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This book on making cattails dolls is the number one book of its kind on Amazon. Thank you!!! I'm so grateful people like the books in my Wilderness Survival Skills Series.
Best-selling Amazon author John Yost brings you "How to Make Cattail Dolls." This book has illustrations that guide you through making your first doll from beginning to end. The detailed instructions make creating your own cattail figurine easy and fun. If you like making handcrafts as a hobby, you're a woodsman, you out camping, or you simply enjoy crafting projects, this is an essential book for your library.
The step by step illustrations are carefully drawn to show you exactly how to make dolls with cattails.
And... you can use these same techniques with corn husks, palm leaves, and iris leaves as well. This means that you can make this style of doll in spring, summer, fall.
It's easy to follow along with the book, and after making your first couple of dolls, you'll have the hang of it. It will feel like you've been making these cattail dolls for years.
Like all good nature crafts books, you'll find ideas and illustrations for personalizing your doll. This makes them the perfect gifts for friends and family.
It includes illustrations of each step and text describing how to use the different kinds of leaves on a cattail plant and build them up into a wonderful handcrafted decorative item.
You'll discover how to tie special knots and make the arms by spinning the cattails like a rope.
And, techniques to make your dolls one-of-a-kind, which means they will make wonderful gifts that people LOVE to get!
You will also discover how to prepare and store materials for making cattail dolls. Every facet of gathering and storing materials is covered so you can make dolls at any time of the year.
Nothing is left out of this comprehensive manual to making cattail dolls. With just a little training, you will have sufficient skills to make the basic cattail figurine in 30 minutes or less.
The book is written in the hope that your friends and family to join you in the fun of making dolls. My hope is that you can learn and share together on outdoor adventures. Sharing not only the dolls you make, but the bonding experience of doing it together.
Please grab your copy... Discover the joy of learning how to make a cattail doll with family and friends!
"How to Make Cattail Dolls" includes:
* Illustrated step-by-step instructions for making cattail dolls
* Uses for different leaves on the cattail plant
* Finding and collecting the best cattail plants in a field of them
* How to harvest cattail leaves
* Storing cattail leaves if you plan to make dolls later
* Processing cattails so you can make dolls anytime of the year
* How to twist fibers into string (this is how you make your doll's arms)
* Ideas and Illustrations for personalizing your dolls with stick brooms, bows, arrows, rakes and other tools so your dolls make the perfect gift!
I really enjoyed writing this book for you and I hope you make beautiful dolls that you and the people you give them to love.
I am writing more books in this series about primitive bushcraft and sustainable off-grid living. I hope you, my reader, continue to enjoy these books. Please contact me with any questions or topic suggestions. Thank you!
About the Author: As a child, John grew up running wild in the fields and lakes in Wisconsin where he discovered mystery after mystery. His summers were spent exploring nature and the library. He would pore over the books in the 599 section (remember the Dewy Decimal System?) searching for answers to the questions he had about the things he'd seen out in the woods. John's love for animals continued and expanded in college where he got a degree in animal science and Teaching Certification. For the next 8 years he taught high school biology and was one of the kid's favorite teachers. During that time, he lived in a tiny log cabin he built himself in the middle of the woods. He had no running water, no electricity and no TV. Every day he would journal about his life and the animals around his cabin. Most of his days were spent making baskets, dolls, figurines, and other nature crafts. Now, John has an outdoor skills school in Wisconsin. Through his school and his books, John gets to pass on a life-time of love, learning and teaching to people all over the world through his books. He truly hopes you are inspired to appreciate this beautiful world we live in.
