Patience throws a party

My Walker dolls will be show offs this next Monday.  Patience and Hannah are preening and posing in a glorious early Queen Ann arm chair which wears it's full paint history, the fabulous old blue over red.  They are sitting with a spoon head doll I made close to 30 years ago.  The beautiful doll quilt is the work of Johnetta B. and a gift to me from friend Penny. 

The Brass Bells (Bell Ringers Antique Study Society), a sub group of The Bell Ringers, will be meeting here on Monday.   I have chosen children's things  for us to show and tell, which will not surprise anyone.   As part of a collection of antique dolls, the possibilities for sub collections are almost endless.  I could show a group of early doll aprons or tiny stockings, or bonnets or doll quilts, you can see how this could lead on to domestic chaos and financial ruin.  I will show doll size hooked rugs I have made for my dolls. The next one I hope to make is the Rooster rug in miniature.

Pictures show some dear little stockings hanging above the Buck's junior cook stove. To one side is a sampler made for my dolls by a treasured friend Melanie.  Melanie thanks again, I think of you  every time my eye goes by this.   E