OFFRAY'S RIBBON ANGELS

MATERIALS

 Stiff poster board or heavy cover-stock paper

 Fusible web

 Flesh-color fabric

 Delta Ceramcoat paints

 Fine-tip paint brush

 Brown permanent ink fine-tip felt marking pen

 Wavy Locks doll hair

 Gold thread for hanging doll on tree

 Graphite paper

 Powder blush and cotton swab

RIBBONS (for each doll)  Four small satin ribbon roses  2/3 yd. (1 1/2" wide) Offray Ombre ribbon  3 yds. (1 1/2" wide) Offray Gold-Edge Taffeta ribbon  6 1/2" (3/8" wide) Offray Gold Grosgrain or Metallic ribbon

PRINT OR TRACE FOR THE PATTERN

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Follow manifacturer's directions to apply fusible web to back of flesh-color fabric. Fuse fabric to both sides of poster board. 2. Trace the silhouette of torso and head onto poster board. Use sharp scissors to cut out. Glue head onto torso. 3. Use the graphite paper to transfer facial features to doll's head. Paint face according to diagram. SUGGESTED PAINT COLORS Ceramcoat-Bambi Brown, White, Black, Alpine Green, Rosetta Pink, Misty Mauve

DRESSING THE DOLL

1. Cut 2/3 yard of wired Ombre ribbon (1 1/2" wide) and tie a knot in one end. Pull a wire from one edge of unknotted end, carefully gather ribbon as you pull. Tie knot here.
2. Center the gathered ribbon about 1/4" above the lower edge of doll's torso and glue ribbon in place. Fold the knotted ends to the back of doll and glue ribbon to back.
3. Cut 1/3 yard of Taffeta Gold-Edge ribbon and 1/3 yard of Majesty. Hold ribbons together, overlapping the edges slightly, fold over 1" loops at each end, wire together.
4. Place the looped ribbon across the doll's lower torso, at a slight angle, so the left loop is at the top of the gathers and the right loop is draped across the doll to the lower half of the right side of the gathered ribbon. Glue the wired section to the doll, and use your finger to make the wired ribbon wavy or slightly crimped. You may need to tuck the sheer ribbon slightly underneath the wired ribbon and use a dot of glue to hold it in place.
5. Glue three small satin ribbon roses to cover left loop's wire and one to cover right one.
6. Cut a 10-12" length of Wavy Locks and tie a piece of matching thread just off center for a side part and glue the hair to the doll's head. Cover back of doll's head with glue and pull some of the excess hair to cover the back. Arrange the hair and glue in place.
7. Make wings by assembling a triple bow with total width of about 5", using 2 3/4 yards of two kinds of 1 1/2" wide ribbon (Majesty and your choice of wired ribbon). When making the bow, use both ribbons together, then fluff them out a little them out a little when bow is finished. Cut one length of one of the ribbons to tie around the center of the bow to cover the wire in the center. Leaves ties about 4" long. Glue bow to back of the base of her neck.
8. Make a halo for angel by cutting a 6 1/2" length of 3/8" wide gold grosgrain or metallic ribbon. Overlap the ribbon at the angle in the illustration so the halo is tear-shaped at the back. Glue the bottom angle of the halo 1 1/2" below the top of the back of the doll's head.
9. To hang, thread gold thread through a needle and oke it through the top of the doll's head, about 1/8" from the top of the head, going through the cardboard.

METRIC RIBBON CONVERSION CHART

3/16" = 5mm		3/4" = 19mm
1/4" = 7mm		7/8" = 23mm
3/8" = 9mm		1 7/6" = 37mm
1/2" = 12mm		1 1/2" = 39mm
5/8" = 15mm		2 3/4" = 70mm

METRIC CONVERSION GUIDE
Yards x .9 = METERS
Inches x 2.5 = Centimeters

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