Register for a Zoom Workshop: Trellis with Planter Box

October 8, 2020October 7, 2020Leave a comment

DATES: Sunday, Nov. 8 & Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020.
LOCATION: Online via Zoom

Deb Laue from The Itty Bitties miniature club will provide instruction online for creating a 1:12 (1″ scale) trellis box with a climbing rose.

This is a 2-session class taking place via Zoom. On Sunday, Nov. 8th, participants will assemble the trellis box and the climbing rose bush. On Dec. 6th, the geraniums and all of the filler flowers will be completed.

All the artwork will be provided with step-by-step instructions on how to make the various flowers.

Cost: $65 plus $5 postage. The class price includes all the supplies needed to make the project, including 5 specialty paper punches and the laser cut planter box. The only tools participants need to supply are scissors, tweezers, and tacky or turbo tacky glue.

If you already have punches that you’d like to use, Deb will adjust the class fee by the cost of any punch you don’t need sent to you. The class uses the following punches: Small – Tri leaf, Hydra cluster and Cedar Sprig; Mini punches – the Daisy and Bell Flower or Cherry Blossom.

To sign up for the online workshop, email deb@dragonflyintl.com

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Debra Taylor: Miniature Weaving and Dolls

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Debra shared the following description of her projects:
“This is weaving fabric on a 4-shaft floor loom that I am using with miniatures. I am using a very fine white silk yarn (60/2) for the warp and commercial (30/2) and my handspun silk yarn for the weft. This is an overshot pattern called ‘Mirrored Minarets’ from A Handweaver’s Pattern Book by Marguerite Davison.”

Two dolls (Li’l Sis and Baby Sis) that Debra dressed during an Itty Bitties meeting, facilitated by Deb Laue.

Itty Bittie Club’s Doll Project

August 23, 2020Leave a comment

Some of the Itty Bitties Miniature Club members participated in an online Zoom workshop taught by Deb Laue through Zoom. Members dressed a little girl doll and her dolly and learned how to make shoes for the little girl doll.

Dolls dressed by Frances Bigler, including shoes and socks for the bigger doll. The class was taught by Deb Laue.

Kathy Burlingame: Kitchen in a Beach Cottage

August 20, 2020August 23, 2020Leave a comment

Kathy shared the following description of her project:
“I’ve been renovating a Lafayette house this past year and finally put the kitchen together. I put together the cabinets and created the “quartz” countertop in January/February. In the past few months finished the wiring and the rest of the room. I called it the Beach Cottage.”

Kathy is a member of the Itty Bittie’s Club.

Itty Bitties Club’s Printed Fabrics Project

August 10, 2020August 23, 2020Leave a comment

An Itty Bitties Club project facilitated by Debra Taylor, DVM

Some of the Itty Bitties Miniature Club members participated in an online Zoom workshop taught by Dr. Debra Taylor. Members learned how to prepare cotton or silk fabric and to use freezer paper to print an image on the fabrics.

Some tips: 1) If you want your printed fabric to be washable, the fixative must be applied before the freezer paper and printing process. 2) If you use Pellon’s Wonder Under or Heat n Bond, remember that these products leave adhesive permanently adhered to your fabric. The freezer paper leaves no residue.

Seeking Workshop Instructors & Students

December 12, 2019December 10, 2019Leave a comment

The Itty Bitty Miniature Club has started a new workshop program in the Sacramento, CA area. The club is sponsoring full and half day workshops. The goal is to offer 6 – 8 workshops a year.

If you are either a traveling teacher or a local area teacher, and would like to teach a workshop, please contact Deb Laue, deb@dragonflyintl.com.

If you are interested in being put on the mailing list for future workshops, please email Deb Laue, deb@dragonflyintl.com.

The next workshop will occur Jan. 25, 2020. Deb will teach “Intro to Hatmaking.” More info.