- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Krause (Jan 17 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0873418069
- ISBN-13: 978-0873418065
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 513 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,284,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A book waiting to get written..." -- Doll Magazine, July 2001.
Product Description
Readers will learn how to turn their stumbling blocks into stepping stones through this unique approach to doll making. The author shows you how to open doors to creativity, healing, and wholeness by making dolls that express their feelings, desires and ideas. This book lets you create dolls by various means, including sewing, knitting, embroidery, crocheting, and weaving and learn about flat doll making, a new approach to making sturdy, jointed paper and card stock dolls. It includes more than three dozen dolls, clothing, and accessories, complete instructions, and full-doll making templates.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Someone what I was looking for.,
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This review is from: Soul Mate Dolls (Paperback)
This is not a book on how to make plush dolls; this is a book on how to make jointed paperdolls. The ideas for embellishment are OK, but all in all I was dissapointed. I was looking for a more creative stuffed doll book. Some of the patterns were very nice, however, if you're looking for paper doll patterns or for pleasant looking faces. Many of the patterns, with a little adjustment, can be made into a plush doll. The book did have a very niec weaving technique, as well. Also, the 'spiritual excersizes' leave a lot to be desired. To me, they seemed to be how a non-Wicca person sees Wicca. Too much emphasis was placed on the dolls and not the person creating them. This is one book any library won't weep without.
3.0 out of 5 stars
disappointingly slight,
By A Customer
This review is from: Soul Mate Dolls (Paperback)
I was not impressed with this book on either a spiritual or artistic level. The spiritual exercises were obvious and thin, and the dolls themselves didn't do much for me. I didn't learn much from this book. Perhaps my expectations were too high because I was hoping for something similar to Cassandra Light's _Way of the Doll_. I did think that some of the exercises and dolls would be useful for a class or group where you didn't want to go into too much detail on either the dollmaking or spiritual exercises. In particular, some of the paper dolls techniques were nice and would be easy to do for people without a strong craft background. A beginner to crafts or spiritual exercises might get more from this than I did.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good for a Group,
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This review is from: Soul Mate Dolls (Paperback)
The book is charming, with lots of ideas for creating one-of-a-kind dolls. DEFINITELY not your usual Raggedy-Annes or floppy nonentities. If I were leading a women's retreat, either for my church or for a women's group, then I would want to use this book to help others exercise their hands and their souls at the same time. For me, harried mom of a toddler, who makes her dolls on the run, while coping with wind, toads large dogs and spraying hoses, however, the book did not offer much. Buy it if you have the time and inclination to do a lot more thinking than sewing.
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