Half dolls

I've got a thing for pincushion dolls...especially the Marie Antoinette and Madame Pompadour ones. Can I tell who's who? Nope. I just love them all. I decided last year that friends and family I love needed to share in my wealth of these beauties, instead of them being squirreled away in the cardboard box - after all, I bought them for that very purpose. AND, for some reason, I kept running into the same doll, over and over...and worse yet, BOUGHT HER, over and over. SO...starting two…

PINCUSHION DOLLS are called “cross-over collectibles” as several categories of collectors treasure them from vintage and miniature dolls, to antique pincushions, and other categories. O…

Having just finished a half doll, I decided that for this one I will try to show you how to make one my versions of a pin cushion doll. Since I never expect to use pins in mine, I will use only Polyfil as the stuffing. Please be sure to use a stuffing that is kind to your pins and needles should you decide to use it as a true pin cushion. I also do not intend to make this firmly stuffed as I’d like the skirt to hang more loosely. To make it stiff enough to hold up, I added a dowel up the…

A friend recently sent me this half-doll pincushion to repair. Her skirt is in bad shape. I began by removing her waist band. You can see the stitching holding the skirt tight to the porcelain. Careful snipping (tweezers came in handy), I was able to remove the stiff cotton threads holding the pleats and stitching them tightly to the doll body. (some of the threads are shown bottom left). The skirt was a bluish pink. The fill was wood shreds--which makes me think she originally wasn't a pin…

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I've got a thing for pincushion dolls...especially the Marie Antoinette and Madame Pompadour ones. Can I tell who's who? Nope. I just ...

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Sitzendorf produced a large number of beautiful half dolls and half doll related figurines like bathing beauties, powder boxes, flower frogs, half doll heads (pin cushion handles) etc. This post will show you some beauties made by Sitzendorfer Porcelain Manufactory in c. 1920 - 1930.

~ Borrowing from a facebook post I made today, spurred on by a ridiculous and erroneously reported story this past week (TV news and in print) of an Etsy "KNITTER" who makes just under a million dollars a year ($80,000 a month - KNITTING, if you are to believe the headline). Most of us who create, knew this was going to turn out to be more fiction than fact, but the reports did serve as a huge discouragement to others. What they neglected to point out, right up front, was that this woman has…