Raggedy Ann Dolls

Whenever I went to the hospital to give birth to a child I took along something to give the kid or kids left at home when I came home. When our fourth child was going to be born, I got the idea of making Raggedy Ann dolls. The three children we already had loved the stories. I got my pattern and went to work. It was fun. We had had a bad incident with a doll with Sally when she was young inhaling the stuffing so I looked around for something safer that I could use and I got the idea of nylon hose. I asked my friends and relatives to give me their cast off nylon hose when they had runners in them and stuffed a Raggedy Andy for Steve and Raggedy Anns for Sally and Susan. They loved them. I can't remember if I did any more or not and expect the patterns are still on the shelf over the washer and dryer.