Make Your Own Animal Friends 10 Cute Cloth Dolls to Sew, Dress Up and Personalize

by Ferris, Katia

• ISBN13: 9781837832941
• ISBN10: 1837832943
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-09-30
• Publisher: Quadrille

Summary

Doll-making can be simple and spontaneous, or it can be very detailed and even, to be honest, sort of fiddly. There are endless approaches to doll-making, from the basic to the complicated, each with its own joys and challenges.

This book will walk you through the first steps from imagining a design to showing you how to add personality to your animal characters. Featuring patterns for a bunny, cat, dog, bear, monkey, fox, kitten, and mouse ­– stitch up your own menagerie of fabric friends to gift or keep. The projects will increase with difficulty as you make your way through the variety of skills, approaches, and methods covered. There will also be a mix-and-match component that will give you the option to personalise your own characters as well as a basic wardrobe with simple ideas for cute clothing to accessorise your makes. Doll-maker and designer, Katia Ferris will tackle all those common problems toymakers face as well as the variety of methods needed to confidently stitch up your own dolls from scratch. Packed with stunning lifestyle photography and step-by-step instructions, this book will cover everything you need to bring your own animal characters to life.

Author Biography

Katia Ferris is an artist, maker and designer living in San Francisco, California with her husband, two magical daughters, dream dog Echo and kitty boy, Ernest. She is best known as a textile artist and doll-maker working under the brand name Luckyjuju. Encouraged by her young daughters, doll-making soon became the primary medium for her creative pursuits and she found that being largely self-taught in the textile arts allowed her to explore techniques and materials with curiosity and freedom. Katia developed the design for the iconic Luckyjuju Kitty doll in 2013 and launched her business. Her dolls are now collected internationally and she has gone on to expand her line of original doll designs. Her doll-making mantra: When in doubt, put a pompom on it.