Cloth Doll Books, CDs and DVDs

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Printing Faces on Fabric CD
By Kat Lees  
Discover the secrets of transferring painted faces or photos to fabric in
this comprehensive tutorial that will expand your face making options.

New! Fiddly Little Fingers & Tricky Toes CD By Madeleine Maddocks The excellent tips and useful step-by-step information on this fantastic CD will have you making those wired finger hands and toed feet easily and effectively. You'll also find a wealth of background information on preparation, suitable fabrics, tools and illustrated do's and don'ts. As a BONUS you'll receive complete instructions for the blissful "Pampered Polly" (Pictured Below) with her perfectly manicured fingers and toes. $20.00 - Qty:

Pampered Polly

Creating Faces with Chalk CD
By Kat Lees  
Shading and blending color is a breeze when you learn the secrets of using
chalks to create beautiful faces. Kat's detailed step-by-step instruction
and over 60 photos will guide you expertly through the process.

Watercolor Faces CD By Sherry Goshon Sherry partnered with Kate Erbach to produce this updated and beautifully enhanced version of her popular Creating Watercolor Pencil Faces book. You'll find lots of valuable extra material to further your face making skills on this terrific CD.  $20.00 - Qty:  The Doll as Messenger CD Guiding you on your creative journey with 86 pages of photos, drawings and insights elinor gives you 10 amazing patterns to play with for exploring the body’s language. $20.00 - Qty:  Wing It By Virginia Robertson You’ll find a ton of ideas for creating the perfect wings for your fairies, angels and other mythical creatures in this well written book. Among the many techniques presented you’ll learn shadow appliqué, machine appliqué, wire armatures, fabric painting and quilting. Several sizes and styles of wing patterns are included for your use.  $17.50 - Qty:  Heart to Hands Bead Embroidery: Fresh Ideas and Techniques for Creating Art with Beads by Robin Atkins This beautiful book with 84 color photographs is for beaders, fiber artists, quilt makers and anyone interested in developing their own unique artistic voice. Here you'll find pictures, inspirations, project ideas, techniques and tips to make your bead embroidery distinctive, appealing and fun! Learn how to tell your heart's stories with beads. Try 20 new stitch techniques for making spiral shells, ruffles, wildflowers, roots, barnacles and other exciting forms and textures. $24.00 - Qty:  7 Virtues – Illusion Costuming for the Creative Doll Maker by Sherry Goshon     Through the creation of SEVEN different dolls from the same basic pattern pieces you will learn a fantastic array of costuming techniques that will take your dollmaking to an exciting new level. From decoupaging tissue or hand made paper to form a bodice to draping and ruching a variety of fabrics and fibers you’ll achieve glorious results with a minimum of effort. A flat face head is included but the “Chantal” or “Virtue” molds may be used if you prefer a clay face. $25.00 - Qty:  CLOTH DOLLMAKING: Theory and Practice By Antonette Cely Perfect for dollmakers of all skill levels, this fabulous spiral-bound book takes you through the process of creating beautiful cloth dolls from simple Christmas Tree Angels through the complex “20th Century Nude.” The pages are filled with clear diagrams and text, explaining Antonette's techniques in a precise and very understandable manner. The most comprehensive treasure trove of dollmaking skills you should learn on the market!  $29.95 - Qty:  Focus on Faces 2 CD Each of the 14 faces on this CD comes in two formats – flat face and center seam – to give you endless creative possibilities. Thorough instruction and lots of color photos will guide you expertly through the face coloring and shading process. A great bonus body pattern is included with a variety of clothing suggestions. A must have for your reference library!  $19.95 - Qty:  Crafting Cloth Dolls By Miriam Gourley This fabulous collection of fabric dolls provides step-by-step directions for making ten exquisite creations that represent an incredible range of styles, from primitive folk art to exotic sculpted work. Miriam will instruct you on everything you need to know to create original dolls--how to form the body, paint the face, make and style the hair, and costume the doll. Patterns feature designs by top artists, including Barbara Chapman, Elise Peeples, and Brenda Gehl, and by many talented newcomers. The dolls are arranged by skill level, so you will find it easy to choose a pattern that suits your tastes and ability. With more than one hundred glorious full-color photographs of cloth dolls and detailed drawings throughout, these pages are bursting with creative inspiration for those starting their first doll or their fiftieth! TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE $27.95 – 164 Pages - Qty:  Lisa Hertzi Art Doll Adventures Exploring Projects and Processes through Cultural Traditions 128 Pages Using history as a starting point, Lisa-Li Hertzi has created five exciting doll projects, inspired by five very different cultural and historical icons/figures. Through the projects she explores the creative process, the meaning and significance of each figure, and teaches techniques that doll makers are currently experimenting with: journaling, collage, mixed media and found objects. Each doll is presented as a step-by-step project with complete instructions, and is followed by a gallery featuring interpretations by leading doll artists of the same cultural figure. Fantastic full color illustrations and patterns by the author are included. $24.95 - Qty:

