Cloth Doll Patterns by
Slightly Weathered Ladies
and More
by Jill Maas

Eloise is about 14" (35cm) tall, or sits at about 8 1/2" (25 cm.)

Her body is doll velour and Tibetan Lambs Wool is used for the pictured dolls hair.  To make the dungarees you can use your old thin denim jeans. Elosie's boots are felt.

The pattern is well designed and written.  The doll has been made and tested by many in live workshops with Jill. 

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Eloise loves riding escalators, dancing down the esplanade at sunset, and enjoying enormous friendly furry animals and kickboxing, but her main wish is that she could teleport herself to anywhere in the world to see her friends.

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An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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"Natalie" is a cute little doll that stands about 10" (25cm) tall.

She comes complete with her little rabbit called Cream Puff.

An ideal Christmas project!

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Natalie is a happy wee soul with a dual role, part Christmas fairy and part elf, she is extremely kind but very cheeky.

She loves to spread lots of joy, popping treats in mailboxes, dancing for her grandparents and playing tricks on her uncles.

Her little rabbit Cream Puff is her constant companion, they decorate the Christmas tree together, put the snaps in crackers, wrap presents, pick berries, paint toadstools and feed reindeer.

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An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Queen of Shopping

"Queen of Shopping" is about 12 inches (30 cm) tall above her wooden stand. She is designed to celebrate her shopping trip by swaying in the breeze - she has a wire holding her on her base.

Pattern comes with detailed instructions and illustrations.

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Queenie has a diploma in shopping, she has been personal shopper to one of the wealthiest women in New Plymouth …..according to the census. She knows all the best buys, all the shops with hidden treasures down narrow back streets, even the available parking spaces. When Queenie is not shopping, she spends her time busking outside the local Bank.

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An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Astrid is an 18 inches (45 cm) tall witch pattern.

She is designed to 'dance' or sway in the breeze with a wire holding her on her base.

Pattern comes with detailed instructions and illustrations.

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Astrid dances with her friends on moonless nights, deep in the forest to the sound of beating drums, croaking toads, hooting owls and barking dogs.

Always a joyous occasion. their squeals of laughter can be heard by sisterhood in Wales, some of them whom will, 'broom' over to join in. A marvelous gathering of the weird and wonderful and a night to remember for the tramper that strayed off the beaten track!

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An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Pattie is in her element relaxing in her 'Gravy Boat' and being pampered by her awesome boyfriend.

She is about 9 1/2" (25cm) long x 8" (20cm) tall

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Pattie is a talented pianist and tap dancer, she has played and danced in many famous concert halls, even entertaining King Charles III (when he was still the Prince of Wales) during a tour of Portugal.

During the down season she retreats to her Spanish bungalow on the coast to relax, swimming, reading and supporting local cafes.

Pattie has an awesome boyfriend who keeps her supplied with sunscreen and hair dye

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An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Autumn stands approx 15" tall (40cm).

She is made out of cotton  fabrics which is different from my other designs but I'm thrilled with the result! I'm sure you will enjoy making her too

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Autumn lives in a small village near the sea, she loves building sandcastles, chasing seagulls, fishing and reading books about sea cucumbers

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An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Alisa Brown is the cutest little bear! Sitting 9" tall feel free to make Alisa your own.

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Alisa Brown, well known owner of many racehorses in her lifetime, the most famous being 'Cedric Fast Fellow' who won the Hawera Cup in 1949.

Upon retiring and moving to Venice she realised there were no available stables, however with a little help from a taxidermist Alisa was able to design her canal boat with a nod to her past, she named it 'Cedric'.

Alisa travels the waterways in 'Cedric' shopping, fishing, dining, visiting art galleries, all the while closely following the racing bulletin, placing her daily bets and singing opera.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Create Your Own Bear and Story! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Joylene is one of Jill's early designs, and has only ever been taught in classes in AU and NZ..

She looks great in any skin color, hair color and stunning in bright clothing.

Students have made her into an opera singer, chef, barmaid, racehorse trainer, blonde bomb shell, concert pianist, a stunning redhead, a pirate, even the Queen and many, many more. She has so much attitude.

Joylene has been Jill's most favorite pattern ever to teach, everyone achieved great results, with quite a few laughs along the journey.

Joylene is the inspiration for Jill's business name of Slightly Weathered Ladies.

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Jill has a fun pattern for you of cheeky bird heads to decorate your walls.

Dayton(beak)and Bonnie (duck bill) are approximately 8" to the end of their beaks and 4 1/2" wide. (20cm x 14cm)

They are fun to make and you are free to use your own creativity with heaps of choices to make original birds using different fabrics and adding extras to suit.

Make yourself a flock! Have Fun!

