Techniques You Can Apply to
All of Your Dollmaking.
Complete 2-Day Dollmaking Workshop For Beginning to Intermediate Dollmakers Realistic Cloth Dolls
Mimi's Basic Dollmaking
tutorial uses a very easy pattern for a four to five year old child. The
doll is about 10-inches (25-cm), and can be a boy or a girl or neither
(and have wings or a fish tail). It uses Mimi's easy, modular technique
for full posing.
This doll is so simple that a first-time dollmaker can make it easily
and successfully in just a few hours.
The Basic Dollmaking doll is the perfect canvas to showcase your
needlework by decorating wings, or fins, or clothes, or paint, or
embroidery, or beading, or your own favorite expression.
There are only six basic pattern pieces, plus a few optional choices
such as pointed toes, pointed ears, and flukes and wings.
The well-shaped head has a choice of human or “pointy”
attached ears, and does not need a face when the doll is made for
the display of your needlework.
For the more adventurous, there is a fully needle-modeled face.
It’s easier than you think with my new directions. There is
an easier way to stitch the eyes and make that cute mouth.
There are no clothing patterns.
Many dollmakers will create entire character
wardrobes for this doll. You have my permission to sell clothing patterns
to fit it.
Use this body design to create the doll of your dreams, a child, a faery, an elf or a mer-kid to display your favorite form of needle-art on the wings or flukes.
How it Works:
34 video demonstrations.
Go at your own pace. (It's all accessible immediately. No week-by-week handouts.)
You don't have to worry about the class ending before you can participate
in the discussion group. The Screaming Mimis is a permanent discussion
group.
You don't have to wait for a new class to begin. Start when you're
ready.
Everybody on The Screaming Mimi's is working on Mimi patterns (or
their own projects based on what they have learned) and can help you.
Jim and I read the discussions every day and help out whenever we
are needed. We also schedule live chats with Mimi.
The tutorial gets updated as we shoot new video or find easier ways
to explain things. If you come back and do it again after a few months,
you may find a lot of new things. Just check the "What's New" chapter
in the "Introduction" lesson for a dated list of changes.
What You Will Learn:
How to photograph your dolls
How to make and use templates
What to look for in stuffing materials
How to work with knits
How to determine fabric stretch
How to clean hand sewing needles
How to set up your sewing machine for dollmaking
How to take care of air soluble markers
What kind of thread to use for dollmaking
How to clip seams
How to ladder stitch
How to select hemostats
How to make and use a stuffing tool
How to stuff a doll smoothly
How to make wired hands
How to turn fingers
How to wire ears
How to pin doll parts together with a smooth fit
How to attach wings to a faery and flukes to a mer-kid
How to locate features on a face
How to be sure your eyes are on the same plane and the same size
How to needle-model a nose
How to needle-model lips
How to make dimensional eyes
How to color the face
How to make needle lace
How to make thread paintings
Lessons:
Introduction
Reference Section
General Instructions
Stitching
Stuffing
Assembling Doll
Wings & Flukes
Needle-Model Face
Coloring the Doll
Needle Lace
Finishing Doll
You are licensed to sell dolls made from this pattern.
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