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Creative Cloth Doll Beading: Designing and Embellishing with Beads

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Love it ! Love it!!
I have all of her previous books which are a treat for the eyes--and so is this one!!! It's Beautiful!! It didn't miss a beat! The collection of dolls in this book are unique and gorgeous. Wonderfully written--great techniques--and oh so colorful! Inspirational for any dollmaker or doll lover. It's a keeper. I'm so glad it finally came after having it on pre order for a while. It was worth the wait. Now, I'm off to make a doll!

I love Pattie's unusual style and I learn something new in everyone of her books and I have all but the faces one. My only complaint is having to add seam allowances on some pieces.I find it unnecessary and bothersome..but she must have a good reason for doing this I just don't like it. Also some of the instructions are vague for anyone with limited sewing skills. But it is always worth the time it takes to teach yourself if necessary.

Another great book by Patti. My only complaint would be that I would have liked more beading projects included. Also, I feel all her books could have more detailed instructions. But neither of these complaints would prevent me from buy more of her books.

Creative Cloth Doll Beading: Designing and Embellishing with Beads



Creative Cloth Doll Beading
Designing and Embellishing with Beads
by Patti Medaris Culea with Anne Hesse and Laura McCabe

* Beaded Tattoo's - what more can I say? How COOL!

* The collaboration of these three stellar dollmakers brings out the best in each artist.

* Great new Techniques for wings, hair, creative clothing and beautiful faces! Also... detailed directions on making flowers - WOW!

I am not really a beader... so I sighed when I got this book "Oh... tedium, oh schemedum, oh little tiny bead-ium" but what I saw knocked that apathy right into a shocked puddle on the studio floor which was dangerously slick... what with all those beads rolling all over the place!


What a killer book! Patti gets some able assistance from two of the doll making worlds finest, Anne Hesse and Laura McCabe. Just as she did in the wonderful Creative Cloth Doll Couture, Patti provides one versatile doll pattern. This pattern is used by all three main artists and the many talented "gallery" artists, to create a flock of beautiful and unique dolls.

Patti does a chapter on flowers, making them look wickedly easy and raucously beautiful. Anne has the next chapter and with her two comrades, she leads us through a bead embroidered face, now THIS is exciting to me! Next Laura creates a "wood elf" and beads her leather garment with several cool techniques, my favorite being the bead stacking. Finally Patti returns at the end of the book and gives us "Franalizia of the North Sea" who has scales of beads, and a wealth of burned, melted and glued beading and embellishment techniques. She is a "Fairymaid" Upp you guessed it, a mermaid with wings, extremely clever!

Off to the right here... is my version of the beaded head... Ok, so I didn't draw the face onto the fabric and I didn't use a rubber stamp (tho this is a great idea!) , I basically didn't follow any of the directions, (tho they are great!) but I did get INSPIRED and I did LEARN about "Wedges", "Focal Beads" and "Fill Patterns". I also learned how to make fringe, and flowers and what a "bud" is. (this was welcome news to me as it associated with the "bezel" and I can't help but sit around snickering about "budding the bezel" or "bezelling the bud" - Yeah, just alittle easily amused... Ya think?!)

I highly recommend this book for us "regular folk" as well as the seasoned beaders. Hum, now where did my charolottes go, I need to do a basic bud on that bezel!

This would be a great gift

Patti writes the best books. This one has lots of eye candy, precise instructions and ideas to get you going. I feel confident that my next doll will be wonderful using her techniques! This is a must have book for all dollmakers out there!

I'm SOOOOO disappointed that the Kindle edition is not in color. I've acquired kindle graphics books for free that were in color, and it's such a big part of her artistry that .... Well, I've gotta get the print version.

I bought the Kindle Version,of this book for my iPad, it is very disappointing as it is in black and white and very poor quality photos. the cover is in colour in the Kindle Store, so I assumed the book would be as well. I have purchased other craft books for my iPad and these have amazing with high quality photos so I am very disappointed with this book. There should be a warning if the book is in black and white.

This and the other books in the series by Patti Medaris Culea are great resources for the doll maker. She shows detailed instructions for various dolls as well as beautiful examples from various well known doll designers, using these same patterns. Her instructions are detailed, clear and well illustrated. The examples are wonderful and the book is worth it just for browing the examples. Great book!

This is a beautiful book and very informative, as all of Patti's books are. I have all four of her books and I have learned a great deal from them. The instructions are very detailed and easy to follow. The pictures are beautiful and very inspiring. I would recommend this book/author to any cloth dollmaker who wishes to perfect her skills and make beautiful dolls.

Book is a great resource for all cloth doll makers. Pictures in the book are detailed. Instructions are very thorough. Each chapter gives a different technique,some facial beading. Great buy for all the information Pattie Culea gives you. The colors are phenominal. The patterns are also great.