Millie & Tillie Giveaway!

Last weekend as I pawed through a storage container, I found lots of "stuff" that I'd bought at one time or another with something clearly in mind at the time. Hmmm....well, I'm not even sure which decade these spool dolls were popular in but I never made a single one. I just wanted to! I think it was in the 80's?

So when I found this package with the supplies to make two little dolls - well, I opened it right then and there and put them together.


Ta-Da! A naked Millie & Tillie who don't even have faces yet! This part was just way too easy. And really...I wondered, what am I going to do with them now?

I know...I'll have a giveaway, I thought. I'll put cute little dresses on them and give them faces and hair (since the curls were also in the box I was going through) and I'll give them away!


I'll spare you the details of clothing these lovely ladies, but it took three tries before I found something that sort of fit. The tatting part was the easiest bit of that too.

The faces were quick...a permanent ink pen and a bit of highlighter for the lips and eyes.

Now the hair....nearly had me pulling out my own! First of all, I've not used this hair stuff much at all. I put a curly beard on a Santa one time and that was pretty much it. Secondly, these babes had knots coming out of the top of their heads! Have you ever tried to disguise a knotty head? You can't cut those curls too long. They fall off before they dry. And when you have glue-ey fingers and you're trying to position a tender wisp of curl....FORGET IT!

Trust me on that one.


So...to sweeten the deal, the winners will each also get a Penny Pony to put together themselves!

Whoo Hoo! So just comment between now and 6:00 p.m. Sunday night (Eastern DST) and two random numbers will be picked to win a spool dolly and a candle cup pony kit! Make sure I have a way to contact you! I will not track you down - if there is not an email or google account to contact you with, I will go to the next random number.


Okay - two more insertions from Sharon's book. This is the clover insertion, made by tatting two clover edgings facing each other. Someone asked about this thread size which I used in an insertion in the last post. It's size 30.


And HERE we have a vine insertion! Do you see a pattern forming here? The edgings that I tatted before are being expanded or combined to make an insertion. I have one more to tat before moving on to motifs.