Textile doll: DIY workshop, patterns and photos

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:45

A doll made by mom's hands - what could be the best gift for a little girl? And even if you have never sewed such toys on your own before, this does not mean that you will not succeed. Desire and diligence are the main components of the success of this business. And the information presented in this article will be an assistant in your work. It offers master classes on making such a toy as a textile doll. After studying them, you will understand that making such a gift for your daughter with your own hands is not at all difficult. From the most accessible materials, we learn to create cutie dolls.

Soft baby doll. Preparatory stage for making toys

The version of the doll presented in the master class is very easy to manufacture. We are preparing the following materials for work:

• cotton fabric in a light shade (for the body);
• any colored fabric (for clothes);
• yarn for knitting;
• synthetic winterizer or other filler (cotton wool, holofiber, small scraps of thread or fabric);
• sewing accessories;
• tape;
• scissors;
• chalk;
• pattern.

The stage of making parts of a soft baby doll

How to start making such crafts as textile dolls? Patterns - it is with them that we begin the creative process. An example of the simplest pattern for sewing soft baby dolls is presented to your attention in the photo. But you can use any other pattern, redrawn from somewhere or created by you yourself. Initially, the pattern is made on paper. Then cut it out and transfer it to the fabric. Fasten the patterns to the textile with pins, circle it around the contour with a pencil or chalk. Cut out the patterns, stepping back from the lines about 1 centimeter to the side. A textile doll according to this description is sewn from the following number of parts:

• head - 2 pieces;
• body - 2 pcs;
• pen - 4 pcs

Sewing a soft toy baby doll with your own hands

You can connect the details of the craft on a sewing machine with a regular stitch or manually with small stitches. You need to lay them along the lines marked with a pencil or chalk when transferring the pattern. First make out the two halves of the pupa's head. Leave a small hole at the top of the workpiece (where the hair is supposed to be). Next, connect the parts of the body together. In this blank, leave a hole on one sideside, where the arm will be attached. Through these holes, the textile doll will be filled with padding polyester. Sew the handles completely, and then make holes in the upper part of these parts.

Sew a baby doll from fabric: collection of details

We continue to create textile dolls with our own hands. The next step in the work is filling the doll with soft material. Through the holes left in the details, stuff the synthetic winterizer (or other filler of your choice) in small pieces. Make sure that it fills the entire internal space of the pupa evenly. If the arms and legs of the baby doll are narrow, then you can stick the filler in with a pencil or scissors. In order for the toy to keep its shape well, do not spare the synthetic winterizer, apply it tightly. Stuff the neck area especially tightly, otherwise the doll's head will dangle from side to side. Next, sew up all the holes. Attach handles to the body.

Decoration of head details

Homemade textile dolls (the photo confirms this), as a rule, have painted facial features. On the fabric, they can be decorated with acrylic paints for decorative work or special waterproof markers. You can also embroider a face with floss threads, use buttons or beads to simulate eyes. When this part of the head is framed, proceed to the manufacture of hair. Cut the yarn into pieces of about 10 centimeters. This will make a wig with medium length hair. If you want to make a doll with a scythe, then the pieces of thread should be larger. Fold the yarn into a bun, tie it in the middlethe same thread. On the head of the baby doll, mark the top center point. In this place, attach the wig by sewing it on or gluing it with fabric glue. You can make several of these bundles, placing them on the occipital area of the baby doll head, then the hair will be thicker. Next, sew the head to the body.

Textile doll: master class. Tailoring step

How to dress up a soft baby doll? If this is a female toy, then the easiest way is to sew a dress for her. To do this, take a rectangular piece of fabric and fold it four times. Cut off the corner formed as a result of this action. Expand the workpiece. Before you is a rectangle with a hole in the center. The head of the doll should pass through this hole, if not, trim it again. Now overcast this cutout. On the sides, sew connecting seams on both sides of the product, leaving holes for the hands. Trim the bottom edge. From the tape, make a belt. The dress is ready. Put it on a toy, tie it with a belt. The textile doll (girl) is ready.

If the baby doll is male, then, according to the principle of making a dress, sew a shirt for him, taking a rectangular patch of shorter length. From another such piece of fabric, make trousers for him. Fold the flap in half and sew the connecting seam. Next, cut the workpiece in the middle, forming the legs. Sew these pieces together. Fold in the top edge of the item. Sew it so that you can stretch the elastic inside. Overcast the bottom edge of the trousers. Put clothes on baby doll.

The most elementary ways are described heretailoring clothes for soft dolls. They can be decorated with embroidery, beads, braid, beads and other decorative elements. Also, clothes can be knitted or crocheted.

Fabric doll from improvised means - fast, easy, affordable

This toy model can be made with children. The work is easy and very interesting. You will need an empty plastic bottle (0.5L), socks, filler, sewing supplies, hair tie, two beads.

Insert an empty bottle into the sock. Stretch the fabric so that the heel is over the neck of the container. Pull the sock with an elastic band, fixing it on the neck. Next, put the filler in it (namely in the heel), forming a head. Stuff it tightly so that the workpiece keeps its shape. You can use a small ball to make the head. Secure the sock again with an elastic band already on top of the heel. You have a body and a head. Cut off the cuff of the sock and sew on one side. Turn the part inside out and put it on the toy, forming a hat. Sew on the bead eyes, embroider the mouth and nose. The textile primitive doll is ready.

Hinged dolls are wonderful toys

A real piece of jewelry can be called such a craft as a textile articulated doll. It will take a lot of time, patience, diligence and certain skills to make seams and fasteners to complete it. But the advantage of just such models of dolls is that their heads, torso turn, arms and legs bend. Such a doll can be planted,put, bend forward or backward. Parts are hinged in several ways. The simplest of them is the button method of connecting elements, the so-called "constriction". You can see a doll decorated in this way in the photo. More difficult is the method of fastening blanks with beads or soft balls. But its advantage over the button connection of elements is that the parts can not only bend, but also rotate around their axis.

Besides the fact that there is a special fastening of parts in articulated dolls, a frame is inserted inside them. It is made from wire. It is twisted, giving the shape of the necessary elements: arms, legs, or the entire skeleton at once. A frame is inserted into the sewn textile blanks, a filler is stuffed around it. And after that, the hinged connection of the parts is performed. The work is quite troublesome, but the result is worth it. Experienced craftsmen have already learned how to create such textile "joints" that are very believable, that is, their body parts are close to natural human forms.

Whatever toy you sew, it will be called "textile author's doll", because you created it with your own hands. And no matter what master class you use, the craft will still turn out to be exclusive, unique and only yours. Create with pleasure!