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Sewing and Sculpting Dolls: Easy-To-Make Dolls from Fabric, Modeling Paste, and Polymer Clay

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Wow! I had no idea one may create dolls in so many various ways! Eloise Piper teaches fabric, modeling paste, and polymer clay doll-making with patterns included in her book. She includes plain Amish children, fancy dolls, wig creating, sculpting facial features, decorating and dressing the doll. She even includes patterns for their tiny clothing! She gives embellishment ideas as well. Furthermore, Eloise has a very delightful style of writing that brings her dolls to life! I greatly enjoy authors like Eloise who present their art in a down-to-earth and humorous fashion. Not only does one enjoy creating the dolls and their adorable wardrobes, but one may count on a chuckle or two from Eloise's light-hearted humor.

This book is a keeper for those who are looking for resources which address the multiple and various techniques of creating dolls.

Happy doll making!

I have the author's other book on dolls,which is also excellent. What the author shows is that using one simple to construct cloth doll body you can make literally thousands of different style dolls, by simply sewing/adding joints, lengthing patterns, changing outfit, hair, etc...
beautiful photos of dolls for play or show; simple face designs take headache out of creating the doll.

Also shows how to "deconstruct" old clothes to make new clothes for the dolls-very imaginative. This book also goes into using clay-but with a beginner in mind. I definitely recommend!

Just received this book today and I can't put it down! The book is the most complete how-to book I have ever seen. Eloise has put the book together from beginner to advanced with a lot of thought for the inexperienced doll-maker. Every aspect of doll-making is completely covered and I would highly recommend this book to anyone !

This is an acceptable book, but nothing special, really. Some of the small dolls are rather cute, but the techniques, particularly those involving clay are very basic, and not explored particularly well. It's nice as far as it goes, but not anything for those who have made dolls before or have much experience.

After buying Ms Piper's Batik book, I found she had written this wonderful book on dolls. I gave it to all my nieces for Christmas and I got so many thanks. Everyone loved this book!! The processes outlined are so creative, not copy-cat. The photographs are glorious. My family is now planning a reunion to visit the Kansas City Doll and Miniature museum so we can see this amazing woman's work.

this book is real good . there is some real good patterns in this book. if you like dolls . this is a real great book on making dolls

I like to make dolls for my special needs grandchild. This book showed me how to combine my enjoyment of both sewing and polymer clay crafting for really great results. The dolls are always unique, even if I use the same pattern. It is so easy to customize each for a unique character. This book was definitely a great addition to my craft library.

I'm new to doll making. I am enjoying this book. I also recommend a doll book for fun reading, Dolls Aren't Just for Kids.