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TIP FOR VIEWING THE MANY ITEMS BELOW:
The items have been divided into categories to keep it organized.
• FINISHED ITEMS BEING DISCONTINUED
• KITS
• OLDIES, ORIGINAL SAMPLES
and FOUND ITEMS FROM ARCHIVES
• SOLD ITEMS
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See more Finished Items Down Below Under Oldies, Original Samples & Found Items |
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TINY DOLL, ABIGAIL, BEING DISCONTINUED - These are the last ones.
This tiny doll began her life as the subject of a workshop (and named Abigail) that was cancelled during the beginning months of the pandemic. She is even more petite than my Tiny Doll Collection, who average about 3.5" tall. I scaled her down to under 3" so that she could be a good size doll for even a doll as small as Hitty. The picture does not show off some of her details such as her modeled curls behind her ears, her dainty wooden legs with painted slippers and her blue eyes. Only 5 available. These sold out right away but my assistant found we had a few more bodies, so still available.
She was $225, now on sale for $135 including her stand. Add to Cart |
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TINY DOLL NO. FIFTEEN (2016) ~ THE BONNET DOLL
This next ornament doll is an early Peg Wooden dressed in Regency style. She is based on a photo of an antique doll wearing a wonderful straw bonnet. It was challenging to make a straw bonnet so small, but here she is. Bodies are hand sculpted and jointed wood. The tiny stand is recommended.
She was $250, now on sale for $150 including her stand. Add
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THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL
For this tiny doll in the series celebrating holidays, I chose an angel. Over all the years of my dollmaking, angels have always played an important role. This one is the tiniest of all. Like the other Tiny Dolls in the Nursery Rhyme and Fairy Tale Series and the Holiday Series, this angel is 3.5" tall with the same basic look and construction as the very first one (Little Red Riding Hood) with posable arms and legs on a papier mache molded head and body from my own molds. She wears a hand-dyed gown trimmed in tucks and imported lace, undies underneath include a lace trimmed slip and pantalets. Her wings, guilded halo and her banner are all of painted wood. Halo is securely pegged. Her price was $250 including stand. Last ones on sale for $175
Tiny Angel with Stand Add to Cart
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FROM THE NURSERY RHYME-FAIRY TALE SERIES ~ WEE WILLIE WINKIE - BEING DISCONTINUED
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Up stairs and down stairs in his night-gown.
Tapping at the window, crying at the lock,
Are the children in their bed, for it's past ten o'clock?
This one is my version of Wee Willie Winkie, an old Scottish nursery rhyme much longer in its original form first published in 1841 and sung as a lullaby. My Wee Willie Winkie is the same 3.5" as the other dolls in the Nursery Rhyme Series which began with Little Red Riding Hood. He has curly toed slippers, a knit and tasseled nightcap and a hand-dyed outfit of a tucked gown over bloused pants and carries a tiny wooden lantern. He comes with the wooden stand. $250. On sale for $175 Add to Cart Only 3 left. |
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THE HALLOWEEN CAT AND THE BAT GIRL
Two more Tiny Dolls in the holiday theme for Halloween, the tiny Cat Girl and the Bat Girl both 3.5" tall, a child dressed up as a Halloween cat complete with ears, a tail and carrying her tiny pumpkin gathering tote and her companion dressed as a bat with bat wings and the tiniest of masks. Prices for both (with stands) is usually $250. On sale for $195 each. New lower price $175
Cat Girl Add to Cart
Bat Girl Add to Cart
BEING DISCONTINUED - LAST ONES AVAILABLE and ON SALE |
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LAST SNOW ANGELS ON SALE
These were made this past Christmas and part of a limited edition of 25 cotton batting ornaments. All 4 are on painted wood stands. Just under 4" tall to the tip of her party hat, she has a molded head from my own original mold and is decked out in ruched vintage rayon ribbon and some crystal rhinestones as bling on her ruffled netting collar. Regular price was $138, SALE PRICE $69 (half price) Add
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6.5" (HITTY SIZE) IZANNAH
