This is an early 60s English paper doll. She was a favorite of mine. For some reason I always had her as Asian in the games I played with my dolls. These are her clothes but I later supplemented her wardrobe with the orphan clothes in the next frame.

I'm used to seeing 3 Little Girls in this type of book, but this set has two. I will ad another set like next post. If anyone knows the artist of this set, please let me know. It looks familiar but I can't think of a name. Whitman 1949. Description: reproduction Name:2 little girls who grew and grew Date:1949 Publisher:Whitman Artist:unknown Format: internet files Condition: uncut reproduction Ratings: Out of 10 Base: 8 slightly cartoonish, the older r blond girl's hair is a little silly Clothing: 8 cute outfits Accessories: 9 good hats and small accessories Cover: 8.5 Girls in front of flowers with faces of the older girls Color: 9 nice pastel feeling colors Shading/Texture: 8 soft shading is lovely cute patterns and details Overall:8.4 of 10

Have you ever heard of The Ginghams Paper Dolls? They were very popular many years ago and women have fond memories of playing with them as a girl.

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Hi Everyone! Thanks for joining today and reading my blog. I truly appreciate your curiosity and your support. A couple of years ago, I came across a foundation paper pieced pattern (FPP) from Mary McGuire featured in Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks. I loved the block so much, I redrew it in EQ8 and asked my bee mates to make blocks for a bee quilt. I was quite happy with the result. There as so much excitement and rapport, that I took the idea a little further. I envisioned a whole community of girls and started working on adapting the blocks even further giving each one a nice outfit and different hairstyle. During one of my patchwork retreats, I sewed together most of these and then put them away. They seemed to be rather small and even I was a little discouraged to sew them at 4" x 6". Then I had another idea. What if you could mix and match the dolls to make your very own "paper doll" just like when we were kids? So, I had to go back to the drawing board and design the dolls to be interchangeable. I divided them into three segments - head, torso and legs and increased the block size. I designed and sewed together Emily, the reddish-brown girl on the far right followed by Mia on the left followed by the innocent and bashful Jasmin. With each doll block, I improved my own designing skills and understanding of my quilt designing software to design foundation blocks. I decided to increase the width of all blocks to 6" x 9" instead of 5" x 9" which gave the possibility of adding hands to Mia (both dark haired girls). I liked how it gave the illusion of dancing. Since there was such a great interest in the dolls, I started writing a pattern for a mini collection. Yes, my dream is one day to have an extensive pattern with many dolls, but pattern writing takes time, a LOT of time. Not only must you know how to technically write, you must know how to utilize your computer programs to fulfill your ideas which are clear enough for everyone to read and understand. I want to stick to my philosophy of simple, easy and practical especially in my patterns. If you have too many details in the pattern, your customers will lose interest. If there is not enough, the finished product will not look like it is supposed to and your patterns will never be bought again. I truly wanted to design easy, do-able patterns for everyone with a little bit of foundation piecing knowledge. When writing the pattern, I added a bonus hairstyle - a pretty shorter cut, because not all girls have long hair. I also wanted to set the dolls apart from other doll or girl patterns and designed a "Girl Power" quilt with a whole community of girls. I tried to create movement and flow between the dolls by adding a simple Log Cabin Block between them allowing the color to radiate towards the middle. Originally, I worked out a grid of quilting over the entire quilt that would not interfere with the doll faces and speed up the quilting time, but when I started marking my quilt, the lines started to interfere way too much. I sprayed the whole quilt with water and started again! I worked on a new design to eliminate the intrusive quilting over their faces. As with all designs, it usually gets changed slightly during implementation due to moods, brain gas and time restraints. : ) The center of the quilt, quilted up very nicely. I am not totally content with the outer parts of the quilting, because when I sprayed the quilt, the fabric lost its shape and the marker was not cooperating. I was afraid to iron the quilt again with the risk of having the lines reappear. I am currently unhappy with ALL quilting markers. If there is one thing that I am displeased with the way the quilt turned out, it is the quilting and the background fabric. I should have sent the quilt to a long arm quilter and should have used more of a contrasting background or darker skin colors for the girls. Another fabric other than a solid such as a low volume light printed fabric would work very nicely as well. And, at the very last minute (the eleventh hour so to say), I had a revelation to design hands for Mia! Now, you can have a whole string of paper dolls holding hands. Not only that, but there are also three options for an ending hand - open, closed and partially open. To finish up the quilt, I added some lovely 2 1/2" Double-Folded, Continuous Machine Binding. It was the first time that the binding came out exactly the way I wanted it too without "beauty flaws. " Honestly, I just couldn't stop designing. My mind kept going and going with ideas for new dolls! I had to keep reminding myself - this is the MINI collection. "You have to come to an end, Karen." Here are some of the noticeable design differentces from the original to the pre-edited Mia. I made the torso and legs longer and pepped up her hairstyle. I found the feet to be the most challenging. There are at least four different versions of the feet and legs that I sewed together, before I really found one that I loved. You will find those in the final version of Mia in the pattern booklet. So, I am proud to present this wonderful 16-page foundation pieced collection featuring three different dolls, one bonus hairstyle, four different hands for Emily and several ideas including instructions for the cover quilt. There are more than 200 different dolls you can make not including the hands for Mia. You can find it for sale on Etsy in the easypatchworkSHOP. You can also find it at these local stores in Germany: einfach bunt quilts & Quilt ét Textilkunst. If you wish to carry it in your patchwork and quilting store, please write for wholesale purchases. I really look forward to seeing what you do with this pattern. Please send me an email with your doll or share on social media for all of us to see under the hashtag: eppaperdolls. Thank you for joining me today and reading all about the Paper Dolls Mini Collection. Enjoy your week(end).

