elinor peace bailey

Optional Thursday

Day-Trippin' with elinor

Thursday, August 9, 2007

This is an optional activity that promises to be tons of fun. Elinor will be your escort and guide through a variety of shops and stores. Under Elinor’s tutelage you will begin to look at the ordinary from a completely new perspective. You will learn to notice the potential and ponder what-if?

While you are learning, you will also be playing a game to sharpen and hone those new found skills. Your mission is to gather and assemble a “Day Trippin’ Doll” from your new found treasures. Each participant will receive a set of rules to the challenge when they arrive for the bus tour at 9:00am Thursday. At every meal from Thursday’s lunch on the tour to Saturday night dinner at the college, tour attendees will each receive a small trinket to include with their doll. A completion award will be given to each one who finishes the challenge by the Sunday Night Campfire. All are welcome to join. It promises to be so much fun!

Doll Maker's Choice

Choose any one of elinor's patterns @ www.epbdolls.com

Bring supplies as called for on the back of pattern,

and elinor will help you to create the doll of your choice.

1 day class: Friday August 10, 2007

Kit fee: None

Sewing machine required: Yes

Skill Level recommended for this class: All

Doll Body's Language

1 day class: Saturday August 11, 2007

Kit fee: $13 includes booklet and fabric

Sewing machine required: No

Skill Level recommended for this class: All

Description of Class:

The Doll’s Body Language

This is a new class in which you will learn to create a doll form that will emphasize the communication between you and the viewers of your dolls. The characteristics of a personality can be to portrayed using body language as a via. How you present your image will influence how your message will be received. By means of lecture and examples, elinor will lead you through various ideas which can be portrayed by means of positioning the limbs and body of the doll. Each student will be able to select and make one of the 10 different forms that elinor has designed for this class. Included in the kit fee will be a fat quarter of hand dyed fabric plus elinor’s booklet, “The Doll’s Body Language”.

Spontaneous Combustion

1 day class: Sunday August 12, 2007

Kit fee: $3.50 1/4 yd Fast2fuse from elinor

Sewing machine required: No

Skill Level recommended for this class: All

Description of Class:

Come and join the fun with Spontaneous Combustion! Bring a shoebox of stuff from your stash of marvelous goodies; (you know you have them) some to use and some to share. Design something from theitems you find at hand and some that you bring from home. A sewing machine is optional but you might need to bring Fabritac and hand sewing items. Purchase a ¼ yard of Fast-2 Fuse and pull out the stops. Have an idea to make a doll into a book or maybe a book into a story doll? Play with concepts and don’t be afraid to mix up different medias. Play with anything from paint and pastels to fabric with glue. Create, create, and create! Learn to think on your feet and twist your ideas to make a new concept. It is so empowering to create!

elinor peace bailey

Elinor is known for her outrageous dress, lively performances and humor as well as her creative skills. Yet she claims her greatest motivation is touching the hearts of creative and loving women. Elinor has been a creative consultant for Crafts Magazines, PJS Publications. She has designed fabric for Concord Fabrics, Daisy Kingdom and P&B Fabrics. She has written books on dolls, children's stories and five books for Bernina of America. She founded APWPWD (Association of People Who Play with Dolls) and is a member of the United Federation of Doll Clubs and a friend of the National Institute of American Doll Artists. According to Elinor, dolls speak to people - particularly their makers - and that message is primarily to the inner person. elinor peace bailey received her art education through Parson's School of Design, Tyler School of Fine Arts, and Brigham Young University. She has written Mother Plays With Dolls, The Rag Doll From Plain to Fancy, and recently, Two Doll Makers Meet In The Middle, publish by Krause. elinor has self-published 65 doll patterns and 7 books which cover doll making from the simple to the complex. She has illustrated books for Bernina of America and Fairfield Process. She has acted as consultant for Crafts Magazine, Prym Dritz Corp. (who has manufactured her dolls), Fairfield Processing, and Springs Mills.
She has enjoyed great kindness from her friends and audiences wherever she has gone and there fore, she plans to continue.Elinor is an experience not to be missed.

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