Doll Making Workshop

 
 

Let's get down to it!

In order for me to arrive with bags full of the materials you will need to create your doll, you have to make a few simple choices. These revolve around selecting a suitable hair colour in yarn form, as well as the eye colour for your doll. Please read everything through and fill up the form with your choices.

Since we will be crocheting the wig cap for your doll, these are the colours that you can choose from:

(the following images are taken from my supplier)

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From left to right
1. Natural
2. Ash Blonde
3. Honey
4. Golden
5. Ginger

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6. Brown Auburn
7. Red Brown
8. Golden Brown
9. Rich Brown
10. Brunette

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11. Blonde

The skin colour we will be using for your doll is made by De Witte Engel, a company in The Netherlands that manufactures this fabric to the highest european standards. The shade of the fabric is T101. I have chosen this shade because it pairs really well with most eye and hair colours.

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For the eye colour, please choose one from the following list. I will be pairing them to the skin fabric and your chosen hair colour, to find a nice shade that will suit your doll. I omitted very light-colours for the eyes as they might look a bit disconcerting but if you really want a lighter colour just let me know on the notes, and I will do my best to select a nice shade for you.

1. Medium Blue
2. Dark Blue
3. Medium Green
4. Dark Green
5. Medium Brown
6. Dark Brown
7. Dark Grey

What to bring?

I've diminished as much as possible the list of small tools you need to bring to the workshop, if you have any questions about what the tools are just let me know. 

1. Sewing gauge
2. Measuring tape
3. Crochet hook 2,75 mm (size C, or 2) or 3,25 mm (size D, or 3). 
   *if you have just learned to crochet I recommend the 3,25mm or D hook.
4. Blunt eye needle
5. Four stitch markers
6. Thimble
7. Needle threader
8. Sewing pins + pin cushion
9. Scissors
10. Disappearing fabric marker

 

What to practice?

Homework requires you to practice the following techniques, as the nature of the workshop is so intense, that I need you to come knowing how to do this basic things.

a) Hand sewing

  • Ladder and Whip stitch (video)
  • Quilter's knot (video)
  • Quilter's End knot (video)

b) Crochet

  • Single crochet (check out this series, it takes you from the very basic up to lesson 6)
  • Half double crochet (video)

 

Supliers

This is a list of online suppliers where you can find all the supplies you will need to create a doll on your own.

Canada

Bear Dance Crafts | Natalie sells De Witte Engel fabric and lots of other supplies

The Olive Sparrow | Monika sells the spiral felting needles and lots of doll making supplies

Custom Woolen Mills | Wool Quilting batting

 

US

Reggie's Dolls | Reggie - sells De Witte Engel fabric, as well as wool batting

Weir Crafts | they sell everything, but also the doll making mohair "Wild Brushable"

Serendipity Dollworks | glas beads plus a few other doll making supplies

 

Europe

Little Oke Dolls | Debbie, she is the maker of "Wild Brushable" mohair yarn

Kamrin’s Poppenatelier | Kamrin is the maker of "Dolly Mo" mohair yarn

Wollknoll | lots of doll making supplies, based in Germany

 

Any questions feel free to reach me at fabs@figandme.com