PAINTED VICTORIAN CLOTH DOLL

 

 

This beautiful lady properly sits on a chair in my upper hall.  I found the pattern and directions in a magazine back in the 1980's.  The magazine is gone forever as the way of magazines goes. I made several of them that sold quite well and decided to keep one for myself.  Sadly somehow during our transition from Louisiana to Missouri she was lost.  I searched through all my belongings for several years and finally decided that the only way to recover her was to find the pattern and make a new one. 

As I have always been a seamstress I had several hundred patterns to go through before finally finding her pattern neatly folded and labeled in a white envelope.  I could hardly wait to start making the fabrics come alive in the form of this outstanding Victorian doll.  She is made out of all white fabrics and then painted with craft paints. 

She sits very quietly outside my bedroom in a chair and watches over everything that comes up and down the stairs.  She is not all that old maybe seven or eight years but is a very wise one for her age.

 

Pattern for Painted Victorian Cloth Doll

 

Don't Throw Away Your Old Patterns !