Oct 8

Oct 8 Learn to Make a Waldorf Inspired Doll

It was bound to happen and it has happened. My Waldorf -Inspired Doll Online Class is now open to new students and you can learn, at your own pace, guided with gentleness and expertise, how to make a simple and beautiful Waldorf-inspired doll.

Make it for yourself, for your little, for your inner child, for your Grandma. Make as many as you want, the more the merrier! I can almost guarantee you will fall in love with doll making by using this tried-and-tested pattern and traditional (but updated) cloth doll making techniques.

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How to make a Waldorf-inspired doll. Online course with Fig and Me.

I am in love with doll making. I think it’s such a rounded art form, hobby, craft activity. There is so much to learn, experiment and toy with when you make a doll 🥰, but when you go at it using these wonderful materials there is just a special kind of magic that still now, 16 years later, I have not been able to decipher.

Be it the wool and its magical properties, the soft tactile experience of working with 100% cotton knit, the preciousness of making a doll that resembles a child (perhaps your own or your favourite story character), the unbelievable tenderness of embroidered eyes or the enchanting beauty of a fluffy mohair wig. All of these factors contribute holistically to imbue the dolls with a special je-ne-sais-quoi that is not there in other types of dolls.

I love ALL dolls, don’t get me wrong. But after these many years I have found that these cloth dolls have a very special hold over our imagination and perhaps they are just the ones speaking the most to me.

So I decided to turn one of my most successful patterns into a Beginner ‘s Doll Making Course. I say beginner of course, but it is not for complete beginners.

If you have never made a doll in your life, I recommend first you make this little pair of dolls with the help of my free video series. Try them out for size and speed and then tackle the doll course.

You will learn how to make a proper doll head, one that will withstand many years of play. You will also learn to stuff a cute and chubby body, make a round bum and pudgy knees. How to embroider doll eyes, add ears, blush your doll, partially needle felt a face still with simplicity in mind and how to make doll hair.

All from the comfort of your home, at your own pace. We all live mad lives, whether you are retired and at the beck and call of your grandchildren, or you have to run after the ducks and chickens and water the garden non-stop, or perhaps you still have little ones at home and the mere thought of doing something for yourself feels like such a luxury, something to dream about. Well, this might be just the thing for you.

Turning this pattern into an online course was just what I needed, creatively. It reconnected me with a past season of my life, when I had just started to publish doll patterns; with the simplicity of Waldorf-inspired dolls, with teaching more beginner techniques but adding a little bit of spice just to bring things “up to snuff”.

The doll made with this class is just a breath of fresh air in the studio! I made a year-long dressmaking series (on Patreon) for the Little Fig and now I will turn all those video tutorials into a full dressmaking class so you can get to dress your doll as soon as you’re finished.

No more guessing which patterns will fit. No more frantically scouting Pinterest for adaptations. All these patterns are made just for this little doll and you can, of course, let your imagination run wild, embroider, use laces, pick your favourite buttons, repurpose loved clothes from your little ones and knit for her/him as well.

The world really is your oyster my friends, when you start making dolls.

For now, the class will be open to new students during October, the month I discovered doll making. Perhaps this will be your special month too.

Once you enrol, you have access to all the class content for four months. This will give you enough time to work on your doll, perhaps make a second or third one and by the end of that period you should be an accomplished Little Fig maker.

I give a set limit of time because I know that if we just make things far away into the distance, we might never put scissors to cloth. It is in my best interest that you actually work on your doll, that you discover doll making with wool and felting needles, that you develop your own doll making muscles and that you make your doll dreams a reality. Why?

Because I really believe in the power of dolls. Of creativity. Of imbuing your life with more of what you feel called upon.

You can do this. One little stitch 🧵 at a time.

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