About Our Club:
The Flights of Fantasy Doll Club is a cloth doll club. The ability level of our members range from beginning doll makers to advanced doll makers and designers. Our purpose is to further the enjoyment and appreciation of cloth dolls as well as enhance our skills in making them. We publish a monthly electronic newsletter. Our dues are $20 for members and $10 for associates.
We draw our regular members from the greater Charlotte and surrounding areas of Concord, Kings Mtn., Stanley, Gastonia, Matthews, Rock Hill (SC), Pineville, Troutman, Shelby, Cherryville, Statesville, Rutherfordton, and FL. Although some of our associate members live too far away to attend regularly (we have associate members from GA, and KY), local associate members are invited to attend our doll classes, visit our meetings up to three a year, display their dolls with ours in exhibits and attend our Christmas Party. We have 25 plus members and associates.
Each year we invite a nationally known doll artist/teacher to conduct a two-day doll class for us. In past years we have hosted Gabe Cyr, Patti Culea, Barbara Willis (twice), Christine Shively, Arley Berryhill, Barbara Schoenoff and Marcella Welch.
We are very fortunate to have many very talented members who share their knowledge of doll making with us at every meeting. Some past demonstrations include armatures, hand making, face painting, doll jewelry, felting, using different hair materials, etc. Guest speakers are also invited during the year.
Every year we choose one or two service projects. Our previous projects have included donating dolls and stuffed animals and toiletry items for the Women's Shelters in Charlotte, Gastonia, and Shelby; warm clothing and toiletry items to clients at a local mental health out-patient center; and a monetary donation to a youth mental health project to buy bus tokens for their clients.
Our Meetings:
We now meet at the Holy Covenant United Church of Christ, 3501 West WT Harris Blvd.,
Charlotte, NC 28269 at 6:30 PM on the second Wednesday of each month.
Upcoming/Recent Events:
Members’ dolls were exhibited at the Gastonia Library June-August, 2011.
‘Doll-in-flight' dolls and 'fashionista' dolls created by our members are currently displayed at the Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, NC.
Demonstrations at our meetings:
1. Hairpin lace hair by Lucy Baumgart and Cindi Teague/September
2. Parasol creation by Billie O’Klatner/October
3. Ribbon flower embellishments by Sachiko Day/November click here for pictures
4. Mary Rutherford brought in her spinning wheel to demonstrate carding and spinning techniques. She presented samples of the
different raw fibers which can be spun, as well as samples of those spun fibers used in projects/January
5. Panze Roberts distributed information on doll making resources and she displayed a variety of books, magazines,
fibers, cloth and technique samples/February
6. Gracie Coleman presented a program on building doll armatures and stands and items to use as anatomical references/March 14
7. Members created miniature baskets under the direction of Sachiko Day/April 2012
8. Earth, Wind and Fire dolls by Judy Klem (TBD)
Mini class, Saturday, October 15. Members (Gracie Coleman, Olivia Davis, Barbara Johnson,
Blanche Jones, Judy Klem, and Billie O'Klatner) attended an informative and fun class in Face
painting with acrylics and Beading 101 taught by Lucy Baumgart and Cyndi Teague.
Members Cindi Teague and Lucy Baumgart (sisters) displayed their dolls, pocketbooks and scarves in their “Sassy Senile Sisters” booth at the “Christmas Made in the South” show October 19-21 held at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center.
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For our 2011 community outreach project, (Judy Klem, Panze Roberts, Gracie Coleman, Olivia Davis, Blanche Jones and Barbara Johnson) met on November 12 to assemble toiletry items (soap, deodorant, lotion, etc donated by members) and to create lovely gift bags for distribution
at the YWCA of Central Carolinas Women in Transition.
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Our holiday party was held on December 14th. Members enjoyed great food and music--and a fun Christmas bingo game with prizes provided by Billie O’Klatner.
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Judy Klem offered a homework workshop at the church on February 18 to help members prepare for Barbara Schoenoff’s seminar.
Miniature baskets by Annilee Taylor were offered on Saturday, April 14 from 10am to 4pm at the church.
Beautiful dolls created by our members and exhibited in the annual Charlotte, NC Quilt Show, March 9-10, 2012
generated much interest in our club and in doll making.
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On March 24/25, 2012, twenty members (including three guests) attended an informative and fun seminar taught by Barbara Schoenoff. Even our experienced
doll makers learned some new and exciting doll making methods creating Barbara’s “Boudica” warrior doll (e.g. techniques with the new Wonderflex product,
a moldable plastic used to make masks).
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Flights of Fantasy Events:
See some of the wonderful cloth dolls made by members of our club.
(click on the links below to view
the dolls)
Free Doll Pins:
Original doll designs by Nancy Laverick
with pin adaptations
by Geraldine Nehl.
Click on thumbnails below for pattern,
directions and finished samples.
Mini-Maude
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Mini-Alfie
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