My name is Maurine Adrezin.  I live in Las Vegas, Nevada with my husband, Allen.  We have three married children and six grandchildren.
    Since I was very young, I have enjoyed the fiberarts:  weaving, macramé, sewing, embroidery, crewel, machine knitting and quilting.
    I made my first cloth doll and mohair teddy bear while living in Melbourne, Australia.  When I returned to America I continued making cloth dolls and teddy bears.  I took numerous on-line classes and attended workshops to learn different techniques and have won many blue ribbons for my dolls.  I also developed a love of both needle and wet felting.  I now design my own dolls and weave the fabric for their clothes.
    I have been awarded the honor of being selected as a Juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and am also a member of the American Academy of Doll Artists.  I belong to the “Las Vegas Silver Doll-ers” Doll Club and “Fanciful Fibers”, a doll club in Sun City Summerlin, Las Vegas,  Nevada, "Southern Nevada Weavers and Spinners Guild" and  have  been  published in “Soft  Dolls & Animals”, "500 Handmade Dolls", “Art Doll Quarterly” and several newpapers.
    I have been designing my own patterns and have been teaching cloth dollmaking.  Most of these classes incorporate simple weaving techniques.  On the following pages are some of the dolls and bears that I have made, the fabrics that I have woven, and the projects that I've done with my grandchildren.

    I hope you enjoy looking at them.

June 2008
e-mail: madrezin@hotmail.com
To My Home Page
to see my Teddy Bears.
Click on the small bear
Click here to see dolls
  made with handwoven clothing.
My Grandchildren's Crafts
To View My Teddy Bears
To View Dolls Made From Patterns Or In Classes
To View Dolls Made From Fabric I've Woven
To View Crafts Made By My Grandchildren
Click here to to see dolls made by felting.
To View Dolls made from Felting Classes
Click on the schoolhouse to see some classes I teach
View dolls from classes that I teach
Credit Page - see things from other people used to create this site
Click here to                          see the schedule of my upcoming classes
Click here to see places where I have been published.
Credit Page - see things from other people used to create this site
Click here to                    learn about my students
Challenges
Click here to see some of my students
Click here to                          see links to my children.
Click here to see                          some of my looms.
Click here              to see dolls I made from patterns or classes.
Click here             to see my challenges
Click here to                           see crafts made by my grandchildren.
Click here to see                           my favorite links.