Clothespin dolls how to make

About a month ago my nieces came over for a visit. The weather was cold so we stayed inside and Anne and I showed them how we make our clothespin dolls. Clothespin dolls have been around forever so it's fun to show the girls these toys and think about people making them long ago too. […]

This is semi-dollhouse miniature related. I made clothespin dolls as part of a "Doll Dialogue" at the recent Kansas State Doll Day for my do...

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Clothespin dolls have a long and interesting history, being immensely popular after the civil war, serving as a great source of income. To enhance your home décor, you can make …

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Clothespins crafts are fun, inexpensive and produce results that kids will be proud of. Today we have found 7 new wooden clothespin kids crafts to keep kids busy. This expands on our popular 7 Fun Kids Clothespin Crafts article so if you finish these 7 clothespin crafts then why not head over there and

Until I started working on my book Making Peg Dolls, I didn't give much thought to the fact that the little wooden doll bases I had been using were directly descended from clothes pegs. If one saws the legs from a vintage clothespeg (pardon the suggestion of such brutality) one is left with a small, free-standing doll base -- closely akin to the ones I use to create my dolls. And so, of course, when writing a book on peg dolls, I did not want to neglect mentioning their origins, nor miss the…

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