[ridesthemiles]

Good for you.

I also remember ‘MILK STRAINER PAD DOLLS’.

There was a STRAINER that fit into the bottom of the WIDE funnel used to pour milk from the milker into the 10 gallon cans. I could use some of those-— UNUSED-—with different colors of yarn to make “BIG HOOP SKIRTS/shawls/ & BIG HATS on dolls.

Mostly, I was a bookworm.

[Albion Wilde]

I do not remember milk strainer pad dolls, because we were in the suburbs of a city. But two popular hand-made items at the church bazaars were sock monkeys and yo-yo dolls:

PS
This is a cloth yo-yo. A good way to use up scraps, to make dolls or entire quilts: