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Making a Doll with Rotating head
In this workshop I will show you step by step how to make a doll with a rotating head.
The finished doll will be 13" (app. 33 cm) tall.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS WORKSHOP?
• Everything about materials, tools & sources of supply
• Using an armature to make a rotating neck
• Needle felting a sweet face
• Covering the head with fabric without bumps and wrinkles
• Adding the facial features like lips and dimples
• How to embroidery doll's eyes
• Putting color on to the skin so that your doll becomes alive
• Making a doll-wig with mohair weft
• Stuffing the body, and attaching the pieces together
You'll get the patterns for the body so that you can use it for your later dolls.
You will bring the mohair wefts of your choice and a mohair yarn in fitting color with you to make the doll wig.
All other materials and tools will be provided during the workshop.
This workshop requires an intermediate level of knowledge in doll making.
The workshops takes place with minimum 4 participants.
Please note: The price is only for the participation to the workshop. It doesn't include any other facilities, like travel expanses, accommodation and meals.
On 25th & 26th November 2023
From 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
In Berlin, Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg
Price: 390 Euro
Puppenkurs für eine Puppe mit beweglichem Kopf
In diesem Workshop zeige ich euch Schritt für Schritt, eine Puppe mit drehbarem Kopf zu herstellen.
Die fertige Puppe wird ca. 33 cm groß sein.
WAS WIRST DU IN DIESEM WORKSHOP LERNEN?
- Alles über Materialien, Werkzeuge und Bezugsquellen
- Wie man mit einer Armatur einen drehbaren Hals herstellt
- Nadelfilzen eines süßen Gesichts
- Beziehen des Kopfes mit Stoff
- Hinzufügen der Details wie Lippen und Grübchen
- Wie man Puppenaugen stickt
- Auftragen von Farbe auf die Haut
- Herstellen einer Puppenperücke mit Mohair-Tressen
- Ausstopfen des Körpers und Zusammenfügen der Teile
Du bekommst die Schnittmuster für den Körper.
Für die Puppenperücke bringst du die Mohairtressen deiner Wahl und ein Mohairgarn in der passenden Farbe mit.
Alle anderen Materialien und Werkzeuge werden während des Workshops zur Verfügung gestellt.
Dieser Workshop erfordert ein mittleres Niveau an Kenntnissen in der Puppenherstellung.
Der Workshop findet mit mindestens 4 Teilnehmern statt.
Verflegung, Reise- und Übernachtungskosten sind nicht im Preis inbegriffen.
On 25 & 26 November 2023
Von 9:30 bis 17:30 Uhr
In Berlin, Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg
Teilnahmegebühr: 390 Euro
"I took a class with her in Belgium. She is such a good teacher. This class includes a pattern and making a weft into a wig.
Christmas Markets will have started!
If you want to make a giant step forward in your doll making this is the place to be!"
CatiAnn Handcrafted Original Dolls
Workshops at ewdor 2023 in Clairfontaine, Belgium
In this year’s EWDOR, I am offering two separate workshops, which can be combined with each other. You are welcome to attend either one of the workshops or both.
If you attend both workshops, you will learn how to make a completely needle felted 35 cm tall doll with a turning head.
However, if you are interested in expanding your knowledge in only one of the areas, you are also free to choose one you’d like.
These courses are suitable for you if you already have some experience in making dolls and want to learn new skills and techniques, or if you are a beginner at doll enthusiast with good sewing and crafting skills and strong nerves. In both cases, you need to have needle felting experience, as this is the main technique we will be using in both of the workshops. If you do not yet have the experience, I can lead you to some tutorials with which you can start learning to use this technique.
To reserve your spot you'll need to pay a deposit of 25 Euros for each workshop you wanted. This deposit is not refundable in case of a cancellation due to any unexpected causes out of my influence, as well as yours. The remaining part is to be paid at end of April.
These Workshops are fully booked.
Please keep in mind: To participate the workshops, you must enroll EWDOR on the organisation page here. The registration fees to EWDOR are not included to my workshop fees, nor the accommodations or other facilities. For all questions considering these points, please contact the organization, they will happily assist you. The policies for this event are to be found on the page of the organization.
To reserve your spot you'll need to pay a deposit of 25 Euros for each workshop you wanted. This deposit is not refundable in case of a cancellation due to any unexpected causes out of my influence, as well as yours.
