Pennies And More Pennies

Oh My!
Good morning sweet friends!
A big thank you to everyone for all of your suggestions.
I decided to do the shawl idea
formy last dollie and will show once completed.

I have always said that our foremothers 

from the 1800's 

were the most mighty able-bodied woman.

A few years back I featured this rug 

in one of my blog posts.

After seeing this antique penny rug that was

a room sized one at our favorite museum;

Greenfield Village,

I remain steadfast that our foremothers

were amazing!!!

Can you imagine sewing all of these pennies together?

Enough to make a full size rug?

A M A Z I N G

Look at the detail in these penny blocks.

To gorgeous to lay on a floor...don't you think?

But yet it was inside a home at one time.

Imagine how long it would have taken

to make this. 

Just these four pennies I cut out took me an hour to sew.

I say it again,

our foremothers were 
A M A Z I N G!

I love penny rugs, but alas I do not have the ambition,

nor the time to make a room size penny rug.
Plus Bob would have mud all over it the first night
it was on the floor. LOL

Last week I made this sweet little penny pillow.
I am on the kick of making pennies again.
Bought more wool to make a runner.

I had already made this black dollie years ago.
You see Lauren, Julie and Peggy...
Rugs and Pugs (Lauren)
My Primitive Heart (Julie)
A Primitive Plot (Peggy)
she is sporting a red wool heart...
so I really did not want to add another heart
to my latest one.
But a 
B I G
thank you for the idea.
You all were reading my mind...just a few years earlier.
The heart was made into a necklace with dried raisins.

This dollie is a bit smaller than my latest one.

Now my penny pillow looks good by her.

Don't you think?

However, my next black dollie that I am 

currently drawing out will have

some kind of heart, crude patch & even pearly teeth!

Plus I will let you all decide on her name.

All great suggestions you all made!

Thank you!

Through the woods and along the big river 
I head off to work.
Whats in store for you today?
Janice