This is a full sheet measuring approx. 19.7 inches x 28.9 inches. Has original fold creases. Excellent condition - some light fold wear. Made by American Greetings Wonderful for scrapbooking or wrapping a beautiful package. Please visit my shop for a huge selection of papers for all occasions here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGOOSEandTheHOUND

Margaret Brown sent me these wonderful pictures a while ago, and I'm happy to share them with you today. This is a sample of the kind of ornament you'll create in Margaret's workshop. Creating Sunbonnet Sue Ornaments with Margaret is limited to 20 people, and there are still a few slots left. 9-9:45 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 8 in Embassy Ballroom B. Ornaments based on the classic applique quilt pattern using color, designs and accessories. Some materials will be provided, but bring small sharp scissors and a see-through ruler (patterned paper if you like). Fee: $3.00. P.S.: Our best wishes for Howe's speedy recovery.

The Betsy McCall paper doll was published in the McCall magazine, starting in 1951. I am grouping them by theme and/or months, and offering them to you this way. This listing is for five files, with Betsy doing things in the month of August, from the years 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959, and 1960, and it will be perfect for your little one to play with during the summer months or anytime! Just print it in sturdy card stock, and make sure to cut the tabs for the clothes to be put on the doll. You can download and use for many of your projects, today and in the future. These are perfect to use as a print for cards, tags, in scrapbooking, and many other uses! You MAY NOT re-sell these images as is or as your own work either in print or digital form. But you may sell a product you made using them (tags, cards, etc), just let them know where you got the images in the listing, please :-) These are high resolution images. This is an INSTANT DOWNLOAD - available right after payment, see your receipt for instructions. You will recieve FIVE jpeg file. NO refunds on download listings. IMPORTANT: The image may vary slightly in appearance when printed. This is due to the paper quality, and/or the calibration of your printer.

