wow two new posts in one day

Whooo

two posts in one day, how did that happen?

anyway.... 

new items in https://www.etsy.com/shop/TLCollectibles

Etsy shop Terry's Little Critters reopening

Announcing!

Terry's little Critters etsy shop has reopened.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Terryslilcritters

with handmade dolls, animals and clothes and accessories.

and in addition

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TLCollectibles 

is still open to sell Hummel and other collectibles

New Endeavor

Well I am undertaking a new endeavor to help out a friend of my sister.

I am transforming my former etsy shop "Terry's little Critters" into "Terry's Little Collectibles" 

https://www.etsy.com/your/shops/TLCollectibles

and listing Hummel figurines now, and  possibly other items later.

Stop by and check them out.

hmm long time no see

Sorry I have not been posting here lately.

Here is what I have done most recently

 Here is what it looks like inside

 This is who lives inside.

 This is her front

These are her Fairy wings in  back

More Patsyette wardrobe

Here is more of the Patsyettes' wardrobe:

 

Dress 3 with blue crocheted lace neckline and cap

Dress 4 (lavender) with white crocheted lace

Pedal Pusher outfit

 

 White socks

 blue socks

 

 Black shoes

  

 White shoes

 Pink and white slippers

 Little girls in their suitcase

 little girls in their suitcase with a glimpse of the Grandmother's flower garden quilt beneath them.

That is all for  now but there will be more to come.

My Patsyette project update

All right. I am having so much fun with these little girls. 

Here is what they looked like cleaned up and restrung

 In their little undies

In dress 1 with yellow socks and white shoes

 

 dress 2  with white socks and black shoes

pajamas with pink and white slippers

 pajamas with robe and slippers

Now, there is much more. 

Would you like to see it all at once or should I space it out over several days?

my new project

Two little girls from the 1930's have come to my house. One is a Patsyette and her adopted sister is a Patsyette lookalike. I had to do some restringing and cleaning on them and now I am working on a 1930's wardrobe for both of them. Here is what they looked like when I got them.

 my Patsyette

Patsyette lookalike

the Patsyette is 9 inches tall and her sister is 9.25 tall. 

I have copies of some 1930's patterns for Patsyette and some reproduction 1930's print fabrics so I can make them clothes that look authentic. 

I am knitting them tiny socks and making shoes too. 

I will be adding pictures soon.

Lace

I am hoping someone can help  me find some information about this lace. It is made with metallic thread and is a "tape" type lace. Anyone know how I can tell how old it is, what metal the thread is covered in and how I would clean and conserve it? 

It is actually a lace fan

detail of the tape and the edge

 

detail of the needle lace between the tape motifs

Sophie

This is Sophie

 She is a china head doll. She is unusual in that she has a toddler type cloth body. All told she is 27 inches tall (the head is about 7 inches tall).

she is from the end of the 1800s and is dressed in a fine cotton and lace baby dress and slip that probably belonged to a real child at some time. Her body is of cotton sateen and her hands are of leather, or should I say hand, as her left hand and arm appear to have been chewed of by a small dog or something similar, at some point in time. The dress and slip were also chewed and had holes and stains in them from the chewing.
The left sleeve was almost totally destroyed.

I cleaned the dress and then stabilized the fabric and lace on similar light cotton fabric and net and now she is dressed again.

 

Little Angel and some vintage goodies

Here is a little Angel that was a special order. She is 5 inches tall and getting into the holiday mode.

also here are some vintage lace edged hankies that I found on a

 recent trip to an antique store.

Little Samore is up on Etsy now

yep here she is
https://www.etsy.com/listing/110391865/little-samore-the-marshmallow-chocolate

Little Samore, a marshmallow and chocolate fairy

Here is my next little critter.

Her name is Little Samore and she is a marshmallow and chocolate fairy.

She is 5 inches tall and is entirely hand sewn and hand knitted and will be in my Etsy shop soon.

Little Mary Ida is on Etsy!!!

I did it. I finally got her all ready and on Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/108552876/little-mary-ida
I hope you all like her.

Back

Well due to family stuff I haven't been on here lately. Other projects were put in abeyance also, but I am back. Little Mary Ida will be on Etsy soon. Here are a couple of pictures of her to pique your interest.

I will let everyone know when she is up on Etsy.

Introducing: Little Mary Ida

Here is my 5 inch Waldorf style doll, Little Mary Ida, in her jammies.

 and here is her little twin set, skirt and blue suede shoes.

I am working on more outfits for her before she goes into my etsy shop.

I will post them here also.

 and here is some lace I have been working on in a nice butter yellow size 30 DMC Cebelia cotton thread, on 5/0 (1 mm) steel needles

Lace

Here is a little project I have been working on. I try to recreate lace that I see in photographs of old things. In this case it was on the clothing of an old doll.

My recreation of the knitted lace,

it is knitted in size 30 DMC Cebelia cotton on size 

on 6/0 (000000) (0.7mm) steel needles

 from this photo ( the lace in the photo may be of smaller thread) I don't have a scale for this lace.

(I have lost the information on the photo of the old doll so if anyone recognizes it could you please contact me so that I can acknowledge the person who took the photo? )