LIKE the little animals, these dolls are modelled of tissue-paper and they are equally substantial and durable. The dolls, as well as their dresses, shoes, and bonnets, are made without taking a stitch or using glue or paste. Nothing could be prettier or more suitable to hang on the Christmas-tree than these little ladies decked out in their fluffy tissue-paper skirts, and nothing will give greater delight to the children.
Here she comes. Little Miss Muffett.
To make
Little Miss Muffett
you will need eight sheets of white tissue-paper, two sheets of flesh pink, not too deep in color, a quarter of a sheet of light-brown or yellow, and a small piece of black. Her underclothes will require one sheet of white and her dress and bonnet one sheet of any color you consider most becoming.
Fig. [149].—Creased tissue-paper for making doll.
| Fig. [150].—Six sheets of tissue-paper folded together for making doll. | Fig. [151].—Head of doll. | Fig. [152].—Head tied on body. |
Take one sheet of the white paper at a time and draw it lengthwise through your hands, creasing or crimping it as in [Fig. 149]. Do this to all the eight sheets. Then, pulling six of them partly open, place them evenly one on top of another and fold through the middle ([Fig. 150]). Take another sheet of the crimped paper and roll it into a ball like [Fig. 151]. Open the folded paper, place the ball in the middle, bring the paper down over the ball and wrap and tie just below with coarse linen thread or white darning-cotton ([Fig. 152]). This is the head, which you must model into shape with your fingers, squeezing it out to make it fuller and rounder at the back and pinching it to give a chin to the face. Fold another crimped sheet like [Fig. 153] for the arms. You will notice the ends do not quite reach the folds. The space left should measure a little over one inch. Crimp half a sheet of the pink paper and with it cover the arms; allow the pink to extend equally at each end beyond the white and fold over the ends, tying them as in [Fig. 154]. Then tie the loose ends down as in [Fig. 155]. Open the paper just below the head, slip the arms in place and tie below ([Fig. 156]).