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Cloth Doll Making CDs, DVDs and Patterns by Mimi's Patterns By Gloria J. "Mimi" Winer
Mimi, A Gifted Doll Designer, passed in 2017 after a five year battle with cancer.
Mimi's husband is continuing her legacy by keeping her Patterns, DVDs and CDs available to the doll community.
Needle Model a Pretty Face DVD By Gloria “Mimi” Winer Every dollmaking reference library needs this phenomenal DVD!
2-disc DVD set with 4 hours 48 minutes of over-the-shoulder video.
31 easy to navigate chapters covering every aspect of head construction
2 copies of the pattern sheet printed on heavy card stock.
Standard 2-disc DVD plastic case for storage.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 4 hour 48 minute over-the-shoulder DVD video filled with the complete contents of Mimi's 2-day dollmaking workshop.
Suitable for all levels. If you can do basic machine sewing to make the seams on the skull and the darts on the face overlay, you will learn everything else you need from watching the step-by-step video.
Mimi's Mannequins and Pattern Draping DVD
Mimi's Mannequins and Pattern Draping is finally finished and it is spectacular! We have condensed the 4-day dollmaking workshop and the 2-day pattern draping workshop into almost 6 hours of classroom video full of techniques for dollmaking. We began this project almost 5 years ago, and we got interrupted by cancer. Now we're back on track with the best dollmaking workshop ever.
Mimi's Mannequins presents quarter-scale male and female mannequins as separate patterns with a single set of instructions for both. The Mannequins workshop is all about techniques and the similarity of the human form. Mimi's Pattern Draping shows you how to create patterns for clothing that will fit your own dolls. It uses the mannequins as tailor's dummies for draping the clothing patterns.
In addition to the video, Mimi's Mannequins includes:
A Shopping List e-book that you can copy to your phone or tablet (or print out) to take to the crafts store with you.
The pattern sheets can be printed on your own printer, or you can take them to an office supply store or copy center.
After watching the videos, you can use the included step-by-step, photo-by-photo storyboards on your phone, tablet, or computer to make the dolls and clothing. You can refer back to the video anytime you need it.
Who is it For?
The go-at-your-own-pace, step-by-step, picture-by-picture storyboards make Mimi's Mannequins & Pattern Draping suitable for all levels of doll makers from beginner to advanced. You need some hand sewing and machine sewing experience, and it's not really for first time (novice) dollmakers. It is particularly good for those who have trouble fitting clothes on dolls.
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(or Multi Region DVD Players)
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Mimi's Modular Mermaid DVD By Gloria “Mimi” Winer
Now you can take a private, 6-Day Dollmaking Workshop with Mimi with no travel required!
6 DVDs — 20 Lessons — 163 Chapters
12 Hours 58 Minutes of Classroom Video!
Here are just a few of the many HOW TOs included in the instruction:
Precision machine sewing.
Stuffing smoothly and firmly using the right tools.
Make your seams beautiful so that they are part of the design
Make hands that can grasp objects.
Make webbed hands without having to turn fingers
Make and needle model a lovely female torso.
Make 3 types of poseable hands and arms.
Make 4 different poseable tails.
Make 3 different types of flukes.
Create many different poses using modular arms, tails, and flukes.
Needle model a female face.
Use dyes and watercolor effects to paint mermaids.
Bead a stuffed figure.
Weft mohair and other fibers for wigging a doll.
Suitable for all skill levels, this classroom on a DVD
will take your dollmaking skills to new heights!
DVD Format - REGION 1 - USA and Canada DVD Players
(or Multi Region DVD Players)
DVD Sample
Wefting Fibers for Doll Hair
Mimi's Cloth Doll Making Patterns - Print Versions
Mimi's patterns are very detailed with many pages and full sized patterns.
All patterns included color pictures of finished dolls.
Bertie - Print Version
Mimi's Bertie is a delightful 16", muslin, Seventeenth Century Barmaid doll. This teaching pattern has easy-to-follow instructions. You will learn to make a simple needle modeled face or a 3-dimensional face with a trapunto nose. You can draw, paint, or embroider the eyes. Special instructions for easy eye painting help you learn how. Learn to make hands with posable fingers.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 32 page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
Annie Agnes is a 16-inch muslin doll with button jointed shoulders and hips and with Mimi's updated version of the classic "sling" button joint at the knee. She has a young, full figured, anatomically proportioned body.
Annie can also be made from Deer Suede which provides a very nice skin texture. The pattern includes instructions for painting stripes on the legs, for wefting mohair, and for making a pin-woven vest. Excellent costuming ideas — great skirts and blouses.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 44 page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
Blossom - Print Version Universal folk dancer with variations.
Blossom is a delightful 16-inch muslin cloth doll with easy instructions for beginners. The pattern also includes more advanced techniques for experienced dollmakers. The mature female body with included optional face, hand, leg, and armature variations can be made into your own characters. The versatile, anatomically proportioned, quarter-scale body will also accept hard media head, hands, and feet.
Change her pose and costume for any dance or ethnic origin.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 36-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
Victoria Rose is an easy-to-make, armatured, 16-inch, free-standing cloth doll. She has a young, full-figured, anatomically-proportioned body with a late 19th Century silhouette.
You have a choice of three faces:
• a very easy traced face, embroidered or colored
with pencils and/or crayons
• a trapunto (quilted) face
• a sophisticated needle-modeled face
Victoria Rose's clothing was meticulously researched. Instructions and patterns included for her undergarments, lined walking skirt, a dickey, a lined jacket, and a beautiful hat. Her Victorian boots are paperclay covered with glove leather.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 56-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
The Queen's Jester is a 16-inch tall button jointed doll with a young, masculine, anatomically proportioned body.
This pattern teaches Mimi's variation on the antique sling-button joint. The Queen's Jester is jointed at the shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. The pattern also includes complete instructions for needle-modeling a handsome face and buff body.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 44-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
Happy Birthday Honey – Print Version Award Winning Doll
Mimi's Happy Birthday Honey is a 16-inch cloth doll with easy instructions for beginners. The pattern also includes more advanced techniques for experienced dollmakers. The mature female body with included optional face, hand, leg, and armature variations can be made into your own characters. The versatile, anatomically proportioned, quarter-scale body will also accept hard media head, hands, and feet.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 44-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
Mimi's Father Christmas is a fabulous teaching pattern and is easier than ever. This magnificent, 20" muslin doll helps you learn new techniques.
• Learn to make a simple needle-modeled
face or a 3-dimensional trapunto face.
• Learn to make easy mitten hands or
beautiful, open-fingered hands. • Learn to make wired or stuffed fingers.
Use the optional armature to make a wonderful, free-standing figure on a wooden base, or skip the armature for easier stuffing.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 32-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings and hints for dollmakers.
Jazz is a 16-inch tall, stand alone doll with a young, full-figured, anatomically proportioned body.
This pattern teaches you how to make my new modular armature. With the modular armature, and paperclay-covered shoes, Jazz can stand alone. The pattern includes complete instructions for needle-modeling a pretty face and body.
Pattern includes choices of 3 faces and 3 costumes.
Full-sized, cut-out patterns and 56-page instruction book filled with pictures, drawings, and hints for dollmakers.
We have condensed the 4-day dollmaking workshop and the 2-day pattern draping workshop into almost 6 hours of classroom video full of techniques for dollmaking. We began this project almost 5 years ago, and we got interrupted by cancer. Now we're back on track with the best dollmaking workshop ever.
