The New York Doll

Hello Dollmakers!
   
     Last Thursday at Attic Window Quilt Shop, we had our last class for Gail Wilson’s New York Doll. She’s the lovely primitive doll with the separate fingers. I figured out I could scan her hand pattern into my embroidery machine and Voila! It does all the hard sewing around those small fingers!

Although I’ll be taking the summer off to care for grandchildren, our dollmaking group will still gather on Thursdays at Attic Window Quilt Shop to finish up their NY Dolls.  The address is 5363 Alpine Ave NW, Comstock Park, MI. 49321.  If you need it, the phone number is 616-785-3357.

We have been talking about what doll we would like to do next in the fall.  Sounds like it will be Gail’s Raggedy Ann and Andy. I’ll be doing some of the tiny ones.

Have some doll fun today!

I didn’t see the tiny ones on Gail’s site, but here’s the link to one set. http://www.gailwilsondesigns.com/all_page_content/cloth_dolls_3.html

You can view Gail’s NYdoll pattern at: http://www.gailwilsondesigns.com/all_page_content/cloth_dolls.html

Here’s mine:

Here’s a close up of their fancy rings.

Here’s a short video of my sewing machine sewing the fingers for a student who wanted a black version:

Hello Again!

Well, Hello again, I apologize for my long absence!  Nothing but a senior moment hit me....I lost my password to my email account associated with this blog and it took until now to regain control of my account. It’s good to be back!

The Thursday group that meets at Attic Window Quilt Shop has been busy making dolls all the while my blog has been quiet. We have made the Topsy Turvey doll, Mammy from the historical series, Hitty, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, Little Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty, and many more.  Ok, true confession, not all of these actually got finished!

Currently three of us are making feedsack dolls and next up will be a repeat of the New York Doll (in May). We made this doll awhile ago, but a few of us would like to make it again. She has lovely fingers. The pattern piece for her hand I scanned into my embroidery sewing machine and let the embroidery module sew it. Perfect fingers every time. I have since traded that machine in. Hopefully the new machine does it just as nice.

You can view some of these dolls at Attic Window Quilt Shop in Comstock Park, Mi or here at Gail’s website: www.GailWilsonDesigns.com

Here’s my Mammy. I had her listed in my Etsy Shop, but was unlisted due to her sensitive nature. I had better luck with my topsy turvey doll.  And yes, that is my nosey kitty in the picture!

Since we have open bee group when we aren’t having an official doll class, we have a few quilters who join us on Thursdays.  You should see some of the amazing things they make!

It’s so nice to be back!