By Kathleen Binns
This little bag is designed to hold trinkets or odds and ends on a dressing table, but given a ribbon handle would be fine as a party bag. It is made from a small doll. This one is only 3 in. high but a teenage doll would do equally well. The legs might have to be removed as they are taller.
This doll is still complete inside her clothes; the skirt is 3 & 1/2 in. long and the base of the bag 3 & 1/4 in. across.
Some stiff material such as glazed cotton or sailcloth is required for the skirt to keep the doll upright. You need only enough to cover a round base separately, then a strip for the skirt long enough to go round the base with a wide wrapover join at the back. Cut out a cardboard base. Cutting your material 1/2 in. larger than this all round run a gathering thread near the edge and draw up over the card. Neaten the inner side with a round of Fablon.
Make two hems up the back of the skirt piece allowing for a good wrapover for fastening. Stitch the bottom of the skirt on to the edge of the base, then turn in and gather the waist and draw up to fit the doll and stitch to the clothing to fix it. Add a little lace apron and poppers behind the skirt and the birthday gift’s ready.
From Dean’s Premier Book for Girls. 1966.