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Customizing Doll Patterns DVD by Antonette Cely In her first video, NIADA doll artist Antonette Cely shares all the secrets of customizing doll patterns so you can make the cloth doll of your dreams! This 88 minute DVD will expertly teach you how to take any pattern, even one you've created yourself, and accurately alter it to fit any pose! $39.95 - Qty:

Making Faces DVD by Antonette Cely  In her second DVD, Antonette Cely will show you how to create beautiful faces for your cloth doll using her technique of a "cloth-covered mask." To start, you'll sculpt a face, then make a two-piece press mold. Next she'll show you how to bake the face, then cover it with fabric, paint and finish it. Top the whole thing off with making a wig, and you'll have a lovely head for your cloth doll! The techniques Antonette teaches apply to more than just cloth dolls, so order today and start MAKING FACES! $39.95 - Qty:

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Let’s Face It Book by elinor peace bailey Solid insight and creative direction abound in this classic face making book.  Learn the techniques for creating fabulous expressions for dolls in any style from cartoonish characters to more realistic figures. $15.00 - Qty:

Doll Making Basics DVD  by elinor peace bailey From basics such as tools needed, fabric/trim selection, construction of doll, stuffing, sculpting, face painting and much more, this NEW DVD contains everything that elinor has learned about doll making over the past 30 years. Included are 2 1/2 hours of information and instruction on 2 DVD discs. You’ll feel just like you are sitting with her in her studio! $30.00 - Qty:

Big Fat Hairy Deal Book   by elinor peace bailey, Bonnie Hoover and Sally Lampi  101 Ways to do hair!  Endless inspiration from three terrific designers. $9.00 - Qty:

Pick Pockets Book by elinor peace bailey You have endless fun creating the 20 delightful wearables is this well-loved book. $15.00 - Qty:

One bead at a Time By Robin Atkins Intended to both teach and inspire, this book will show you how beads, creativity, and healing are related. You will learn to stitch beads on fabric improvisationally, creating art work which is compelling, beautiful, fun, and satisfying to make. You will discover ways to break through the walls of doubt and criticism that prevent us from exploring our full artistic potential.  $19.95 - Qty:

Spirit Dolls By Robin Atkins This book includes three full-sized patterns, complete and easy-to-follow instructions, detailed photos, drawings, and tips to design and create your own unique beaded spirit dolls. Make spirit dolls as special gifts to yourself and your loved ones for celebrations, healing, guidance, remembering, protection, or friendship and love. Color pictures of fourteen different dolls by Robin will give you lots of ideas.  $15.00 - Qty:

Creative Cloth Doll Couture By Patti Medaris Culea Learn how to make exotic and beautiful garments and accessories for art dolls.  Patti will guide you through decorative fabric treatments and embellishments, along with dyeing, painting and stamping to create a beautiful evening gown and much more as well as teach you how to expertly drape a doll body to create your own pattern.  Truly, a treasure trove of ideas and techniques!  $24.99 - Qty:

