The August/September 2020 issue of DOLLS features 48 four-color pages. This issue includes the annual presentation of the Dolls Awards of Excellence Public’s Choice nominees and ballot, as well as articles on BJD fashion designer Edith Schmidt, artist April Norton’s new white-porcelain doll series, resources for finding doll-sized notions, a raincoat pattern for 14- to 17-inch dolls, and more!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features

8 Simply Elegant

Edith Schmidt’s clothing designs are lovely, lyrical

By Stephanie Finnegan

14 Tourist Trap

Designer can’t travel, so her dolls get an outing

16 In Memoriam

Doll artist Sylvia Weser dies

18 2020 Diamond Awards

See this year’s nominees and get ready to vote for the Public’s Choice winners

24 Diamond Awards Ballot

25 The Tiniest Notions

Finding sewing supplies scaled for dolls

By Chelly Wood

28 Elizabethan Drama

Inspires April Norton’s white-porcelain dolls for 2020

31 Gayle Wray’s CJDs

Capture personalities in cloth

32 Custom Corner

34 It’s Raining, It’s Pouring …

Make a hooded raincoat for a 14- to 17-inch doll

By Chelly Wood

Departments

6 Editor’s Notebook

33 Portraits

38 Antique Q&A

40 Curious Collector

42 Doll Scene

44 Paper Doll

46 Event Calendar

46 Classifieds

46 Advertiser Index