#1 : Body made from a straw coloured Phentex braid, Phentex hair, cotton outfit.
#2 : Store-bought pattern, size 4 years old.
#3 : Body made from a braid of flesh coloured Phentex, nylon dress, crepe coat and hat, Phentex hair.
#4 : Cotton doll with button nose; velvet dress and hat made from old lampshade.
#5 : Same body as #4, with clothes taken from the fabric of an old velvet skirt, and white shirt with cotton lace. The lace was already sown in place; I just cut the material down to size.
#6 : Body and shirt in cotton, lined vest in lining satin, skirt taken from an old pillow cover embroidered in cross stitch (my mom did it before she wed).
#7 : Same pattern as #6 dresses with polyester and lace.
#8 : Pink cotton body, polyester dress made in a T shape, with strips of printed cotton and border lace sown onto it. The bonnet, sown into place hides a bald head. It's done from a circle a third larger than the head, and bordered by the same border lace as the dress (in white). Wool hair has been added afterwards. Face is embroidered.
#9 : Ragdoll ballerina on a flowered coat hanger.
#10 : Knit doll made on loom 16 pegs, in Olefin polyester yarn (Phentex).
#11 : Head made separately to give her a chin. Cotton body, Phentex hair, polyester dress.
#12 : Body made from commercial pattern, nylon dress, woolen hair.
#13 : Mouse cover. The doll was added after the cover was sown, then the "blanket" was added and sown in place. The doll is lying on her belly with her head half turned and one arm up. A corner of the blanket can be lifted, everything else is sown in place. Cotton cover and blanket, stretch cotton for doll, real wool for hair.
#14-15-16-17-18 : 6 inch tall dolls filled with polyester, dressed in cotton or polyester, with wool hair.
#19-20 : Dolls about 5 inch tall, made with big plastic beads mounted on wire to look like puppets.
#21 : Cotton body, white polyester clothes with cotton print inserts in the skirt.
#22 : Doll made from pictures of singer from rock group Twisted Sister. Beige nylon body with polyester filling, embroidered face. It stands 4 feet high. The 'wig' is made from worsted weight fiber, un-twisted after it's been sown in place. A tube has been inserted in the neck to make the head stand upright. Costume made from nylon with a key ring to hold the chest straps.
#23 : Adult-size doll (5' 2'') wearing woman size 7 clothes. She's filled with scraps of fabric, and weights about 9 pounds. Embroidered face, synthetic fiber wig. I drawn the pattern of the doll around my own body onto a large paper on the floor. To make the neck stand upright, I had to put in a plastic tube about 4 feet long.
#24 : Washable polyester-filled dolls. White cotton body, with clothes sown in place, polyester for the small one, fleece for the tall one. Hair is done with old pantyhose, sown in small loops.
#25 : Kntting doll complete with knit in hand, needles are in fact round toothpicks with a bead glued to one end.
#26 : Cotton dolls filled with unprocessed cotton. Clothes made from embroidered pillow covers and old shirts Both sitting dolls have hair made from loops of pantyhose nylon. See #6 for the middle one.