the Essential Mimi Collection — 2018

Everything you need to make Mimi's precision cloth doll characters in one package at a great price.

1: How to Needle Model a Pretty Face Video Workshop — 2010

• Complete 2-Day Dollmaking Workshop on DVD
• Suitable for all skill levels — Beginner to Advanced. If you can do basic machine sewing to make the seams on the skull and the darts on the face overlay, you will learn everything else you need from watching the step-by-step video.
• 4 hour 48 minute over-the-shoulder DVD video filled with the complete contents of Mimi's 2-day dollmaking workshop.
• This pattern can be reduced or enlarged for use on any cloth character doll.
• You are licensed to sell dolls made from this pattern.

Contents

Disc 1 Introduction 01 Make Templates 02 Layout & Stitch Skull 03 Trim & Snip Seams 04 Turn Skull 05 Stuff Skull 06 Needle Model Nostrils 07 Needle Model Nose Flairs 08 Needle Model Nose Bridge 09 Set Nose into Skull 10 Add Stuffing 11 Finding Right Side of Knit 12 Layout & Stitch Overlay 13 Pinning Overlay to Skull 14 Sculpting Nose 15 Sculpting Eyeballs 16 Sculpting Brow Bones 17 Sculpting Lower Eye Socket 18 Making Adjustments

Disc 2 19 Locate Closed Mouth 20 Closed Mouth Upper Lip 21 Closed Mouth Lower Lip 22 Closed Mouth Fix Smile 23 Cheekbones, Brow, & Chin 24 Closing Head 25 Ears 26 Coloring the Face 27 Sketch Open Mouth 28 Open Mouth Upper Lip 29 Open Mouth Lower Lip 30 Open Mouth Teeth & Smile 31 Open Mouth Cheeks & Chin Sources

2: Mimi's Victoria Rose (1885) — 3rd Edition — 2017

Victoria Rose is an easy-to-make, armatured, 16-inch, free-standing cloth doll. She has a young, full-figured, anatomically-proportioned body with a late 19th Century silhouette.

• Suitable for Beginning to Advanced Cloth Dollmakers
• Step-by-Step Dollmaking Workshop — Convenient beside your sewing machine and everywhere you want it.
• AZW format for Kindle or Kindle PC.
• EPUB format for most smartphones and tablets.
• PDF expanded format for large screen laptops and desktops.
• PDF condensed format for Print.
• DVD video format for DVD players.
• MP4 video format for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops.
  (Note: some smartphones do not have enough processing power to play videos.)
• Expanded 115-page instruction book (56-pages in 2nd Edition) filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
• This pattern can be used for any young, full figured, anatomically proportioned, female character doll.
• You are licensed to sell dolls made from this pattern.

Free Bonus Gifts

• Mimi's Basic Shopping List — Get the right tools and supplies the first time to save time and money.
• Mimi's Video Handbook for Cloth Dollmakers — Over an hour of hands-on, how-to-do-it techniques.

3: Mimi's Father Christmas — 1992

• Mimi's Father Christmas is a fabulous teaching pattern and is easier than ever.
• Suitable for beginning to advanced cloth dollmakers.
• The versatile, anatomically proportioned, quarter-scale body (20" — 6 foot 6 inches) will also accept clay, resin, or porcelain head, hands, and feet.
• It can be used for any middle-aged, over-weight male character doll.
• This pattern teaches new techniques to serious dollmakers that can be applied to all of their dollmaking.
• Use the optional armature to make a wonderful, free-standing figure on a wooden base, or skip the armature for easier stuffing.
• Costume includes Union Suit under fur-trimmed robe (can be made as a Santa suit if desired), fur-trimmed hat, leather bag, and mittens.
• Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 32-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings and hints for dollmakers.
• You can sell dolls made from this pattern.

Variation: Skip's Santa (instructions not included)
Painted Silk over Sculpted Paperclay Mask,
Silk and Fur Costume, Mohair Hair & Beard

4: Mimi's Happy Birthday Honey — 1994

Mary was feeling tired and fat and fifty when she discovered that Victoria's Secret sold intimate apparel in size 2X.

Smiling to herself, she planned a birthday party for her honey. She baked a chocolate cake and served it with champagne, added some naughty videos, and her own special gift wrap. . .

• This is the pattern for the award winning doll that's fun for your own secret fantasy, and also just the thing to get "him" interested in dolls.
• Won Blue Ribbon, Artist's Dolls Over 10 Inches, UFDC National Convention, 1994. First Place, Dimensions in Dollmaking, San Diego, 1994.
• Mimi's Happy Birthday Honey is a 16-inch cloth doll with easy instructions for beginners.
• The pattern also includes more advanced techniques for experienced dollmakers.
• The mature female body with included optional face, hand, leg, and armature variations can be made into your own characters.
• The versatile, anatomically proportioned, quarter-scale body will also accept hard media head, hands, and feet
• The optional, full-body armature makes the doll free standing and allows her to hold the cake and grip the champagne bottle.
• Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 44-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
• You are licensed to sell dolls made from this pattern.

5: Mimi's Jazz — 1999

• Jazz is a 16-inch tall, stand alone doll with a young, full-figured, anatomically proportioned body.
• This pattern teaches you how to make my new modular armature.
• Jazz wears fishnet tights, a leotard, a tail coat and a top hat. You can make her more daring by using only the tails of the coat and a special set of sleeves.
• Instructions are included for a gorgeous, regal cape and hat. You can make her even more exotic with a feathered, fantasy costume so she can dance "The Firebird."
• Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 56-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
• This pattern can be used for any young, full figured, anatomically proportioned, female character doll.
• You are licensed to sell dolls made from this pattern.