Creating Watercolor Pencil Faces with Sherry Goshon By Sherry Goshon This wonderful spiral-bound workbook walks you step-by-step with colored drawings through the creation of five distinct faces -Caucasian Adult, Caucasian Child, African American, Asian and Hispanic.  Using layers of colored pencils, Sherry teaches you how to achieve a three dimensional look on flat faces. A terrific tool for advancing your face making skills!  $25.00 - Qty:  Between the Sheets By Alysn Midgelow-Marsden Extraordinary exploration of the wonders of working with Angelina Fibers.  Detailed explanations, inspirational ideas, step-by-step projects and an artists' gallery of fabulous photos will lead you on exciting adventure with this amazing fiber that can be spun, woven, layered, trapped, bonded etc.  Its applications in textile art, embroidery, paper making, papier mache, modeling, card and candle making are endless.  $24.95 - Qty:  Making Faces By Virginia Robertson This classic 34 page booklet is packed with a wide variety of faces - from cartoon-like to very realistic - for you to copy along with solid instruction from Virginia.  $9.50- Qty:  Embeadery: Using Classic Embroidery Stitches in Beadwork By Margaret Ball All you need to make dazzlingly beautiful works of bead embroidery is a handful of beads, a beading needle, thread, and a firm fabric to apply the beads to.  You'll learn to add rhythm, texture, pattern, and excitement to your work by using the remarkable diagrams and photographs in this exquisite book. $29.95 - 156 pages text and diagrams, 18 color plates - Qty:  Creative Cloth Doll Faces By Patti Culea The face is the most important feature of a doll-it is also the most challenging. With Patti's thorough step-by-step approach, readers will learn how to use watercolor pencils, acrylics, and fabric paints to color a face, how to create a face using collage techniques as well as stamping and beading, and tips for working with stretchy fabrics to create indented eyes, separate eyelids, sculpted lips and much more. $24.99 - 128 pages - Qty:  CD by Leslie Molen Needlesculpting in Cloth CD This CD version is a complete lesson with 19 detailed color photos to guide you to a beautifully sculpted face with eyes open or closed. Includes bonus face painting instructions. $12.50 - Qty:  Booklet by Leslie Molen How to Do Needlesculpting in Cloth Booklet This updated and revised booklet will help you to have a proper understanding of feature location and teach you a variety of stitches to achieve the look you want with eyes open or closed. A head pattern is included for you to learn as you go.. $8.00 - Qty:  DVD by Leslie Molen Adventures in Dollmaking with Leslie Molen This needlesculpting DVD guides you through selecting the best tools and fabrics to overlaying and painting a needlesculpted head.  Watch the head transform and come alive with these detailed techniques! $39.95 - Qty:  Needle Sculpting Cloth Doll Faces By Virginia Robertson Packed with color photos, this book walks you step-by-step through face sculpting and painting using a variety of doll making materials including several kinds of knits and woven fabric. Special attention is given to drawing dark doll faces. A wonderful basic doll pattern is included along with a step-by-step tutorial on finger turning. No question about it – this book is a MUST HAVE for your reference library. $25.00 - Qty:  Little Stuff By Virginia Robertson A big, beautiful book filled with 21 different doll patterns collected by the Pin Ella P Doll Club.  $17.50 - Qty:  The Fairy Book By Virginia Robertson and Friends This whimsical book presents delightful creatures from a variety of designers complete with patterns and stories!  Dolls vary from 5" to 14".  $25.00 - Qty:  Doll Making as a Transformative Process by Pamela Hastings   Extraordinary 100-page book that includes 24 contributions from people who have used doll making for personal transformation, healing, changing relationships to changing the world. Pamela includes basic patterns and a wealth of pictures and ideas to guide you through using dollmaking for transformation. A book that will truly move and inspire you. $25.00 - Qty:  Designing a Doll and Making Faces Inspiration Book by Pamela Hastings   This 60-page book includes many pictures and inspirations to help you design your own doll. Included is a photo transfer on fabric so you can make one of Pamela Hasting's patterns and a full color gallery of some of her dolls. As you read you will be given a set of exercises to complete which will help spark your creativity in diverse areas such as shape, color, theme, found objects, pattern design, construction techniques, etc. Treat yourself to this very special addition to your dollmaking library. Temporarily