A Little Something Different to Start the Year

I decided to start the year with fun doll sets. These were so much fun to make.

Violet is modeling two sets. Violet is a reproduction doll with a Jenny Lind hairstyle. She stands 18″ tall, while her head measure 8.25″ around. There are three pieces in each set she models. Each trio includes a straw hat, straw and silk workbag, and cotton pocket. The fashionably shapped straw hat is made with straw plait and brown, faux horsehair plait. It is block firm, without wire. The workbag has a straw base and silk bag, which draws closed with a ribbon. The bag is lined but the straw is not. The pocket is cotton in a mid-nineteenth century appropriate print. The pocket is lined with cotton sateen ribbon for the ties.

The final set from today is model by a popular modern doll who also stand 18″ tall with a head measuring approximately 13″ around. She shows off a trio that includes a straw bonnet, silk workbag, and cotton pocket. The bonnet is a high brim straw bonnet appropriatefor the late 1850s through early 1860s. The workbag is silk with pasteboard centers. itnis a style seen through out the century. The pocket is an Heirloom Family Weavers cotton. The pocket is lined with cotton sateen ribbon for the ties.