RAG DOLLS for DOLL HOUSES

Dolls to put in doll houses, on Christmas trees and shelves, and in small boxes.

The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Doll House. Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1981

A yard of material makes a heap of dolls.The challenge is in stitching together the tiny pattern pieces and, once sewn, turning them inside out, and pushing stuffing material into small openings. I used a small crochet hook to turn the pieces inside out, and a whittled down chopstick to fill the parts with stuffing material.

I made the first little dolls on a treadle sewing machine in Northern Maine. I can see them now, lined up, row upon row, on a long butcher block table, a virtual assembly line of little cloth bodies, patiently awaiting the final touches.

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An admirer of archetypal miniatures. The Christmas Store, a cooperative in Cambridge Massachusetts.
The dollhouse family
Mrs. Hudson, Brother Mycroft, Professor Moriority, and Sherlock Holmes
A miniature of this dolly resides in the dolly's pocket
Sorting through piles of doll house dolls
BULL MARKET Fanieul Hall Boston, 1981
Selling from the shoe in Faneuil Hall
Queen Victoria in the Strong Museum
Doctor Watson with his wife Mary Morsten
The second floor of the shoe can be a pretty wild place!

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