Pam and my excellent day out

Yesterday Pam and I went to Cortland, OH and we went to a fabulous shop, Quilter's Fancy. This is absolutely the best shop around for trims, charms, and buttons.

I got some great printed fabric, some cotton and metallic fabric, some beautiful fabric from London(the blue and beige pic) to make Gather ye Rosebuds and lots and lots of trims. This pic is the flower and leaf trims. I also got tiny ric-rac, velvet ric-rac, and others. I got some silk ribbons, charms and other things. It was such a fun day, beside the fact that I love shopping, it was a nice drive out there and after shopping we had lunch. We forgot to pick strawberries that we had seen a sign for, oh well. Quilter's Fancy is about 45 minutes east of my home and then Pam lives about 30-40 minutes south of my home, so she had quite a drive. Hopefully in the next year you will see some dolls made with these fabrics, there's always hope and good intentions.

New Dolls

I can't believe it's been a month since I've written anything. Either I've been busy or haven't much to say. I have made a few dolls and I'll add their pictures here.

Today I received my dotee dolls from the swap I participated in on Doll Street. They are adorable and I will cherish them.

The duck "quacks" me up, ha ha - couldn't resist.

The duck was made by Shirley Nieminen from OR. and the center doll was made by Kat Tyni from MI. Unfortunately the pink one didn't have a name tag but pink is my favorite color!

I've made a couple of dolls this past month, I think I will enter them in the Ohio State Fair which is the end of July. One is a rag doll from a Patti Culea pattern. The doll was simple but her clothes were a little involved. I enjoyed making her so much. I named her Dolly because after I applied her hair it was so big and curly she reminded me of Dolly Parton - so I had to give her a headband. After all she is a little girl. The second doll is Ruby Valentino from a pattern by Cindee Moyer. I just love her designs.

I am working on another doll for our Christmas in July doll swap at NO RULES. She is coming along nicely and I want to make another for myself. I can't show the picture until after we have exchanged the dolls. That will be a lot of fun.

Boy, I also have to make my Santa for the fabric swap from the Santa Studio on Cloth Doll Artistry. As if belonging to 2 doll clubs, one of which is putting on a Gala next May and I'm on a committee, and 3 online doll clubs wasn't enough, this week I joined another online group to make comfort dolls. It is such a worthy cause and the dolls are so small, but what am I thinking??

Well that's all for today. I really have to keep up with my posts.

AFIC

Yesterday I went to AFIC with Rosemarie, her husband Don and my husband Ed. It was fabulous! We got there around noon so while they were out of class I got to see a lot of friends and people I haven't seen for a while. I got to see Jan Anzlovar from CO who I met at MM&M a year ago and have stayed in touch with. What a sweet lady. I saw Pam and Dot and from the Doll Gatherers I saw Peggy and Judy. And I saw Barbara Schoenoff, what a sweetheart she is! And while looking at the doll display I ran into Judy Skeel and also talked with many of the doll makers and artists. It was such a great day.
The doll display was beyond fabulous. I was so taken with the dolls that I forgot to take a lot of pictures. And the worst thing was the camera was right in my hand! I did get pictures of the Doll Street display. Judy Skeel suggested the challenge and handled it all. The display was fabulous.

I got a picture of Dot's doll that won first place. She does such beautiful work. Dot, sorry the picture isn't great.

Unfortunately along with a lot of other dolls, I didn't get any pictures of the Doll Gatherers display, which is one of my doll clubs. I'm sure a lot of other people did though.

It was a great day.