C Shively

Christine Shively

Class: Beaded Face Pin

1 day class: Friday, September 29, 2006

Kit fee: No

Sewing machine required: No

Level recommended for this class: All

Homework: No

This is a wonderful class. Christine will show you how to do basic bead appliqué, a spiral rope, picot as well as brick stitches to create this unique pin. Once the student has learned these basic techniques they will feel much more confident about enhancing clothing or embellishing a doll to make it into an extraordinary piece. The only advanced work necessary for the students is to bring an assortment of beads, basic craft felt, cardboard and ultra suede. Christine will provide a variety of faces for the student to choose from for this pin but if you prefer to bring one of your own designs, please do.

Class: "Sweetheart of the Rodeo": a Cowgirl

2 day class: Saturday & Sunday, September 30 & October 1,2006

Kit fee: No

Sewing machine required: Yes

Level recommended for this class: Intermediate to Advanced

Homework: Yes

This wonderful doll appears to have stepped out of the silent screen era of the 1930’s. Christine has incorporated many techniques and ideas within this class which will allow your doll to be quite expressive. She will teach you how to create a seated figure using a template method and wire the hands and fingers so that they may be shaped and posed. You will also learn to make a convincing bust line using the same fabric as the upper body, make a pieced cowboy boot, and learn to make a face using paints and pencils. Hair attachment and basic bead appliqué will also be demonstrated. Costuming choices will be made before and during class. Students will need to sew in advance: The body, blouse, cuffs and a skirt using a car chamois.

Bio:

Christine Shively has long had a love of dolls. Her affinity for fabric and costuming emerged when she began her doll making experience as a child and carried it through college and into the present. The fabric figures that she has created reflect the love that she has had for drawing and painting as well as sculpture and drama. Her sewing skills were developed in her college design classes, where she began to play with the possibilities.

She has taught art on the secondary level and now teaches her designs and techniques to students via clubs, conferences, quilt shops and other private venues. Over the years she has taught at Doll U, We Folk of Cloth and Doll Maker’s Magic seminars. Her dolls have also been displayed in various traveling shows such as in Celebration of the Doll and the quilt exhibits in Japan and London. Christine was also invited at two different times to create ornaments for the White House’s collection.

Each year she participates in a number of fine arts fairs though out the country, selling her finished dolls to eager collectors. Her work has been featured in various magazines and journals; Art Doll Quarterly, Soft Dolls & Animals and Contemporary Doll to name a few. In 2005 she became an active member of the Original Doll Artist Council of America (ODACA). She currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

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