Here’s a 5th set of Vintage Paper Dolls for you to choose from for the angel project: When you print the various sheets of dolls I’ve shared, you might notice that the dolls vary some i…

Wow..can you believe it has been another week again?! Welcome, if you are here for the first time. Hope you will stay and look around for a bit! I was so excited when I heard that Week 2 for Project Run and Play was Sportswear. The first thing that came to my mind was a modern, yet vintage golfer. Funny how my brain works sometimes, but I ran with it, and this is what I came up with: My husband was the genius behind the name of the outfit this week. Don't you love it? My biggest goal this week was to make the clothes comfortable, interchangeable, and easy to move in. When I was a little girl, I wore knickers constantly. I love them because you can wear them in the spring and summer with no socks or in the winter and fall with socks and they work! The knickers were made from a lightweight cotton (we do live in Las Vegas, so I wanted to make sure my daughter could wear them year round!). I added the button detailing on front to give it more of a vintage feel and they ended up being one of my favorite details! I also adore the button closures at the knee. Next up is the shirt. It was made with a lightweight knit, so I doubled it so it wasn't transparent. It is a very simple shirt, but by far my favorite detail is the pleating detail I put on the shoulder. I love that she can wear this plain as well and show that off! Last we have a sweet little vest. I knew I wanted to pleat the bottom and by lining it in a contrasting fabric, you can catch little glimpses as she moves..love that! This was made from a t shirt pattern. I left off the sleeves and then cut the front right down the middle and then made the new shape! Lastly I made some sweet hair accessories and a belt that coordinated and brought everything together. These belts are so fun to make. You can find my tutorial for them HERE. They are so great to add to any outfit for a pop of color. And here are a few outtakes from the shoot. My daughter had such a great time swinging that vintage wooden club around. Not a bad swing form for a 3 year old, right?! (Maybe I'll get to make more golfing outfits in the future...):) So there you have it..a bit of what went into this week. I'd LOVE your vote over at Project Run and Play. You can vote through Sunday evening! And of course, here is the paper doll outfit this week: How cute is she? Find the outfit HERE. Remember, free downloads are for likers of the NEW Kiki and Company page on Facebook. You can find the page HERE. Thanks! Thanks for stopping by.

Peek inside with this slide show: The Brinkley Girls I was going to post this later in the week, but Fantagraphics has a special offer on this large size book: $20.99 instead of $29.99 today only. Here's the publisher's description: For over thirty years Nell Brinkley’s beautiful girls pirouetted, waltzed, Charlestoned, vamped and shimmied their way through the pages of William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers, captivating the American public with their innocent sexuality. This sumptuously designed oversized hardcover collects Brinkley’s breathtakingly spectacular, exquisitely colored full page art from 1913 to 1940. Here are her earliest silent movie serial-inspired adventure series, “Golden Eyes and Her Hero, Bill;” her almost too romantic series, “Betty and Billy and Their Love Through the Ages;” her snappy flapper comics from the 1920s; her 1937 pulp magazine-inspired “Heroines of Today.” Included are photos of Nell, reproductions of her hitherto unpublished paintings, and an informative introduction by the book’s editor, Trina Robbins. In 1907, at the tender age of 22, Nell Brinkley came to New York to draw for the Hearst syndicate. Within a year, she had become a household name. Flo Ziegfeld dressed his dancers as “Brinkley Girls,” in the Ziegfeld Follies. Three popular songs were written about her. Women, aspiring to the masses of curly hair with which Nell adorned her fetching and idealized creations, could buy Nell Brinkley Hair Curlers for ten cents a card. Young girls cut out and saved her drawings, copied them, colored them, and pasted them in scrapbooks. The Brinkley Girls took over from the Gibson Girls. Nell Brinkley widened her scope to include pen and ink depictions of working women. Brinkley used her fame to campaign for better working conditions and higher pay for women who had joined in the war effort, and who were suffering economic and social dislocation due to acting on their patriotism. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she drew women of different races and cultures. Except among a small group of avid collectors, she has been unjustly forgotten... until now. This has been a long time coming from Trina Robbins, and glad it's finally out there. For how to order, reviews, interviews with Trina and a PDF file with more pages to view, go to this Fantagraphics link. No, I don't get a cut. I'm just a big Trina Robbins fan.

These are outfits from the Delineator December 1902 magazine. I like the way the artist has an outfit for the doll with each outfit for Margaret. She also had a wonderful way of drawing fashions wi…

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This paper doll is based on my youngest daughter, Korey’s mother who is watching us from Heaven now. Pat met her at lots of paper doll conventions. Candy and my other daughter Helen would he…