Sew Your Own Toys: Design and Make Fabric Friends to Gift or Keep

Discover how to sew your own charming cloth animal dolls with this beautiful book.

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 rabbit, owl, cat, dog, bear, monkey, fox, kitten, and mouse ­- stitch up your own menagerie of fabric friends to gift or keep. The projects range in difficulty, allowing you to build on your skills as your progress through the pages of this book. Mix-and-match designs to personalise your you own dolls and create a basic wardrobe with simple, cute clothing patterns to sew and accessorise your makes.

Doll-maker and designer, Katia Ferris provide expert guidance, helping you to sew confidently from scratch. Packed with stunning lifestyle photography and step-by-step illustrations, this book covers everything you need to bring your own animal characters to life.

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.