Storybook Toys


Book Description

Kindle the imagination with these loveable handmade fabric toys! Inspired by vintage 1940s patterns, projects include dolls, softies, pillows, puppets, and little girl’s handbag. Learn toy-making tips to give your creation personal style and a sweet disposition. Author Jill Hamor gives ideas for involving children in the process to teach them basic sewing skills. Customize any project to fit your skill level and time commitment, and have fun making outfits for your dolly from your favorite fabrics, scraps, or even upcycled bits from old clothes. Share the love of handmade with your whole family…the young and the young at heart!




Easy-to-Make Storybook Dolls


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Bring characters from favorite stories to life with creative stitchery! This unique guide to making cloth dolls offers patterns for Pollyanna, Dorothy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Mary of The Secret Garden, plus assorted clothes, pets, and accessories. Perfect for beginners, the guide includes 263 black-and-white illustrations, an 8-page color insert, plus easy-to-follow instructions.




Favorite Storybook Characters Paper Doll


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Apretty little doll with 8 costumes: for Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," Becky Thatcher of "Tom Sawyer" fame, Alice (in Wonderland), Heidi, Pollyanna, and 3 others."




Nancy Ann Storybook Dolls


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A photographic identification and dating reference to these miniature porcelain/plastic American dolls of the 1930s thru 1950s. Featured are 493 photographs in b/w and color. Now in its 8th big printing. A new index makes finding information much easier!




The Dolls' Clothes Storybook Collection


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Ten much-loved characters taken from classic stories and fairytales have inspired this delightful collection of dolls' clothes. The author's eye for detail and concern for period accuracy reproduced in miniature make this collection of clothes to sew particularly rewarding for any doll collector.




The Paper Dolls


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The breathtakingly beautiful story of one little girl and her five paper dolls.




Sew the Storybook Wardrobe for 18-Inch Dolls


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Complete instructions and full-size patterns (in pocket) for more than 25 outfits & settings to make clothing for 18-inch dolls from the stories: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz, Hansel & Gretel, Alice in Wonderland, and Goldilocks & the Three Bears.




Sesame Street When I Grow Up Book and Magnet Set


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Elmo and his friends think it's great fun to imagine what jobs they would like as grownups. Case contains two magnetic Elmo and Zoe figures to dress with twelve different occupation-appropriate outfits and ten play scenes that serve as backdrops for imaginative play.




Storybook Crochet


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Black Dolls


Book Description

Collectors and non-collectors will experience the passion for collecting dolls in Ms. Garrett's second, FULL COLOR, black-doll reference book, which is a comprehensive celebration with up-to-date values of over 1000 vintage-to-modern black dolls. Doll genres celebrated, referenced, and valued include early dolls and memorabilia, cloth, fashion, manufactured, artist, one-of-a-kind, celebrity, and paper dolls. `A to Z Tips on Collecting,¿ `Doll Creativity,¿ and loads of `Added Extras¿ will entertain, enlighten, excite, and encourage the most discriminating collector. Readers will experience five years of the author's continuous and extensive doll research combined with nearly 20 years of doll-collecting experience. Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion, is an informative, must-have reference for any doll collector¿s library.