Twenty to Make: Art Dolls eBook

Anything, including paper, wood, wire, threads, beads and baubles, can be used to make this collection of easy-to-make art dolls.

Following in the footsteps of Wild Women by the same author, also in the 20 to Make series, these fabulous figures are fun to create and use simple techniques that anyone can master. Includes twenty different designs and an alternative design of each one that can be made using the same techniques.

• Twenty great designs
• Twenty fabulous alternatives
• Clear step-by-step instructions
• Easy and fun to make

Sarah studied in the UK for the City & Guilds in Creative Embroidery, earning the highest merit awarded.

Sarah has continued to develop her own work, exhibiting widely giving talks, demonstrations and workshops, undertaking commissions and organising exhibitions.

Recently Sarah has undertaken a post-graduate course to support all the work she has done over the last ten years with elderly and disadvantaged young people.

Sarah works as a freelance textile artist and tutor. She exhibits her work widely, having taken part in over 40 group exhibitions since 1991, as well as several solo exhibitions.

Sarah runs many courses on felting, embroidery, beading and surface construction etc. for a diverse range of groups.

If you think that dolls are just for children, you haven't seen any art dolls. Express yourself any way you wish with these creations, made from just about anything you can think of and many you can't and fill your home with conversation pieces worth talking about.

This book takes inspiration from some of the earliest art of all, with mother goddess figures, abstract shapes, mermaids, jumping jacks, peg dolls and more. I think you really need to see this book to understand what it is all about, but a lot of it is about celebrating individuality and showing how far you can get from the basic human form in some projects and still create something "human".

Pegs, tin cans, buttons, ready-made doll forms, beads, wire, wood and paper are a few of the surprising materials pressed into service and made into these amazing creations. Create an African doll out of wire, string buttons onto thread to make a person, adorn an artist's model and create an almost amoebic figure out of glass beads, with a glass heart. This being a Twenty to Make book each of the twenty projects has another idea for a variation on the basic theme.

This is as much about letting your imagination run riot as following formal instructions, and is all rather liberating. The craft book to buy for anybody who wants to have a go at something a bit different.