Dayton's and Bonnie's Story:

Dayton is of exotic breeding, parents being of eagle/ fantail descent, causing Dayton to be blessed with discernment, free will, friendship, innovation and amazing flexibility when flying and spotting prey.

Bonnie is an ancient breed of duck that has evolved over the years, becoming extremely wise, slightly fashionable, well disposed and direct in expressing her views.

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The Newest Pattern by Jill Maas and as usual an amazing original design.

Leo stands about 14" (36 cm) tall while his 'friendly' crocodile is 19" (50 cm) long.

Leo's Story:

Leo lives on a farm in the outback near a river, it's a 10 hour drive in the old Toyota to the city. He travels there twice a year to buy a donut, see a movie and fill the truck with petrol.

He met Queenie when swimming a couple of years ago and they became good buddies, often spending their afternoons walking along the river bank, Leo throws sticks into the water and Queenie retrieves them. Sometimes, for a change, Leo takes Queenie to the travelling carnival, they ride the dodgems, eat candy floss, check out the coloured lights and return home happy, stomachs full and tired bodies.

Sometimes people are a little scared of Queenie but she only eats really mean bullies!

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Everyone needs an Emma and Pandora in their doll collection and with Jill's clear and detailed instructions/pattern you can make your own beautiful display.

Emma sits about 12 inches (31 cm) high. She is sitting with her pet pig, Pandora.

Emma's Story:

Emma loves her little 'bacon seed' Pandora, they live on a small lifestyle block with 2 cows and 4 hens North West of Taihape . Pandora has her own bed by the fireplace, (it did belong to old Jip, and still has a slight doggie smell) but she loves it there and feels secure in the knowledge that Jip died of old age.

Emma and Pandora often read thrillers together at midnight, actually Emma does the reading, Pandora's slightly scared witless, but comforted by Emma's warm hands, wool skirt and droning voice, ....although it's very hard to sleep when Emma finally closes the book and goes upstairs to bed, that's when she dreams of Jip and lets the hens in the back door to share her bed.

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Jill calls Molly a real stunner! This is a must make design! Molly sits at 10" (25cm). The pattern is easy to follow with very clear instructions and many diagrams on constructing this beautiful doll.

Molly's Story:

Molly's parents own a mobile home, they travel often, spending the summers in France and the winters in Spain. Molly speaks 4 languages, slips easily into new places, she keeps journals of her travels and loves seeing and documenting the different wildlife, particularly the birds.

Every morning Molly takes her dog Chester for long walk through the village before she settles down to her school work, she loves reading, maths and singing.

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Designed by JILL MAAS, 15" seated Irene Mary comes from Irish ancestry and loves crazy hats. She drives her own party bus and often takes her friends to far away places where they dance in the moonlight and tell ghost stories till dawn.

Irene is known for her kind heart, she rescues small animals, works part time in a coffee cart, the rest of her day is spent making wooden chairs out of pallets and selling them at the River Traders market.

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Daphne Duck stands about 17" (45 cm) tall and is ready to take off to your home right now!

Unique design and fun to make!!

Daphne is an extremely rare breed of cardigan duck found only on the mud flats of the Whanganui river. She uses her twisted aerial brain waves to connect with the moon which in turn sends down dance rhythms enabling her to make exotic patterns in the mud. Many people don't know this!

Daphne earns her living as a 'decoy' during the duck shooting season, a job that ensures generous amounts of danger money which she spends on cardigans

On Original Design by Jill Maas!

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Flint is an old gardener from Waverley, New Zealand.
He grows all his own vegetables, knows everything about compost, seeds, slugs and planting times.

Flint swaps his produce for cakes made by Molly who lives next door, grows pumpkins for the pumpkin competition and always has a spare carrot for the local neighbourhood rabbit, Roger

Flint stands about 40 cm/16 in tall.

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Another Beautiful Original Design by Jill Maas!

Donatella's Story:

Donatella lives on a small sheep farm near a tiny village close to the forest.

Her favorite subject is mathematics, when she grows up she wants to be a mathematician and work in the financial center of New York, until then she spends her time counting everything,
(yes everything!) putting them into groups of form, size, relationships, symbols and quantities. If she sees it, she organizes and counts it!

This is no mean feat for her very patient flock of sheep who get herded around the farm and in and out of the yards several times a day.

Donatella belongs to the village children's choir, they often sing together in the forest pick wild flowers for their mothers and aunties and gather nuts from old walnut trees, of course she always counts these and makes sure there are 25 of the same size to take home.

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Fun and easy to make!

Great for gifts or just conversation pieces around the house, sewing room or office.

Jabbas' Story...

