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Teach Yourself Dollmaking: Simple Techniques and Patterns for Dolls and Doll Clothes (Teach Yourself Series)

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This book is a godsend to those who want to learn about cloth dollmaking. Each step of making a doll, from basic sewing, to making the face or hair, to choosing fabrics and making clothing is covered in great detail. There are also patterns included for several dolls, each slightly more advanced than the one before it. The patterns cover several types of dolls - simple pancake dolls, a baby and 2 toddler dolls, and fantasy type dolls. It's definitely worth owning, even if you are an experienced dollmaker

This book is a wonderful place to start to learn how to make soft dolls. The patterns and instructions are well written and easy to follow. After following the author's patterns, new ideas were easy to incorporate. I have made angels and dolls for all of my family. Every Christmas, an angel inspired by this book looks down from eight different trees. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to start making cloth dolls.

I love this book! I am a beginner sewer and dollmaker and I found this book to be easy to follow and understand. I can't stop making the adorable pocket dolls Jodie teaches in this book. TEACH YOURSELF CLOTH DOLLMAKING has a lot of cute little dolls, in color, featured throughout the whole book, created by different students and readers who used Jodie's patterns. It is fun and inspirational to see the many different kinds of dolls created from the same pattern. What I like most about the book is how the reader/dollmaker can create their own individual doll with it's own little personality. If you are new to dollmaking like I am I highly recommend this book! Easy to follow and easy to do!

I was very impressed with this book. The instructions are explained in a way that a beginner can understand them. I am thrilled how from one simple cut out (the first one) how many didderent looks you can create. It is so much fun because I do not get frustrated trying to figure out the instructions. I look forward to making more advanced dolls. The book was shipped out promptly and arrived in excellent condition. The price was fantastic. It would make a very nice gift also.

This book is wonderful for beginner doll makers. It is easy and has a lot of doll patterns that are very easy to make. It starts from the very easy and progresses to more complicated-but not hard-dolls. You can start out with the easy ones and graduate to the harder dolls. Easy to follow. Has all the patterns in the book. I highly recommend this book. Even highly skilled doll makers-like myself-can find this book useful.