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Show Home Made Dolls For Young and Old By RUTH WYETH SPEARS THIS Christmas it is not just the children who will receive dolls as gifts. Doll collecting is becom-ing becom-ing a popular hobby for grownups. grown-ups. You will enjoy making tha one shown here. Book 2 offered herewith also offers many suggestions sugges-tions for making and dressing dolls from scraps of materials. If you want to make the stocking stock-ing doll, clip these directions and keep them as this doll is not in. f iJltusE YARN FOR jK CUTElCUT2 HAIR, FACE, JjAjift LEG 3 ARM SWEATER TRIM pjT : PIECES IKESUndsOCKTOPS jWLuV)! T SWEATER PIECE - ii CUT FROM feU3 I SfoCMING TOP . jir mereJ WT SI2E 9 TAN 1 STUffl f' f STOCKINS I U BODY 1NY)I 1 THEN J either of the books offered here. The head and body are made of the foot of the stocking cut off where the heel begins, as shown. Stuff this part with cotton or bits of soft clean rags, sew across the bottom and then wind a thread around so that the toes of the stocking will form the head. Fold the leg and arm pieces lengthwise, stitch, turn and then stuff. Wrap thread around to make divisions for hands and feet. Sew the legs to the body, then add the skirt. The arms are sewn on top of the sweater piece and the sweater collar col-lar is turned down over this sewing. sew-ing. NOTE: Mrs. Spears' Book 2 Gifts, Novelties and Embroidery, has helped thousands of women to use odds and ends of materials and their spare time to make things to sell and to use. Book 1 Sewing for the Home Decorator is full of inspiration for every homemaker. These books make delightful Christmas gifts. Mrs. Spears will autograph them on request. Crazypatch quilt leaflet is included "free with every order for both books. Address: Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, Chi-cago, 111. |