Jabbas are noxious nocturnal near sighted birds intent on
causing nightmares by their non-stop noise created by eating
heated noodles in the nude at midnight

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Gracie, free spirited, full of myths, legends, fantasy and fun. A magnificent storyteller with whirlwind of talent and an extremely tender heart for animals.

Gracie stands about 17″ (42 cm) tall. She is a 'stump doll' and is easy to make as she has no legs or arms!

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Poppy sits at about 10″ (25 cm) tall and looks great made from a tan colored fabric but any color of your choice will be just fine!

Poppy's Story:

Poppy is into music, several of her original songs have gone 'gold' she has performed at the Royal Opera House and in Carnegie Hall, rumor has it that she danced with a Prince at the party afterwards! Just for fun she loves busking around Europe in the Summer, often getting the children watching to dance and sing with her.

Poppy rides a 1100cc Harley, enjoys pigeon racing, reads historical novels, decorates old castles and plays touch rugby on Thursday nights.

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Ettie is another beautiful design by Jill!

She stands about 17″ (44cm) tall. She is so fun to make and you will want to show her off to all your friends.

Ettie's Story:

Ettie has a strong personally, she is not easily intimidated or afraid to stand up for herself and others, her kindness and understanding makes her a loyal friend but she finds it hard to tolerate frivolous shallow people.

Ettie is an amazing violinist, travelling the world with her music, at times playing with a full
orchestra, at other times busking in the street, her talent has opened many doors, both humble and grand.

Ettie's dad taught her that girls can do anything!

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Beautiful 7" girl with a cute wee nose attached separately and sculpted lips and toes. Clothes not included, she is pictured in a simple wrap. You dress her however you like!

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Sofia is another beautiful design by New Zealand artist Jill Maas!

Sofia (7 years old) stands just over 10″ (26cm) tall and she just loves elephants especially her favorite pet George.   Pattern for George, the elephant, is also included.

Sofia's Story:

Sofia is devoted to learning about elephants, here are some of the facts she has learnt. Baby elephants weigh about 260 pounds at birth, one adult tooth can weigh 5 pounds.
Elephants can't jump, trot or gallop, but can swim using their trunk as a snorkel.

They can suck up 14 litres of water in their trunk and then blow it straight into their mouth. They eat about 50 tons of food a year.

The reason they spray mud over themselves when bathing is because it acts as a sunscreen when it dries.

Female elephants spend their lifetime living with their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and daughters, the adult males prefer a bachelor lifestyle.

Their trunks are very sensitive and can pick up a blade of grass or rip a branch off a tree.
Sofia plans to go to South Africa and Asia when she has saved enough money to see elephants in their natural habitat.

Meanwhile she sleeps with George every night.

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Augustine is another fun design by Jill!

Augustine stands about 18″ (45 cm) tall and true delight to make.  She makes a wonderful conversational piece and the perfect gift!

Augustines Story:

Augustine was born on an extremely cold, wet, windy night about 5 past 12 and immediately blown across the padlock through the fence and into the pig pen. Stuck in the mud and unsteady on her feet she was unable to make her way back to her clucking mother who ran around in worrying circles for a whole 5 minutes and didn’t lay another egg for a fortnight!

Augustine was nurtured by a small pink piglet for 3 days eating only slush until her roving father spotted her.

As you can imagine the confusion of these dramatic events in her early life has caused Augustine to become slightly erratic, rebellious and allergic to bacon –  apart from that she is completely normal, has a happy life near the sea, although she never swims in water above her knees.

An Original Design by Jill Maas of 'Slightly Weathered Ladies' And More™"

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Designed by JILL MAAS, this plucky 16" beauty Danika, (meaning morning star) comes from Taumaranui where her Grandparents settled after immigrating to New Zealand. She was brought up on a sheep station where she mustered sheep on horseback and bagged manure for pocket money.

Locally she is known as 'the marchioness' possibly as her advice is given freely and she has quite a strong disposition, but she also has a large degree of kindness and is a hard worker.

Rocco, (of very questionable breeding) was found marauding at her boundary fence, she fell in love with his cute face, adopted him, registered him, micro chipped him and he had a small operation, (he's not quite forgiven her for that! but they have become constant companions, he protects her from wild beasts and only does trivial misdeeds when he feels ignored.)

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Ratty stands about 12" (30 cm) tall. Fun to make and a great gift for that someone!

An Original Design by Jill Maas!

Ratty's Story:

Ratty was born in the Wairarapa quite a while ago, he has many siblings and has succeeded in creating over a hundred children,

Many of which have lived with a lot of discrimination and misunderstanding from the human race.

Luckily Ratty was adopted by a kind philanthropist in his old age and now spends his time painting, eating peanut butter sandwiches and dancing like Fred Astaire.

