Heidi- NeedleArtsetcetera

....it was Mehitabel Dell and her Cat, designed by elinor peace bailey[epb], who became the first cloth doll I made, because I loved the Mehitabel sitting on my friend Evelyn's couch. She had made the doll many years ago when she had taken a workshop class with elinor, who was then just getting into teaching dollmaking classes. Eve enjoyed elinor and her dolls so much that she followed her around and took as many of elinor's workshops as possible. Evelyn took me to fabric stores to show me how to select the proper muslin quality fabrics for the dolls I was planning to make in weeks to come, and she was a most helpful instructor teaching me the tricks she had learned from elinor....
elinor painted the faces of her doll designs and Evelyn ordered , for a fee, several for future dolls she was going to make as gifts, so luccky me received this head for my Mehitabel as a gift ...I embroidered the face of the cat .