Dollies Online was dreamed up in about 2008 I think? My friend Amy was having a bad time, so I made her a little quilt, wrapped it up and popped a few presents in, and posted it off to her in the USA. A few months later she sent a box back, with a little quilt she had made, and some presents! No no no I said, this was supposed to cheer you up, not make work for you... so I made her another one, and sent it off 
This continued for quite some time, and after a while we decided that the little quilts we were coming up with were way too cute not to share. And so Dollies Online was born.
Since then I have had a LOT of dolly quilts in my life. Amy and I ran Dollies Online for a number of years, and then we wrote a book together, all about them! Cute Little Quilts is still in print. There are also dolly quilts in my book Quilting From Little Things, which is still my favourite of all the books I've written, incidentally.
A dolly quilt is historically just a small quilt, a quilt a little girl would make for her dolly. These little quilts are wonderful fun to make because they're quick, satisfying, cute and also an excellent chance for a LESSON!
Each little quilt in the 2022 Dollies Online program is made with a different technique or block design, so you try some things you might not otherwise try without having to start a huge quilt to do so.
Once you've made your dolly tops, they don't have to be quilts! Turn yours into a tote bag, cushion, the centre for a larger quilt - there are loads of options for these fun little projects. Or you can quilt them and hang them somewhere special all together, like I do!​
The 2022 Dollies Online program will consist of 6 patterns, one every two months, delivered via PDF plus a video tutorial. Each of these quilts will be no smaller than 12" square and no larger than 18" square.
There is an optional template set (which for this program I HIGHLY recommend you order) that contains templates for the little pieces in some of the quilts and the paper pieces for some of the blocks. There are also some optional notions available - for English Paper Piecing, needleturn applique and for making the stems of flowers on one quilt.
