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Creating Heavenly Hats For Discriminating Dolls

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This book includes everything you need to know in order to make hats for all sorts of dolls in all sizes. It doesn't just give you patterns for the numerous styles, it actually teaches you to make and design your own hats from scratch for any doll. Highly recommended for dollmakers/costumers/collectors/etc.!

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The first thing I enjoyed about this book was the way it stays open to the pages you are studying. Every instructional book should have a spiral binding!

The authors begin with the fundamentals and build on those to lead an experienced dollmaker or a novice into creating ever more delightful and unique hats for dolls (or stuffed animals, or even children's costumes, if you like).

The table of contents alone are intriguing, pulling you into the book: hats molded on innovative forms with easy to find materials, old fashioned dust caps, bonnets, soft hats, fur hats, costume hats, turbans, crowns, hats from unexpected materials, paper hats, picture hats, and on to delightfully trimmed hats and, of course, a hat stand to hold your creation.

The book is simply, but lavishly illustrated, many of the hats are easy to create and yet a great asset to your dolls wardrobe. There are some patterns to work with. The ideas are so numurous that a reader can't help but find their own imagination stimulated so that you will be dreaming up hats in your sleep.

A glossary, hatmaking resources, and a helpful index brings closure, but first the authors end this exciting book with a page full of ideas to send the reader confidently off on their own creative journey.

Not only a must have guide for dollmakers, but great fun too!