Create your Waldorf doll (inspired)

A complete video instructional guide to create your own Waldorf inspired doll. Includes a complete selected list of required materials, tools to use and of course a doll pattern.

The doll making process:

Preparation

• Materials and tools required

• Doll jersey & layout patterns

• Sewing embroidery and crochet basics

Build

• Body parts trace, cut and sew

• Head creation

• Head felting

Detailing

• Face Detail – with wood hoop – Technique A

• Face Detail – without wood hoop – Technique B

• Making Hair

• Doll Dressing

• Adding special effects

Materials  required

Doll Jersey (Round-knitted Jersey)  - 100% Cotton (body)  50cm/19" length by 140cm/55" width

Pure Wool

Tubing (head)  18cm/7" of tube

Upholstery Needles: Long 19cm/7.5"  Medium 10cm/ 4"  Small 4.5cm/1.8"

Embroidery thread  (eyes, mouth)

Fine needle

Embroidery wood hoop

Stitching thread

Sewing thread

Crochet thread

Quality scissors

Mohair wool

Pattern (included in Resources Folder)

Coloured yarn (hair)

Wool roving (head) 42cm/16.5"

Crochet cap (instructions included)

Felting Needles  38 & 40 gauge

Crayons (face)

Stitching pins

Pen invisible ink

Circular markers

Measuring tape

                                                                                                 KAFKA

Some stories are magical and this particularly one breaks my heart:

Franz Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park where he went walking daily. She was crying. She had lost her doll and was desolate.

Kafka offered to help her look for the doll and arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot. Unable to find the doll he composed a letter from the doll and read it to her when they met.

“Please do not mourn me, I have gone on a trip to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.” This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the little girl met he read her from these carefully composed letters the imagined adventures of the beloved doll. The little girl was comforted.

When the meetings came to an end Kafka presented her with a doll. She obviously looked different from the original doll. An attached letter explained: “my travels have changed me... “

Many years later, the now grown girl found a letter stuffed into an unnoticed crevice in the cherished replacement doll. In summary it said: “everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.” F.Kafka