Online Classes & Workshops

Here is an index of all the online courses currently offered.

Online Courses

These on-demand courses are hosted in the Doll Making Academy, where I teach you through step-by-step videos with written annotations in English. You have a detailed list of ingredients, online suppliers to purchase materials, tips, tricks and more. You gain access to the class content for 1 year, which gives you plenty of time to work on finishing it, but also gives you a deadline, so you are motivated to complete your course.

Beginner Waldorf Doll Class

Price $235 USD

Learn traditional, but updated, Waldorf dollmaking techniques to create a beautiful and full of tenderness natural doll. Spend time diving into your creative spirit and creating from the depths of your imagination, with gentle instructions and step-by-step videos. Doll is 14” (35 cm) tall. She can be made as a suitable doll for a child 4+.

You can read more about the class here. Access to this class is granted for a year from enrolment.

Doll Dressmaking Course

Price $157 USD

Explore different sewing techniques to assemble doll clothing, play with different fabrics and designs, gain more confidence and experience in doll dressmaking, while you build a full wardrobe for a 14” tall doll: undergarments (underwear, under shirt, socks), ruffle boots, quilted jacket, pincushion dress, pinafore, bunny overalls, spring outfit (top and shorts), shirt and trousers with pockets, flannel pyjamas.

All the patterns provided in this course, fit the Beginner Waldorf Doll online class taught in the same Academy.

Plenty of time to go through all 9 lessons, access is for one full year from enrolment.

Making a Dollhouse Family Class

Price $217 USD

This self-paced class teaches you how to create a 5-member (Dad, Mom, Older Sibling, Little Sibling and Baby) dollhouse family. Work in your own time to make a family inspired by my little characters: The Woolykins.

You will learn how to make their wire armatures, sculpt them in wool, cover them in doll skin fabric, make their little wigs and all of their clothes. Patterns are provided for everything.

Access to this class is for a year, more than enough time to create your little dollhouse people. Materials are not included but kits are available from reputable online suppliers.

Needle Felting Classes

The following classes are taught via step-by-step videos in English, with all explanation on the video.

The classes include a glossary, FAQs, troubleshooting, a PDF that gives you guidance to the materials you need and patterns that you can use to finish a doll.

The classes teach you how to form and sculpt the doll face only, so you concentrate your energy in understanding needle felting, Waldorf inspired dollmaking techniques and soft fabric sculpture.

You can ask questions as you are working through the class and you have access to them for 1 year after enrolment.

Beginner Sculpting Class | Child Face

Price: $325 USD

This class that teaches you how to firmly sculpt a doll’s face using needle felting techniques, using the sweet proportions of a young child.

If you want to get started adding more depth to your doll faces, while learning techniques that aim for high quality, and you want to make dolls that resemble little children, then this class will be perfect for you.

Sign up, read more about the content, watch an introductory video and more here. Access to this class is granted for 1 year after enrolment.

Intermediate Sculpting Class | Baby Face

Price: $325 USD

This class teaches you how to create a doll’s head while sculpting the features to resemble a baby face with closed eyelids. If your heart mainly aches to make baby dolls then this class is for you.

If you have been sculpting already Waldorf-style dolls but you want to take your sculpting to a next level, then this class is for you as well.

You will learn how to properly sculpt the skin fabric over all the nooks and crannies of the face without using glue to keep the fabric tight.

The class does not provide a body pattern or covers embroidery of the doll’s eyes. It shows you how to sculpt the fabric around the eyes for the closed eyelids version.

You can sign up, read more about the class content and watch an introduction video here. Access to this class is granted for 1 year after enrolment.

Online Workshops

Stuffing Workshop

February 14th-15th and 21st-22nd
Price: $198USD (€170 to EU residents paid by bank transfer)
Registration open now: BOOK YOUR SPOT

This is a hands-on workshop where I will teach you the two most common ways to stuff dolls: pushing the wool (puff-stuffing) and rolling the wool. For rolling wool I recommend a wool wand or similar tool.

You will sew your pattern pieces at home, but if needed, I can send you a couple of simple templates for legs and arms you can practice with. I highly recommend you use your own pattern, so that you learn how to stuff your doll.

The workshop will take place over 2 days, two hours each, on a weekend. The dates are Feb 14th and 15th, or the 21st and 22nd. 

The workshop will be offered LIVE ONLINE with no replays. 

Depending on registration, because the students will be all over the place, I will offer different time zones so that you can attend. For example: 9 AM Lisbon for European/UK/Asia residents, 5 PM Lisbon for North America residents, 9 PM Lisbon for Australia/NZ residents, on both days.

Doll Head Articulation Workshop

Price $235 USD
Taught Live Online, 2-day workshop, No Recordings/Replays
COMING SOON: Summer 2026

This workshop takes about 2 to 3 hours each day. I teach you the technique I use to articulate my doll’s heads, without the need to felt them atop a wooden handle or dowel, or use a cotter pin. It is a technique I devised myself after years of experimentation, and I have successfully taught it to many dollmakers via this online workshop.

You will learn how to create the joint and how to deal with covering the head to a smooth fabric finish. There is homework to attend so I recommend this workshop for intermediate dollmakers who can take directions such as “needle felt a doll head”. I won’t give you step by step instructions in the homework file, but I do give you different options for the neck construction.

Making a Baby with Fig & Me

Price $385 USD | June 15th ~ 28th, 2026
Registration will open in April

Join me in creating a 14”/15” weighted baby doll. This summer you can learn to sculpt a sweet baby doll’s face, add weight (both to the head and torso) for a very comforting feel, and make the doll head and body with a lot of movement without needing plastic joints. You will also learn how to make fuzzy baby hair and the clothes pictured: a crossover top, comfy pants, a diaper and a knitted fox hat.

If you are curious to learn more, please visit this dedicated page to the baby class.

In-person Workshops 2026

I will offer one or two Spring workshops in Coimbra, Portugal and a few more in the Fall. Details to be determined. Sign up for my newsletter so you don’t miss when they are open for registration.

Membership channel

If taking an online class or attending one of my in-person workshops is not something you can venture at this moment in your making journey, wether in time commitment, travel arrangements or finances, please feel free to visit my Patreon channel, where I discuss a lot about the journey of a dollmaker, sharing tips and tricks, and where I publish dressmaking tutorials, news from my studio, host a monthly livestream to chat about dollmaking and more.

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