Create your Waldorf doll (inspired)
Doll making
Description
A complete video instructional guide to create your own Waldorf inspired doll. Includes a complete selected list of required materials, tools to use and of course a doll pattern.
The doll making process:
Preparation
Materials and tools required
Doll jersey & layout patterns
Sewing embroidery and crochet basics
Build
Body parts trace, cut and sew
Head creation
Head felting
Detailing
Face Detail – with wood hoop – Technique A
Face Detail – without wood hoop – Technique B
Making Hair
Doll Dressing
Adding special effects
Materials required
Doll Jersey (Round-knitted Jersey) - 100% Cotton (body) 50cm/19" length by 140cm/55" width
Pure Wool
Tubing (head) 18cm/7" of tube
Upholstery Needles: Long 19cm/7.5" Medium 10cm/ 4" Small 4.5cm/1.8"
Embroidery thread (eyes, mouth)
Fine needle
Embroidery wood hoop
Stitching thread
Sewing thread
Crochet thread
Quality scissors
Mohair wool
Pattern (included in Resources Folder)
Coloured yarn (hair)
Wool roving (head) 42cm/16.5"
Crochet cap (instructions included)
Felting Needles 38 & 40 gauge
Crayons (face)
Stitching pins
Pen invisible ink
Circular markers
Measuring tape
KAFKA
Some stories are magical and this particularly one breaks my heart:
Franz Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park where he went walking daily. She was crying. She had lost her doll and was desolate.
Kafka offered to help her look for the doll and arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot. Unable to find the doll he composed a letter from the doll and read it to her when they met.
“Please do not mourn me, I have gone on a trip to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.” This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the little girl met he read her from these carefully composed letters the imagined adventures of the beloved doll. The little girl was comforted.
When the meetings came to an end Kafka presented her with a doll. She obviously looked different from the original doll. An attached letter explained: “my travels have changed me... “
Many years later, the now grown girl found a letter stuffed into an unnoticed crevice in the cherished replacement doll. In summary it said: “everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.” F.Kafka
What You Will Learn!
- Learn all the techniques of Waldorf inspired doll making
- Learn to do intricate felting work
- Learn how to do a dolls face
- Learn special effects to enhance the quality of the doll
Who Should Attend!
- For all that love to create