Fanciful Cloth Dolls

Author: Terese Cato
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607055538
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The self-taught designer guides you through creating enchanting heirlooms—including a tooth fairy, pincushion girls, an elf, and a tiny flower sprite. You don’t have to be a doll maker to enjoy crafting these little sweethearts. If you love to craft and sew, you’ll have fun learning new techniques for creating a whimsical fairy, an impish elf, or a sweet pincushion girl. From fabric sculpting to face painting and all the finishing touches, every captivating detail of your doll will be appreciated for years to come. A charming gallery of variations for each project will inspire you to add distinctive character and personal flair to your creations. Create a special keepsake doll that your family will cherish for generations Each of the four projects has complete head-to-toe instructions, including details for expressive faces, perfect hair, cute clothes, and an abundance of accessories Perfect for both beginner and experienced doll enthusiasts—learn the basics, try new techniques, and sprinkle in your own unique embellishment style

Make Cloth Dolls

Author: Terese Cato
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051613
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Create dolls with personality from head to toe with tips from the self-taught artist, weaver, woodworker, and author of Needle Felting. A step-by-step visual guide to making a lighthearted and charming collectible for the doll-lovers you know! Bring these endearing characters to life with patterns you can personalize for a chef, gardener, knitter, mother, scrapbooker, shopper, or lover of all things handmade. Learn face-painting techniques that make each doll unique. Create four types of cloth dolls—three sculpted and one rag doll. Beginner-friendly project instructions include templates for the body and clothing, as well as suggestions for hair and accessories. Mix and match patterns and poses to create an unlimited number of dolls with your own flair. Inspirational gallery included.

Crafting Cloth Dolls

Author: Miriam Gourley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 9780844220840
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Crafting Cloth Dolls features complete, step-by-step instructions for 10 exquisite fabric dolls. Patterns spotlight designs by top artists, including Barbara Chapman, Elise Peeples, and Brenda Gehl, and talented newcomers such as Annie Moon. Everything you need to know to create original dolls is here--how to form the body, paint the face, make and style hair, and costume the doll. With glorious full-color photographs of 100 dolls and detailed color drawings throughout, these pages are bursting with creative inspiration for both beginning and experienced dollmakers. Lesson planning and resource lists are included.

Cloth Doll Workshop

Author: elinor peace bailey
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1610594037
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
Three leading dolls artists share doll-making techniques, as well as step-by-step instructions to creating beautiful dolls of your own. Patti Culea, elinor peace bailey, and Barbara Willis are three of the leading doll artists and teachers in the country. They are also friends. Each of these artists has her own distinct approach to the design and development of a cloth figure. In this book, each artist’s process will come alive through their choice of fabrics, sketches, simple patterns, and skill-building variations. The book is oriented toward beginning doll makers but offers unique variations and embellishments to please even more experienced doll designers. Two introductory chapters cover basic materials and techniques. Each artist’s chapter includes step-by-step illustrations, instructions, and patterns to make a complete doll, plus variations that create completely new figures. Readers are treated to full color photography and a look inside of each artist’s workspace. A gallery of additional creations by each artist, along with commentary on each work completes the collection. This is a must-have book for any aspiring or experienced doll making.

Creative Cloth Doll Collection

Author: Patti Medaris Culea
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 1610581148
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
This book is a compilation of the first four of Patti Medaris Culea's bestselling books: Creative Cloth Doll Making, Creative Cloth Doll Faces, Creative Cloth Doll Couture, and Creative Cloth Doll Beading. This comprehensive book guides readers through all the basics of creating cloth figures, with step-by-step fully illustrated instruction. Readers get complete patterns to create several styles of dolls, many with interchangeable parts. The book provides methods for creating beautiful faces, hair, garments, clothing, and supplies instruction in a wide variety of surface design techniques including dyeing, painting, stamping, beading, applique, hand and machine embroidery, image transfers, using Tyvek, and more. For further inspiration, the book also includes a gallery of doll designs by other leading doll artists, all made using the patterns from the book.

The Rag Doll

Author: Elinor Peace Bailey
Publisher: Ez Quilting by Wrights
ISBN: 9781881588092
Category : Rag doll making
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description

Creative Cloth Doll Making

Author: Patti Medaris Culea
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 9781564969422
Category : Cloth dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
A guide to dollmaking covers the basic techniques, working with embellishments, creating faces, and making the body, and includes three doll patterns with interchangeable parts.

Classic Cloth Dolls

Author: Linda Carr
Publisher: Sixth & Spring Books
ISBN: 9781931543040
Category : Cloth dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
“A foolproof guide.”—Vogue Patterns. “This book by one of the world’s top doll designers provides detailed information, patterns and ideas to make several different 18-inch cloth dolls....Loaded with valuable information for the fabric doll maker.”—Doll Castle News.

Make Your Own Old-Fashioned Cloth Doll and Her Wardrobe

Author: Claire Bryant
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486263614
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
62 full-size eye-catching stencils include fish of many varieties, crustaceans, a full-page mermaid, and Neptune. Everything you need to turn any surface into a seascape. Instructions included. Introduction.

Making Fantasy Cloth Dolls

Author: Jan Horrox
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781267405
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Building on the success of Jan Horrox's previous book, Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls, Jan's new book focuses on her exquisite fantasy dolls, including beautiful fairies, amazing mermaids, an enigmatic witch and a steampunk doll with attitude. These magical dolls are full of character and are amazingly easy to achieve with the help of this practical book. Step-by-step instructions are provided for all the basic techniques, including how to make the bodies, heads, arms, legs, hands and feet; how to make the hair; and how to needlesculpt and paint the exquisite faces to really bring your character to life. There are instructions for making webbed fingers, delicate fairy wings as well as a mermaid's tail, and there are three easy-to-follow projects to put all your newly acquired skills into practice. Jan encourages the reader to use their imagination and create dolls of their own, and the alternative designs that accompany each project show how easily this can be done simply by changing the faces, colours, fabrics and embellishments used.