Making a Needle felted Doll Head with Bendable neck
Duration: 2 days (Morning and afternoon sessions)
In this workshop I will show you step by step how to needle felt a dolls head and covering it with doll fabric. Working out the features like the lips and nose so that you’ll create a beautiful face with a perfect profile.
We will cover the head with fabric and make embroidered eyes.
Materials and tools will be provided during the workshop.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS WORKSHOP?
• Everything about materials, tools & sources of supply
• Using an armature to make a bendable neck
• Needle felting a sweet face
• Covering the head with fabric without bumps and wrinkles
• Adding the facial features like lips and dimples
• How to embroidery doll's eyes
• Making doll ears
• Putting color on the face so that it becomes alive
Head sculpting with needle felting technique
Sculpting a doll's head with the needle felting technique is getting interesting for many doll makers.
I have been using this method for some years now, and developed my own technique.
In this workshop I show you how to sculpt a head with its all details like the lips, nose, eyes, cheeks and a slender neck and to put the skin on it in a proper way.
This is a 1 day (two sessions) workshop.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS WORKSHOP?
• Everything about materials, tools & sources of supply
• Using an armature to make a bendable neck
• Some anatomical insights to the human head and learn to apply them to a doll's head.
• Needle felting a sweet face with beautiful lips and profile
Please notice, this workshop concentrates on the needle felting face sculpting. We are not aiming to cover the face with fabric, nor eye embroidery.
Materials and tools will be provided during the workshop.
slow doll making workshop (beginner)
Slow doll making workshops came from the need to bring the real feeling of doll making process into my workshops. In these workshops I rather like to meet you on four weekly morning sessions, so that you can put a week time between each step and reflect what you have done and will be doing next. This is mostly the real life situation, as creating a little soul takes lots of thinking along with all the crafting work.
We will be making a complete doll with body and the limbs and slightly needle felted face.
intensive weekend workshop (beginner)
Oh yes, I know about it! Working full time, coming back home and still have to function as a parent, partner, friend... The time is full, and you still want to break your routine and do something completely different...
Could you also be dreaming about just going out to buy some bread for the breakfast and ending up in Rome walking into the Colosseum feeling like a Gladiator?
To be honest, that is unfortunately not the feeling I promise you at this workshop :) But similar I would guess.
For those who do not have time in the week, the intensive weekend courses are the alternative. At the end you will be as tired as that Gladiator, and as happy as him for the victory :)
"Herzlichen Dank nochmal für den tollen Kurs!
Ich bin ganz glücklich mit meiner selbstgemachten Puppe. Nach dem langen Entscheidungsprozess Puppe kaufen, Puppe machen lassen und nun Puppe selbst machen fühlt
es sich vollkommen richtig an! Und es macht mich stolz und froh, dass ich die Puppe für mein Kind selbst gemacht habe. Dank Dir für die gute Anleitung und das Teilen Deines
Erfahrungsreichtums."
Birte E.
"Dear Gonca,
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, introducing and teaching us this beautiful craft of making a Waldorfdoll.
I enjoyed the making in the company of the other women, learning, hearing stories and expending my horizon while creating, and now this doll which I created
especially for my daughter, is a testimony of all that love."
Nait R.
small doll making workshop (beginner)
Even though doll making is mostly about slowing down the time, for many for us the time is still a very limited good. Although each of us have the same 24 hours a day, we all have different feeling of having enough time. Having so many balls in the air at the same time: work, kids, family, friends...
So I wished to offer a shorter workshop (two morning sessions) in which we make a little snuggle doll, which also fits for the beginners, who do not have any previous craft experience.
This workshop is also great opportunity for the becoming mothers during the last weeks before their babies' arrival to make a snuggle doll for them. You can make a bunny, or just a little baby doll. The snuggle doll is approximately 30 cm tall.
90 € including the material costs.
making doll hair
Several new materials are introduced to the doll world in the last couple of years by many very talented and creative doll makers.
Although a bit expensive, the natural look of the animal fibers like mohair, teeswater and alpaca fascinates more and more doll makers as well as collectors.
In this workshop I will inform you about the different sorts of natural hair that you can use and show how to crochet a cap with industrial mohair wefts for a doll's head with a circumference of
app. 25 cm. Once you learned the method, you can apply it to different types of your choice.
This is a half day workshop (one session).
