Patti Cake is a little girl with a brand new big girl room and a new, but slightly smudged, doll to keep her company--if her dog Tootsie does not run away with it.
Goldie, a dollmaker, creates each doll with great love and sincerity, and the pleasure from this and her acquisition of a lamp whose maker was equally careful makes her poverty and loneliness bearable.
A guide to creating original dolls as gifts, crafts, and heirlooms, including patterns and instructions for making pocket dolls, keepsake dolls, oldfashioned dolls, Amish-style dolls, upside-down dolls, and classic rag dolls.