Previously I had included this doll in all the dolls being discontinued, but found I had enough sets of bodies and clothing for 4 more. If you order it will be a pre-order since I still have to paint and dress, so it will be a 2 week wait to ship. Selling them as pictured with the tiny cat, straw bonnet and wood stand and same price. $495 each. Add
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Finished Bird Pincushion
Shown at left is a finished bird pincushion and made from the original teal chenille fabric I used in the early finished ones. It only needed its spools, which we found and finished to complete this favorite of all the pincushions ordered in their day. $48 Add
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DICK AND JANE READER - These hand bound books began as accessories to a convention souvenir doll which was a self portrait of me in first grade in 1956, but are now available as stand alone doll accessories and have delightful tiny reproductions inside from actual Dick and Jane series books. Inside pages tell the history of how these books came to be the standard for learning to read for many decades. Size is 1-3/8" x 1-5/8". Regular price $24, on sale for $14 Add
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GINNY DOLL PAPERDOLL FOR YOUR DOLLS
This set was originally used as an accessory for the 1950's theme doll representing me in first grade (1956) that I did for UFDC and now is made its own item and number 3 in my doll size paperdoll series.The Set comes in a tiny gift box (pictured is the cover of the tiny box) with Ginny made as a front and back paperdoll mounted on a thin wood silhouette with a painted wooden base to stand on her own. Tiny envelopes come with them to hold their three outfits which although are meant
to be display items with the clothing left uncut, the outfits will
fit if cut out. Regular price $24, on sale for $14 Add
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A TINY BOOK OF FLOWERS - taken from the Secret Garden, the beloved book by Frances Hodgson Burnet. This little book (smaller than other books above) was made as an accessory for my series of dolls from the Secret Garden. Book size is 1-3/8" x 1-5.
Regular price $24, on sale for $14 Add
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SELECT CHAIRS BEING DISCONTINUED:
9" LADDERBACK CHAIR WITH HEART BACK SLATS - Shown on far left. This chair was made for my 12" Izannah Collection but is available on its own. The 3 back slats have a heart shape along the top edges and an ash splint seat. Although designed for a 12" doll, it would also work for a slightly larger doll and many smaller sizes - these would look like a child sitting in a real chair, a look I love. Only a few left.
Heart Back Ladderback Chair $112.00 Add
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LARGE LADDERBACK AGED WOOD CHAIR - A good display chair for dolls 14" to 20" tall.
The chair on the left, which has a woven split seat, is aged wood. It is 14" tall and made for dolls in the 14" to 20" range. These used to sell for $250 due to all tbe hand turning, aging the wood and the chair seats. One available and on sale $175. Add
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HALLOWEEN COTTON BATTING KITS ON SALE - half price:
The PumpkinMan and a Snowman
were cotton batting characters
originally taught at two workshops at the R John Wright Convention. More followed. Kits
are easy to make - the whole process is mostly gluing
(a tiny bit of easy sewing). All cotton battings are
pre-hand dyed for you. PumpkinMan shown at right, the Witch shown at left and the Halloween Cat shown center. All 3 kits were $58, now on sale for $29 each - half price.
PumpkinMan Kit Add
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Witch Kit Add
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Halloween Cat Kit Add
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THE 17" QUILTED SANTA - KiTS AND PATTERNS on SALE:
This painted cloth-faced Santa shows off his quilted and pieced robe
on a uniquely constructed body that allows him to stand by himself,
through a special technique of weighting his feet. His wonderful
presence is created by the layers of clothing and the many fabrics
that go into his robe. Easy 4-patch quilt construction is used to
create the "fabric"
for his robe. A few options are included for accessories as well.
This pattern can provide many many looks from vintage country to
Victorian by just altering the fabric choices. Included in the Mini Kit are wood
soles, bearding, all paints, face stencil, wires for arms, a hard-to-find
antiqued belt buckle and instructions for how to make his address
book. The pattern only has full instructions and patterns plus the face stencil.
