Guest Author - Susan Kramer

These photos show some creative examples of brightly colored fabric dolls and animals in shop windows in northern Europe.

Hope you enjoy this eye candy!

The pigs in the first example are made of cotton fabric.



The dolls in the photo below are felt and cotton fabric; displayed as mobiles. This is a way to display small fabric or lightweight dolls.



Another thing I like about these photos is that by looking at the reflection in the windows you can see some of the architectural features of the buildings opposite the shops.

Photo credits Stan Schaap

Links to some fun projects on the Doll Making Site

Flying Feather Quilt Pattern for All Your Dolls
Make an Easy Wooden Doll House
Make a Costume for a Girl Bunny
Make Dancer Paper Dolls
Tutorial - How to Soft Sculpture Cloth or Fabric Dolls
Doll Making Postcards
Paper and Virtual Dolls

Charity Note:
I'd like to suggest that if you spend time making doll clothes, anyway, that you collect a few dolls from friends and neighbors and sew a wardrobe or a complete outfit for each doll. Then donate the doll in the completed outfit to a charity that distributes used dolls and toys to kids that otherwise would not have any. When I was a little girl, nothing brightened up my face more than my mother making me a new outfit for my doll.