Unavailable $20.00 - Qty:  Creative Cloth Doll Making by Patti Medaris Culea  This unique 128-page book enables readers to take inspiration from top contemporary designers—right from home. The premise is as original as it is fun: renowned designers such as Julie McCullough, Barbara Chapman, Barbara Evans, Annie Hesse, Jane Coughlan, Lynne Butcher, Barbara Willis, and others use 1 of the 3 simple patterns provided in the book to make a doll. Readers are able to look over the shoulder of the author, and of each designer, as she fashions her own unique creation. Crisp text, detailed illustrations, and color photos take readers step by step through the creative process. The end result - a wide array of amazingly different dolls made from 3 simple patterns - inspires doll makers to try out new techniques to fashion their own one-of-a-kind creations. $24.99 - Qty:    Showcase Doll! "Veronique" Made by Holly Zarcone Pattern found in Patti Culea's "Creative Cloth Doll Making." Booklets by Maggie Baggett and Jeannie Rigby Draw & Cut & Pin & Tuck Chock full of color photographs, this delightful 54 page book guides you through the exciting adventure of devising wonderful costumes (clothing - shoes and accessories) for your dolls. Another MUST HAVE for every doll maker's reference library.  $15.00 - - Qty:  Creating Heads and Faces How to Make Soft Doll and Animal Heads from Scratch Using 100% Cotton This 27 page booklet helps you to understand how the fabric works, how stuffing makes things look and where to place the features so you can start designing your own dolls.  $9.00 - Qty:  Creating Character How to Sculpt and Wire Soft Doll and Animal Heads Using 100% Cotton Learn the sculpting and wiring techniques that give your dolls and animals character, dimension and animation. Once you master this you will not go back to plain doll and animal faces again. (24 pages).  $9.00 - Qty:  Creating Depth How to Apply Face "Paint" to Soft Dolls and Animals Learn to use a variety of coloring agents from paint to applique fabrics to give your dolls and animals depth and believability. (12 pages).  $9.00 - Qty:  Hairdo How To's How to Create Hair Styles on Soft Dolls and Animals This 18-page booklet explores the use of both traditional and non-traditional materials to finish your doll's head off with a bang!  $9.00 - Qty:  Bumbling Through Bodies How To Design Bodies for Soft Dolls and Animals A wonderful, comical, insightful journey from doodles on scratch paper to a completed body of your own design – with Maggie and Jeannie's guidance anyone can do it! (35 pages).  $9.00 - Qty:  Pamela's Paper Doll Inspiration Book by Pamela Hastings   The Third Edition of this marvelous book contains 60 pages of patterns and ideas for making your own paper dolls, and encouragement for discovering your own unique creative gifts. The new edition has 20 additional pages of projects and four color pages of inspiration from Pamela and other paper doll artists. There are also two extra patterns, a sheet of images to use in your own work, and a new art paper doll made by Pamela. $25.00 - Qty:  Focus on Faces by Barb Keeling This comprehensive workbook has over 75 fabulous face designs to trace or copy. In addition, there are 28 separate eyes and mouth designs that you can combine to create your own unique faces. Each face is illustrated with complete shading information to guide you through the process. This MUST HAVE reference book includes complete supply lists, directions for enlarging or reducing any design and basic face sculpting instruction.   $21.95 - Qty:  Books by Susanna Oroyan Finishing the Figure Covering everything from pattern drafting and costuming basics to settings,  photography and beyond with 300 color photos to delight your creative fancy.  Learn how to use elements of design to enhance your figure's presentation  and reflect your own style.  An absolute must for every  dollmaker's reference library! $28.95 - Qty:  Designing the Doll From Concept to Construction 160 pages Expanding on concepts presented in Anatomy of a Doll, Susanna offers a wide variety of construction methods for advancing your dollmaking skills with this in-depth guide. She introduces you to her concept of "imaginative engineering" with a collection of design directions and technical processes that will help your ideas translate into reality.  More than 250 full-color photos of dolls from 130 of the world's top doll artists. $27.95 - Qty:  Creating Faces CD - Version 2.0 Just like a book, only better!  Version 2.0 allows instant navigation through the book and the ability to zoom in on more than 100 COLOR photos.  Newly added BONUS chapter includes more than 75 step-by-step pictures for coloring each sculpted head. CD Only - $17.00 - Qty: