00 Add to Cart

Complete CD of an online class to make all of the items in this pattern or kit with many photos and extra how-to's. $20 Add to Cart

Finished Vintage Sewing Set in Reproduction Fabrics $175 Add to Cart (with complementary pins, GW needles, scissors)
Finished Vintage Sewing Set in Real Vintage Fabrics as shown above $295 Add to Cart

• VINTAGE STYLE SEWIES ~ These are padded, lined and sewn up in overdyed Civil War prints. Some of the tomato pincushions are in rich velvets (red, blue, mustard, green). They make wonderful stocking stuffers or treat yourself.
Scissors cases (small embroidery size scissors) $18 Add to Cart Rectangular Needle Keepers $15 Add to Cart
Heart Needle Keepers (Civil War Prints) $18 Add to Cart
Flat Tomato style pincushions in velvets $7.50 Add to Cart
Flat Tomato style pincushions in Civil War prints $7.50 Add to Cart
Small Strawberry Emeries $9.50 Add to Cart

Make this set with either the pattern or the limited edition kit.

Heart Needlecases & More Sewies

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

TINY 3" PAPIER MACHE IZANNAH ~ Edition of 12. I borrowed the bodies from the ornament collection and then gave them all cotton print dresses in a rare tiny fine weight print from my private stash. They suddenly no longer look like the ornaments they were but now an Izannah for a doll. Under her dress is a slip and pantalets. $95 Oops, one just found in our closet. Please call if interested.

Watch for another different editon for Valentine's Day 08.

VINTAGE STYLE PINCUSHIONS - I have always been intrigued by the wonderful and often whimsical pincushions that were created by women long ago. I have taken my own "folk art" liberties in the designs, feeling that it is well within the nature of these pieces. Historically strawberries and birds figure prominently as well as pincushions on pedestal bases - usually these were created from broken and saved glass oil lamp bases in the spirit of making use of everything. I have instead chosen to make my own bases of turned wood treated to look in character. My bird pincushion has the added feature of a spindle for spools of thread. Stuffed with the best fine wool for preserving needles and pins.The pear and the crazy quilted ones are new to the series.

Kits to make these pincushions contain all the velvets (or other fabrics needed) and wood parts, real wool stuffing and notions to make them. All you will need is finish for the wood - this is explained in detail in the kit.

Bird Kit $29.50 Add to Cart
Bird Finished $38.00 Add to Cart Strawberry Kit $29.50 Add to Cart
Strawberry Finished $38.00 Add to Cart

Round Kit $29.50 Add to Cart
Round Finished $38.00 Add to Cart Pear Kit $29.50 Add to Cart
Pear Finished $38.00 Add to Cart

Crazy Quilted Kit $29.50 Add to Cart
Crazy Quilted Finished $38.00 Add to Cart New: Spoolrack Pincushion (see photo by clicking the illustration above). Finished $48.00 Add to Cart

MINIATURE STRAWBERRY
This is just like the larger one above, even with its own turned wood base, but is only 2" tall. Just right for gifts or for a doll. Comes in tidy little brown gift box.

Tiny boxed kit $12.50 Add to Cart
Finished pincushion $18.00 Add to Cart

DOLL CHAIRS WITH VINTAGE FINISHES
Since a lot of my dolls are now in a larger size (for almost 20 years I worked on dolls 8" tall or less), I found that I wanted a size antique chair that is not only hard to find, but very expensive, due to their rarity. So I set about reproducing two in my own small collection. The chair on the left is painted a charming red that has been realistically distressed to look old and the chair on the right, which has a woven split seat, is aged wood. Both are 14" tall and are for dolls in the 14" to 20" range. Click on the illustrations for photos.

Red Chair $95.00 Add to Cart
14" Ladderback with Arms $125.00 Add to Cart

WONDERFULLY TURNED LADDERBACK ARM CHAIR ~ THE MUSTARD CHAIR
This chair is best for dolls in the 10" - 12" range. It is a more refined look than any of my other chairs and is painted a pleasing mustard color with real ash splint seats. Chair is about 11" tall. $110 Add to Cart

BASIC LADDERBACK BENCH AND CHAIR
I made these a long time back for displaying dolls but they are still good basic display pieces for 9" - 12" dolls and they are available in kit form too. Easy to assemble and paint (chair old red and bench green) with all materials and wood parts provided. Seat weaving is traditional rush-style and instructions are included. These look like the same chairs as appear in the Early American Series, but they are larger. Bench will hold two dolls.

Chair Kit $38.00 Add to Cart
Finished $54.00 Add to Cart
Bench Kit $38.00 Add to Cart
Finished $58.00 Add to Cart

WOODEN BENCH - NOT SHOWN (YET)
This painted wooden bench (syled like the EA settle bench) is just right for displaying a pair of dolls (intentionally matched or not) in the 12-14" size range. It is painted a pleasant sage green to go with whomever graces its wide seat and would look especially good with a doll sized quilt draped over its high back. About 11" wide x 10" tall and 4" deep. $48 Add to Cart

PAINTED POUTING CHAIR (for 14" scale dolls). Antiqued green $42 Add to Cart


	DOLL CHAIRS WITH VINTAGE FINISHES Since a lot of my dolls are now in a larger size (for almost 20 years I worked on dolls 8" tall or less), I found that I wanted a size antique chair that is not only hard to find, but very expensive, due to their rarity. So I set about reproducing two in my own small collection. The chair on the left is painted a charming red that has been realistically distressed to look old and the chair on the right, which has a woven split seat, is aged wood. Both are 14" tall and are for dolls in the 14" to 20" range. Click on the illustrations for photos. Red Chair $95.00 Add to Cart 14" Ladderback with Arms $125.00 Add to Cart
	WONDERFULLY TURNED LADDERBACK ARM CHAIR ~ THE MUSTARD CHAIR This chair is best for dolls in the 10" - 12" range. It is a more refined look than any of my other chairs and is painted a pleasing mustard color with real ash splint seats. Chair is about 11" tall. $110 Add to Cart
	BASIC LADDERBACK BENCH AND CHAIR I made these a long time back for displaying dolls but they are still good basic display pieces for 9" - 12" dolls and they are available in kit form too. Easy to assemble and paint (chair old red and bench green) with all materials and wood parts provided. Seat weaving is traditional rush-style and instructions are included. These look like the same chairs as appear in the Early American Series, but they are larger. Bench will hold two dolls. Chair Kit $38.00 Add to Cart Finished $54.00 Add to Cart Bench Kit $38.00 Add to Cart Finished $58.00 Add to Cart
	WOODEN BENCH - NOT SHOWN (YET) This painted wooden bench (syled like the EA settle bench) is just right for displaying a pair of dolls (intentionally matched or not) in the 12-14" size range. It is painted a pleasant sage green to go with whomever graces its wide seat and would look especially good with a doll sized quilt draped over its high back. About 11" wide x 10" tall and 4" deep. $48 Add to Cart PAINTED POUTING CHAIR (for 14" scale dolls). Antiqued green $42 Add to Cart