Barb Spencer
is a multi-talented designer, cloth doll maker and freelance writer. She
began her design and doll making career by exhibiting at various International
Quiltfests. It was for these fests that Barb designed doll patterns,
acquired distributors and had her work selected for trade magazines and pattern
catalogs.
At the present
time, Barb has more than 50 doll patterns to her credit sold under her pattern
company, The Enchanted Attic. It was at these shows where her work
was used in instructional classes, and where she was commissioned to design
dolls for the following companies:
Fairfield Processing Corporation
The Emanuel Roth Company, Division of Novtex Corporation
Spiegel Fabrics
Spectrix Fabrics
Donna Gallagher, Creative Needlearts, Inc.
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Their wired bodies are made of
the finest quality of dyed unbleached
muslin with the exception of their legs, which are
bleached muslin to
represent white stockings. There are red
painted bands on the legs to
represent garters. Hitty's face is needle sculpted
and penned with
permanent ink fabric pens. Her tiny head is
securely sewn to a neck tab
and her black ringlets are made from curly chenille
doll hair. Securely sewn
to doll's head. The curls on Hitty's forehead
are a combination of doll hair
and embroidery, carefully sewn with beading needles.
Hitty's black
gessoed boots are sometimes laced over tiny gold tone
metal beads. She wears lace
trimmed drop-waist underclothing and vintage looking
clothing. The
dolls are signed and come with their own doll stand
and one toy/item.
They also have certificates of
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In the last 12
years she has created her beautiful one-of-a-kind collector dolls, as well as
written and illustrated books of faces for cloth dolls. For 2 years Barb
had a helpful column geared toward cloth doll makers in a national magazine.
Within the 12 years, she has seen her work published in:
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Contemporary Doll Collector
DOLLS
Doll World
Doll Reader
Doll Life
Doll Designs
Dollmaking Crafts & Designs
Victorian Sampler
Crafts 'N Things
Creative Product News
Craft & Needlework
The 1996 Doll Sourcebook
Anatomy of a Doll
Soft Dolls & Animals
Dollmakers Journal
Crafters Circle
Doll Hair Basics
Doll Castle News
Sunbonnet Crafts
Profitable Craft Merchandising
Patterncrafts
Honey-Hill
Clotilde
Herrschners
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Barb's collector
lady dolls have been on "Home and Garden" and CBS television programs; her
little collector Hitty dolls were a part of the 1999 Telly Award winning
documentary "Hitty, an American Travel Doll."
Barb is a member of the National Cloth Doll Makers
Association (NCDMA), Academy of American Doll Artists, Dollabilities (her doll
club in Reeds Spring, Missouri) elinor peace bailey's, The Association of People
Who Play With Dolls (APWPWD) and Virginia Heyerdahl's "Friends of Hitty".
Final note:
Her passion is the pursuit of antique treasures to be incorporated into
her beautiful collector dolls. In Barb's words, "The hunt for unique doll
making supplies is just the best! I have a necessary reason to shop in my
favorite haunts! I am never bored seeing one of my collector dolls
develop, but have great difficulty letting them leave home. I wish, no
more than that -- I pray that all of my little ladies find good homes and give
years of pleasure to their new owners."
Visit Barb's Enchanted Attic
Website
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