If you're interested in taking a class with Patti, see the "On The Road Classes"  Listed below!  On-line Classes will be forth coming, so come back often to watch for that announcement.

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These are the classes I teach to guilds, clubs, shops, etc.  If you are interested please contact me for further details.

3-days/All levels

Working in silk is exciting and rewarding. Combining patterns from two of my books, a beautiful doll is created. During class a simple wire armature is taught, along with creating an Asian face and coloring the face and body with Shiva Paintstiks. Clothing is dyed using several techniques and her corset and pouch are made using felting techniques. Silk cocoons and simple beadwork finish the embellishments on this beautiful doll.

Creative Cloth Doll Faces

1-day/All levels

Learn fail safe ways of creating the face you want.  Working with Patti's book, of the same title, Patti will show you her tips on placing features then making them more expressive.  Techniques taught are placement of features, sculpting a more dimensional head, using colored pencils, water colors and oil paint stiks to add color.
 

Creative Cloth Doll Making

2 Days/All levels

Using my books each person will create their own unique doll.  Techniques learned:  Mixing and matching body parts; laying out of pattern pieces for best results; Sewing tips for better hands and faces; turning, wiring, stuffing & sculpting hands; drawing and sculpting a face; direct dyeing a cloth body; coloring the face with colored pencils.  An optional 3rd day teaches creating fabrics with Heat Transfer Paints; free motion machine work to create clothing and shoes; beadwork

Creative Cloth Explorations

 2-days/All levels

This is a class heavy in design work.  Using oil paint sticks, stencils, rubbing plates, all kinds of silk fibers, Tyvek, Angelina, organza, cottons, rubber stamps, paint, dyes, beads, felting attachments and/or needles along with machine work beautiful flat objects are created which can be used on dolls, quilts, wearable’s, journals, etc.

Elysia - A Friendship Fairy 15-inch all cloth doll

2-day/All levels

Using colored pencils dimension is created to give depth to the body and face on this beautiful doll. Other techniques taught are creating whimsical clothing and wings with collage and heated organza; using the embellisher to create unique shoes and simple beadwork.