Ruby, the Proverbs 31 Doll

Ruby is a small pocket-size doll that you and your girls can make together. She is easily made (even by those of you that declare yourselves uncrafty!) with pipe cleaners, wooden beads, felt, and yarn. (Sewing techniques and the included Bible studies are appropriate for young ladies age 6 and up.)

After your daughter brings Ruby to life she can make her a pocket-sized family (we supply enough pipe cleaners and wooden beads for her husband, five children and a baby)! These little dolls can stand up and bend into different positions for hours of creative play.

After making the dolls, your daughter can go on to learn simple basic homemaking skills as she makes:

• Ruby’s real purple silk dress
• Ruby’s tapestry coat with glittery hand embroidery
• A tiny market basket full of dough-art fruits and vegetables
• A batch of bread sticks for your dinner and tiny loaves of bread for Ruby’s market basket
• A miniature basket filled with real combed wool, a tiny drop spindle, and colorful wool yarn
• Scarlet winter clothing for all of Ruby’s family
• Miniature gardening tools for Ruby to use in her vineyard
• A tiny dough-art candle holder that will hold a real birthday candle
• Tiny, real linen sashes for Ruby to sell to the merchants
• A velvet drawstring bag for storing Ruby and her family

Instructions offer a choice between beginning and advanced alternatives. Your daughter will practice a rolled hem stitch, running stitch, blanket stitch, simple embroidery stitches, and cutting fabric with a pattern. (Remember—all these projects are small. Don’t be intimidated!) She will enjoy mixing a batch of modeling clay, the food for Ruby’s shopping basket, baking a batch of yeast bread, and more!