Mini Kit (Includes Patterns and Instructions) Was $78, on sale now for $58 Add
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Pattern and Instructions were $22.00 , on sale for $18 Add
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KIT FOR ALL THE FABRICS FOR QUILTED SANTA - Sale for only 4 available packs
I have assembled a limited edition of all of the fabrics (about
70) necessary to make this santa in the old browns palette that
I used. The 60 squares used to make the 4-patch quilt for his robe
are from my own stash of many years and all pre-cut, many overdyed,
ready to sew. Except for a few accessories, everything is here,
including body fabric, lead feet, leather for his belt, fabrics
for shoes, stockings, pants, tunic, sack and cap with floss for
the tassel. For all other accessories besides fabrics, visit the Just
For Santas page. This fabric kit is optional (or you can gather
all your own fabrics), but does not include the mini-kit
above, so you will need both.
Quilted Santa Fabric Kit was $175.00, on sale for $125 Add
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SHEEP
PULLTOY KIT - LAST ONES
Sheep is modeled after my extensive collection
of antique sheep like him. I was inspired long
ago to collect these because our little historic
town library has a huge and wonderful similar
collection on display in honor of Acworth, NH,
being a real sheep town having produced more
wool for Civil War uniforms than any other single
place. Until very recently, there could always
be seen several hundred sheep grazing around
town. I always had about 4-6 of my own. The little
pulltoy has a molded body, tiny metal wheels,
a bell and the rest is precut wood parts that
assemble easily. All materials are included in
the kit with extra parts available for those
liking to add this little guy to their dolls
or Santas as accessories.
Kits for Sheep $78 SALE PRICE $58. Add
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MISC PINCUSHIONS FOUND
Partially finished Crazy Quilt Pincushion
The one on the left in the photo is my permanent sample. What this offering is is for the one on the right in two pieces. All it needs to finish is the feather stitch embroidery along the seams of the segments with included floss and instructions then put onto the wood base which is all finished for you. $42 Add
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EARLY PRINTED CATS TO SEW YOURSELF (please note, these are not the ones that I sell currently)
These printed cats were taken from an antique unsewn cat by the Arnold Printworks Patented 1892. These printed cats and other animals and dolls were very popular for the home sewer who was to sew up and stuff these printed treasures for playthings long ago. These are 2 of the sizes done for me by a good friend before I reworked the original artwork for each of the four sizes I now sell.
We have found in our stash a number of two of the sizes and packaged them to make up 2 cats in each size.
3.5" size $5.75/pkg of 2 Add
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5" size $5.95/pkg of 2 Add
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BLACK LEATHER FOR SHOEMAKING
This is high quality glove leather in black. Originally intended for dolls sized 12" or more, but over time found I needed thinner for the 9" dolls I was doing so this sat around. Two pieces 4" x 7" each are in each package. My other leather sells for $7.75, these packages are at clearance price of $3.75 Add
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A VERY SPECIAL OFFER:
A VERY SMALL CLOTH DOLL I - Five sewn and stuffed bodies with 5 complete outfits in all assorted vintage fabrics from my collection. Dolls are ready for skin color paint (dark or light), iron-on faces and simple hair. Clothes (dress, apron, slip, pantalets) are all sewn with gathers ready to fit on the dolls. Instructions and all supplies to finish are included. Picture on bottom shows what items are completed so far in the kits. I only have 2 of these.
I used to sell many (so many!) of these tiny dolls all finished. These were stashed away but never finished. So, I made up 2 super kits both with 5 dolls and 5 outfits each. Best of all the clothes are all made from precious very old vintage fabrics. The most perfect of very
small dolls - only 2-1/2 inches tall - a perfect doll for a doll, a special gift or join two together
as friends.
Kit $98.00 Add
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TWO NOAH'S ARKS KITS BEING DISCONTINUED
SPECIAL
EDITION PULLTOY NOAH'S ARK
This is a favorite revisited from
my old discontinued kits. This pulltoy ark set is very small
and is a good sized toy for smaller dolls especially the Early
American Series or even Hitty, but could be a good toy for
any size doll or Santa. Kit has pulltoy ark with wheels, Noah,
and 4 sets of animals on small bases plus complete paints and
instructions. A pretty easy kit in spite of scale. Ark is about
2 inches long and animals are less than 1/2" tall. Kits were $48.
