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Photographs of vintage fashion dolls wearing homemade knit fashions scanned from Virginia Lakin’s Petite Bazaar Knitting Book Three (1963).
If you live in the US or Canada and love it, you can buy this vintage booklet from me; or you can check eBay.
PS Keep an eye on Craft Scan Fridays for one or two of the patterns to be posted.
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Who made their collection possible. (Via Chateau Thombeau.)
Then comes a Valentine with a baby carriage. Note the fine print, kids, and beware the joy ride. (Via Bryans Collectible Treasures.)
Flesh-like, Cute, Washable, Harmless, Indestructible and Appealing.
In that order, we believe.
United Air Lines “Mainliner Dolls” ad via LJ.
Vintage paper Valentine paper dolls — one cowboy (with a dog) and one cowgirl (with a cat); via Mountain Kinfolk. (PS Check out my other post: Be My Racist Valentine, 2011.)
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Mrs. Skele Ton has friends — and you can find out how to crochet her hat and make her other clothes — at her home, Minna’s Doll World.
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I wanted to get this huge vintage masked doll to scare my sister with. (She has a fear of dolls and I wanted to sneak it into her bed, pull the comforter up over it and let her find it long after I left the house — don’t worry, I’d be sure to hear her reaction lol)
But sadly, it was not meant to be…
The doll was placed up for auction along with the old metal riding toy tractor, and in Fargo-Moorhead, those old farm toys and pedal cars sell for waayyyy too much for me to even raise my bidding paddle. Maybe next time, the 3-foot old cloth doll will be mine — err, my sisters. *sigh*
Verabee says these big-eyed kitshy beauties are Russian nevalashkas, “traditional baby-shutting-up toy. They make a very soothing clinking noise.”
I’m smitten with this old creepy cloth doll — and if she came with the mannequin, I’d view it as a complete art package, and pose and repose them all the time.
How? By dressing those wishbones up first.
Since this craft project idea comes from the 1962 New Ideas For Christmas, the Fawcett publication supposes you’ll have wishbones left over from Thanksgiving (How many wishbones does a turkey have?) — and the “wishbone figurine” suggestions are Santas, angels, etc.
But don’t be so limited in your thinking.
Why not save all the wishbones you can this holiday season (and whenever you can get them) and make little wishbone figures that look just like your ex, the guy foreclosing on your home or buying your repossessed storage unit, etc. That way when you break them, it will be much more therapeutic.
