9. She Comes to Lure Us (Cheryl Smith)
Materials fee: $15, includes:
- Face fabric (high thread count cotton), pipe cleaners, floral tape, needle for sculpting face, shishas, felting needle, pattern
Bring to class:
- Sewing machine in good working order and knowledge of working it.
- Fabric: body – 1/2 metre solid or printed fabric with aquatic look. Batiks in water colours work well.
- Thread: matching poly for face; matching poly for body and arms; assorted novelty threads, including embroidery floss, Perle cotton, metallics;
cotton hand quilting thread to match face fabric – for needle sculpting.
- Needles and pins.
- Hand sewing and embroidery needles.
- Pencils and pens: pencil with eraser, pigma pens in black and brown; colour blender – only if you have one; Prisma colour pencils for face –
light, medium and dark in preferred colour for iris, assorted colours for eye shadow, white, black, pinks, or colour choice for lips and cheeks.
- 1 metre white freezer paper.
- Haemostats for stuffing – available at medical supply stores and some auto supply stores; long ones, about 10 ins are useful.
- Fairfield's Poly-fil – available at Michael's; do not use cotton.
- Finger turning tools – optional, if you don't own them, don't buy them.
- Artist's spray fixative – Krylon is good.
- Yarn or wool mohair for hair.
- Water soluble stabilizer – Solvy, H20 Gone, or any similar product, available at most quilting stores.
- Embroidery hoop for thread work on your sewing machine – needs to fit under pressure foot.
- Embellishing goodies: beads, embroidery threads and/or Perle cotton, metallic threads, fancy yarns, ribbons.
- Buttons – 2 No. 8541 or 3/4 inch for arms. They will be visible on the outside of the arms, so they should complement the attire.
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