Kits now discontinued and on sale for $32 Add
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PRINTED
DOLL APRONS - There is something so dear about doll
aprons, bonnets and shoes. These are aprons popular in the
late 1800's which show up on many antique dolls, notably, Izannah
Walkers, Springfield Woodens and many others. This is a common
design - there were many - that I adapted and now print out
in brown on extra fine overdyed batiste (for drape). These
are mini-kits to make your own with sewing template, instructions,
pre-printed and pre-overdyed (antique white) apron fronts plus
lining and button for waistband. Even Hitty has one her size.
THESE SIZES ARE BEING DISCONTINUED AND ARE NOW HALF PRICE:
• Apron for 7-8" dolls $8 Add
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• 8-9" - $8 SOLD OUT
• 9-10" - $9 Add
to Cart
• 12" - $9 SOLD OUT
• 14" - $9 SOLD OUT
• 16-18" - $10 SOLD OUT
PLUS 3 FINISHED APRONS FOR 12" DOLLS $15 each (were $28) Add
to Cart (2 left)
SMALLER SIZES BELOW ARE NOT BEING DISCONTINUED
NOTE: These prices are not sale prices
• Apron for 3" dolls (Tiny Hitty) $12.00 Add
to Cart
• Apron for 3.5" dolls $12.00 Add
to Cart
• Apron for 6" dolls (Hitty) $18.00 Add
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MOTHER GOOSE BOOK KIT - A kit to make a small bound book just right for a doll.
Mother Goose first
appeared as a storyteller in France in the late 1600's. Since
then Mother Goose has become synonomous with nursery rhymes.
The easy kit will make a real cloth bound tiny book with
8 pages containing 15 popular nursery rhymes. Book size is 1-3/4" x 2-1/4".
Kit was $21. Now on sale for $15 Add
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Rhymes Included:
Old Mother Goose
Little Bo Peep
Pussy-Cat, Pussy-Cat
Little Boy Blue
Little Jack Horner
Miss Muffet
To Market
There was an Old Woman
Jack and Jill
Humpty Dumpty
Dickery, Dickery Dock
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Early to Bed
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
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MOHAIR FOR DOLL HAIR - This is a smooth but not the silky more realistic kind known as "English" mohair and therefore best for cloth dolls.It is slightly woolier than the English, but much easier to work with. You can see it here in auburn on a Basic Doll and it was also used for Lotties and many of my angels.
SPECIAL OFFER - I have a huge supply of the Auburn and Brown roving from the old days of many kits having it included in the kit supplies, and need to clear out some. 5 yard bags $10.95. REDUCED MORE TO $8.95
Auburn Add
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Brown Add
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NEW BUNDLES - Tiny Shirtings for Dolls. All of these have been used on my dolls and in kits and these are made up from leftover fabrics which we have cut up into fat quarters and bundled. No two bundles are exactly the same and we cannot give choices. The photo shows 3 random bundles to show the basic variety. Each bundle has 10 assorted pieces. We only have 17 bundles available. These, in fact all fabrics I offer, are very hard to find in small scale. On sale $28 per bundle. Add
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OLD KITS WANTED: I will buy back any kits (or the parts listed) that you may never get to make for the following Dolls. All pieces must be untouched (not worked upon). If you have any of these, please take a picture and send it and your information to my email: gailwilsondesigns@gmail.com. Once I agree you have what I am looking for, we can agree on how to pay you and cover shipping. I have many customers who would like these and we will need to make all new kits with the items.
• Springfield Woodens - Joel Ellis or Mason Taylor Styles in either size 12" or 9". Will pay $35. Must have molded heads and all wooden pieces plus metal hands and feet. No other items necessary.
• The 10" Molded Queen Anne - Molded one-piece head and body plus arms and legs minimum, other pieces from the kit appreciated. $35
• The 12" Wooden Queen Anne - Molded head and all wooden pieces minimum, other pieces from the kit appreciated. $35
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