Ratty's favourite time of day is going to bed, he has his own wallpapered and soft fabric lined cardboard box at the foot of his benefactors bed.

Ratty has a secret past life that occasionally gives him nightmares.

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Here is Denise, with her string of hearts, a little 'stocky' 12" lady, full of love mixed
with a little mischief. Some would consider her to be slightly 'outside ' respectable society, but it's a very difficult job working out which wishes to grant and which wishes to ignore and Denise always aims to please! Full of character a fairly easy doll designed by JILL MAAS to make and enjoy!

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This awesome 14" canine designed by JILL MAAS works up beautifully with very textured wool. You may find an old garment that would be just the ticket. He has a weighted bottom for excellent posture. And as with all of JILL'S patterns he is very fun to make.

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Mr Hare is similar to make up like Douglas Dog, we make up the base/ body, he is wired inside stuffed and then the fun begins, all the small scrapes of different fabrics are frayed and sewn on all over the hare shape with strong black thread, it's so much fun, a bit of a challenge but once you get into the swing of it you'll find you create a piece that is entirely original. You will learn how to use the fabrics to shade and shape him. It's a bit messy, threads everywhere!

He stands about 19″ (48cm) tall.

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Delightful 10" pindolls with loads of attitude.

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Have fun making this delightful 16" bird lover and her friends Betty Finch and Petunia Parrot. Knit tubes are stuffed with chenille stems to form the nest-like arrangement on top of her head.

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This little 10" lady with huge charm stands alone carrying a little tray with a cupcake complete with icing and a cherry.

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With her pointed elfin ears, turned up boots and gorgeous wings, this impish 13" fairy is ready to wing her way into your heart. She will look darling in any color combination you choose.

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A little bit of lycra, designer scuffs and a hat to shade her from the sun will produce this 11" bathing beauty with twinkly eyes!

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With his toothy smile and his small flock of prize winning breeding sheep, this 14" fellow is a real charmer.

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Standing about 20" tall, these slender best friends are full of attitude and flair. Just think what a super girlfriend birthday present they would be!

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Inspired by a bunch of beautiful tulips bought at a local market, this 14" cutie holding her very own bug has a bulb shaped hat with wool fibers as roots and a dress shaped at the hem to represent the flower.

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Slightly retro, sassy, sexy, curvy and upbeat she stands about 18-1/2" tall. Her dress, which is part of her body, is complemented with a little crop jacket and high heels to show off her shapely legs.

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This 17" sweetie is so comfy in her boots, striped stockings, woolen jacket and warm hat.

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Because they are weighted in the base you are able to pose these delightful 12" creatures leaning forward, back or to the side, which makes them look as though they are moving. FUN, FUN, FUN!!!

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This wiry, slightly eccentric 16" lovable gal whose first love in life is fishing, comes with her 'catch of the day', even to the extent of the largest fish gutted and worn as a hat, (or for those a little squeamish, there is also a little knitted hat pattern included.

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A little exotic with her gorgeous red hair, tiny waist, dreamy eyes and high
boots, everybody's darling, this 12" beauty is ready to party or just lounge around
chatting with her loyal dog Nelson by her side. (Couch Pattern Available Below.)

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Measuring 13" wide and 6" high this great couch has a basic structure of heavy cardboard that can be covered in cotton, upholstery fabric or even a short fur.

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These four little 6" character critters are easy to make and as cute as can be.

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“Flash Bears” are cute, easy to make and stand about 7” tall (19 cm) on their own.

These little bears are best made out of scraps of woolen fabric, although you can use whatever fabric you like to get a different look. Also you can easily make the bear into a female by giving the bear a little skirt and sewing a bow onto her head. 

Jill Maas, the designer, also sewed some darling stitches in different places to give him an aged look.

An Original Design by Jill Maas!

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This slightly weathered 19" housemaid with an interestingly aged body stands unaided in her sensible shoes.

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What fun you'll have making these little 4.5" cuties from a variety of scraps. Full instructions for the knitted hat and scarf are included.

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This little fellow, designed by Jill Maas, was made to cheer up a friend going through a patch of 'rough'. He looks great in Christmas colors too, sitting on the mantelpiece to cheer your friends. Happy Harry is about 10″ (25cm) high. His round base is weighted and he carries a little beaded heart.

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This slim 16-1/2" stumpdoll is the perfect project for those who like to personalize their work using their small precious scraps of silks, laces, braids, threads and beads.

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A variety of color coordinated beads are used with striking effect on this lovely pindoll.

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Bits of feathers, fur, lace, beads and a petal skirt adorn this 12" beauty who likes to think of herself as a "Goth Chick" much to her Mum's dismay!

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