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.

My Rag Doll

Author: Corinne Crasbercu
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1446367495
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
Sew super-cute rag dolls and their gorgeous clothes—perfect for personalized presents! Start with one basic doll sewing pattern—which you can then alter to personalize your doll’s coloring and hairstyle. Then choose from a range of fabulous themed outfits and accessories to complete your uniquely charming doll—including a ballerina doll, a bride doll, a bedtime doll, and a fairy doll. All instructions are suitable for intermediate to experienced sewers and include full-sized templates for the doll, clothes, and accessories.

My Felt Doll

Author: Shelly Down
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446370992
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Hand-sewing soft dolls has never been easier with these adorable patterns from the Gingermelon Dolls designer. The eagerly anticipated first book by popular toy designer Shelly Down, My Felt Doll shows sewers of all abilities how to make adorable soft dolls—and more than forty accompanying accessories—using the most basic of materials and skills. With just felt sheets and a handful of simple notions, you will learn how to sew the simple yet delightful doll pattern and then discover eleven imaginative variations on the design—from a mermaid to a witch, from a princess to a superhero, and from a ballerina to a bride—guaranteed to delight little girls everywhere. With no hems to sew and all the stitching done by hand, My Felt Doll makes a great entry point to sewing dolls for beginners and even children. Full-size templates make life easy—trace straight from the page with no need to enlarge. “Totally lovely . . . The instructions are clear and Shelly’s hand-drawn illustrations for each step are a perfect accompaniment . . . This is one of those instances in which buying a book is really worthwhile.” —While She Naps “Great for absolute beginners with no sewing experience . . . Also, a great addition to an experienced plushie maker . . . as the details and color palette will surely inspire you in your next customization.” —Noisybeak “The cutest book . . . Since the dolls are entirely handsewn out of wool felt, they take a little extra time, but the end results were so cute!” —Clover & Violet

The Making of a Rag Doll

Author: Jess Brown
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452130183
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 139

Book Description
Designer Jess Brown is known for her irresistible, starry-eyed rag dolls. In this inspiring book, Brown shares a custom pattern and simple instructions to sew, personalize, and accessorize your own rag doll. Illustrating the story behind these dolls, the book places emphasis on natural materials, vintage fabrics, beautiful notions, and quality craftsmanship. Make the dolls for the children—of all ages—in your life to love now and cherish for decades. After making the doll, follow Brown's patterns for darling accessories such as an apron, overcoat, and knickers.

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.

Making Fantasy Cloth Dolls

Author: Jan Horrox
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781267405
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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.

Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls

Author: Jan Horrox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844484584
Category : Cloth dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
General how-to instructions follow, emphasizing the actual crafting of two different types of hands and faces, well illustrated with color photographs. Tips, some helpful, some not-so, are scattered throughout in shaded boxes, ranging from a reminder to craft both right and left feet to the steps of sewing the ladder stitch. Then the dolls debut, each with a second variation.

Making Rag Dolls

Author: Juanita Clarke
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486286846
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Easy-to-make collection of 20 multi-cultural dolls — same body for all, but each with unique facial features, hairstyle, and clothing. Simple instructions, list of materials, patterns, embroidery notes for Poppy the Clown, Santa and Mrs. Claus, 17 others. Full-page color photo of each finished design. 48 pages of patterns.

Easy-to-make Cloth Dolls & All the Trimmings

Author: Jodie Davis
Publisher: Williamson Books
ISBN: 9780913589533
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Written for both the beginner and more advanced crafter in mind and includes: basics of making soft dolls; lists of tips and sources; 23 clear and easy doll patterns-to-size; step-by-step instructions; 50 clothing and accessory patterns; photographs of each doll.

The Complete Book of Dollmaking

Author: Pamela Peake
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN: 9780823007738
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Provides information for making all types of dolls, including techniques for drawing and coloring faces, styling the hair, dressmaking, and tips on what type of equipment to use