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Wooden doll family is made from redwood. Patterns for clothing included.
BETTER HOMES & GARDENS Dec 1972 (v.50#12) pg. 62

How to make a wooden Pennsylvania Dutch Doll. Balsa wood body is painted with features and clothing. Arms can move.
BETTER HOMES & GARDENS Dec 1975 (v.53#12) pg. 22, 65

Wooden doll with carved body and jointed arms and legs.
BETTER HOMES & GARDENS Dec 1980 (v.58#12) pg. 42, 70

Diminutive "old-world" dolls are made from wooden beads, coat hangers, batting and fabric scraps.
BETTER HOMES & GARDENS Nov 1983 (v.61#11) pg. 122, 178

Canadian Olympic Champ. Articulated wooden skater (12" tall) is suspended by a top-hat thread. By pulling on a knob, the arms and legs move up and down, jiggling the wooden rings on each.
CANADIAN WORKSHOP Nov 1992 (v.16#2) pg. 43, 51

Country doll with a block body, wooden ball head, curly hair and cloth arms and legs sits on top of an antiqued block with "A" and an apple motif.
CRAFTS Dec 1991 (v.14#12) pg. 35, 47

Valentine dolls. (1) Queen of Hearts uses a 10" plumber's plunger as the body, topped with a 2" wood doll head, and clothed using tissue paper twist. (2) Schoolgirl wood doll is painted, outfitted with a cloth dress and tam, and holds a miniature basket.
CRAFTS Feb 1994 (v.17#2) pg. 12

Folk Dolls. Country cousins boy and girl wooden silhouettes are painted with acrylics and fitted with yarn hair.
CRAFTS Mar 1994 (v.17#3) pg. 29, 55

Bunny tassel doll is made from a wood egg cup, wood bead, shaker pegs, and pink pearl cotton.
CRAFTS Apr 1994 (v.17#4) pg. 78

Small dolls (5" tall) made from wood shapes, spools, and buttons. Use them as Christmas tree decorations.
CRAFTS Aug 1994 (v.17#8) pg. 84

Recycle a beaded car seat. Use the large wooden beads to make a scarecrow doll, necklace, belt for a dress, and trivet.
CRAFTS Oct 1995 (v.18#10) pg. 76

Sweet Miss Pansy. Painted wooden doll that stands on a wooden base is decorated with satin ribbon flowers and bows.
CRAFTS May 1997 (v.20#5) pg. 34

Woody the Clown figure is made by gluing wooden shapes together and painting them.
CRAFTS Jul 1997 (v.20#7) pg. 25, 39

Wooden folk dolls are turned from doweling and have jointed arms and legs.
CREATIVE CRAFTS #68 Apr 1979 (v.6#8) pg. 40

Scandinavian turned dolls. Replicas of the small mythical figures called Tomtes in Sweden. The basic doll is turned on a wood lathe and then decorated with a painted face, hair and clothing.
CREATIVE CRAFTS #72 Dec 1979 (v.6#12) pg. 32

A look at primitive jointed dolls that are carved from wood. Includes pattern and detailed instructions to make a doll as well as a doll dress.
DECORATING & CRAFT IDEAS Apr 1976 (v.6#6) pg. 34

How to paint old bowling pins to look like dolls.
DECORATING & CRAFT IDEAS Sep 1978 (v.9#7) pg. 76

Woody Clown doll is made from a piece of 2x4, an old sock, a ball and colorful fabric.
DOLL DESIGNS Jun-Jul 1990 (v.7#4) pg. 38

Pilgrim dolls. Dress up your Thanksgiving centerpiece with this simple dolls crafted from wood and fabric scraps. Plain (featureless) wood balls are used for the head.
DOLL DESIGNS Oct-Nov 1990 (v.7#6) pg. 37

Carving a wooden doll that features articulated arms and legs joined with wooden pins.
EARLY AMERICAN LIFE Christmas 1995 pg. 46, 51
Correction EARLY AMERICAN LIFE Feb 1996 (v.27#1) pg. 5

Wooden doll has fabric clothes that attach with Velcro strips.
FAMILY CIRCLE Nov 1 1980 (v.93#15) pg. 66, 121

Erin folk dolls and costumes. Dolls, with moveable arms and legs, are carved from balsa wood. Instructions for clothes for both Irish man and woman included.
LADIES HOME JOURNAL NEEDLE & CRAFT Spring-Summer 1979 (v.9#2) pg. 84, 117

English garden dolls. Easy-to-make leaf dolls are created from milinery leaves and wooden beads strung on floral wire.
McCALLS NEEDLEWORK & CRAFTS Fall 1979 (v.24#3) pg. 116, 148

Dolls made from wooden dowels and elastic cord. Their colorful costumes are made from bits and pieces of fabric and trim.
McCALLS NEEDLEWORK & CRAFTS Jan-Feb 1984 (v.29#1) pg. 88, 20

Storybook wooden dolls have movable arms and legs, yarn hair and fabric skirts.
McCALLS NEEDLEWORK & CRAFTS Oct 1988 (v.33#7) pg. 64

How to paint a set of Russian nesting dolls in authentic folkloric babushka head scarves and distinctive dresses.
McCALLS NEEDLEWORK & CRAFTS Feb 1993 (v.39#1) pg. 70, 74

Wooden ballerina doll balances and spins atop a pedestal.
MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED #456 May 1966 (v.62) pg. 113

Knob-head dolls and a dog are made from lengths of closet poles for the bodies, round wooden drawer pulls for the heads and half-round molding for movable arms. Clothing and faces are painted.
SUNSET Dec 1986 (v.177#6) pg. 98

Three tiny wooden dolls to paint in folk-art style suggesting differing styles of dress. Intermediate painting level.
TOLE WORLD #109 Mar-Apr 1991 (v.15#2) pg. 42

A right royal gift. Simple wooden dolls (6"-8" tall) with blank faces represent a royal "Viking" family. They are clothed in fur garments and feature shields, swords, hair and crowns.
WOODTURNING #28 Dec 1994-Jan 1995 pg. 42

Worry doll. A popsicle stick forms the body and a toothpick forms the arms. Yarn and bits of cloth complete this simple 2.5" doll.
WORKBASKET Feb 1990 (v.55#4) pg. 62

Japanese "Kokeshi dolls" are lathe-turned and mounted on a small slab of wood.
WORKBENCH Nov-Dec 1970 (v.26#6) pg. 30

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