April 2006 - "Woven Tapestry And Needle Felted Doll"

April 2006: I taught my class called “WOVEN TAPESTRY AND NEEDLE FELTED DOLL” to members of “Hello Dollies” doll club located in Sun City Summerlin – Las Vegas Nevada. They each received a potholder loom that they could keep and learned how to weave a doll’s body on it using several tapestry techniques. For the doll’s head, they were given fleece and felting needles and they learned how to roll and poke their fleece into a head shape. 

I then taught them how to make the eyes, chin, nose, mouth, eyelids and more to make their dolls come alive. They crocheted the arms and made the doll’s legs out of purchased wool felt that they sewed and then they embellished the shoes with yarn or fleece with their felting needles.