To book Colleen for a class e-mail at: colleenbabcock@uwclub.net
Finders Keepers
A 2 day workshop
This little imp is a bit of thief! She just can’t help stealing stuff from humans. With a pen clutched in her tail and her pockets stuffed full, she also carries some pilfered booty on her back in her upturned hands. Finders Keepers hands are perfect for holding your business cards, recipe cards or a treasured photo.
This class covers drawing and sculpting a face as well as wiring and shaping a simple mitten hand. Finders Keepers’ body is then created with a wire armature that is wrapped to create a realistic body shape. Those students wishing for a more relaxing and simple class can keep the body proportions of their doll to the standard of the 13” sample doll, while students seeking more of a challenge can alter the body proportions of their doll to suit. It is recommended that students wishing to alter their doll’s proportions also take the ‘Drafting Doll Clothes’ workshop which makes an excellent partner class to Finders Keepers.
The methods learned in this class are invaluable as the same method of body construction can be adapted to use with any doll head and hands, including cloth or clay.
Download Finders Keepers Supply List in PDF format.
Drafting Doll Clothes
A 1 day workshop
A class in technique, this workshop is suitable for those wishing to draft and design their own doll clothes. Students will bring an undressed doll (of any design) and learn to make a ‘basic block’ – the starting point of drafting all clothing. Basic techniques will be discussed and then students will draft and drape any costume that they like from a picture using those techniques.
This class can be taught as a stand alone class, but it is also an excellent class to be partnered with Finders Keepers as students can learn to manipulate body proportions while making Finders Keepers and then create any clothing pattern that they wish to suit those proportions, using the skills learned in the Drafting Doll Clothes workshop.
Gather Ye Rosebuds
A 2 day workshop
This doll exists as a pattern, but sometimes there is nothing better than making the pattern with the designer right there. Gather Ye Rosebuds is an intermediate level, 15” cloth doll with a working clock built into the base. The class will guide you through every aspect of making this cloth doll including drawing and sculpting the face, creating the stump base out of thick felt, sewing the separate neck, printing the apron fabric using printer ready cotton sheets, creating the costume, inserting the clock, and crafting small details like the ribbon roses and tiny leather shoes.
As this class already exists as a pattern it is required that students purchase the pattern and kit (total $30) if they do not already own both.
Download Gather Ye Rosebuds Supply List for class in PDF format.
Class length - 1 day, 6 hours per day
Fee - $250 per day
Travel, food and accommodation expenses must be included.
Please contact me if you have any questions, I would be happy to help.
Click to download a contract to send to Colleen: Download Colleen Babcock contract
