Textile baby doll: pattern, description of the creation process

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Handmade dolls enjoy unprecedented popularity today. Many talented handmade craftsmen create such amazing textile dolls that can be classified as works of art. They try to imitate such talents, buy master classes and patterns. Many varieties, styles and images of handmade textile dolls have appeared. The most popular among them are pumpkin head dolls, big footed dolls and baby dolls.

How to create a textile doll yourself

An exclusive handmade doll can be purchased from a talented craftsman, or you can make it yourself. Maybe not everyone can do complex options, but anyone can master primitive baby dolls. This will require a successful pattern of a baby doll, a little fabric and time, and a great desire to create something with your own hands. Well, let's talk about it in more detail.

In order to make a textile baby doll with their own hands, novice craftswomen will need a detailed description of the process, tips on the use of certain materials, even some secrets and subtleties that experienced ones can sharehandmade masters. Some dollmakers offer free tutorials and baby doll patterns, others sell detailed process instructions.

Today, not only the toys themselves are on sale, but also sets for sewing baby dolls with the necessary materials, descriptions and patterns.

However, if you decide to create your own unique toy, you can use one of the template patterns for baby dolls. One of them is shown below. To do this, you need to transfer the pattern to the fabric and begin the creative process.

Necessary materials for sewing a doll

Before starting work, you need to prepare everything you need. Well, if you have a sewing machine, it can facilitate and speed up the process, but you can quite successfully sew a baby doll with your own hands using a needle and thread. For those who are just starting to try their hand at creativity and creating handmade toys, it is best to use the simplest pattern of a baby doll. It's called primitive. A pattern is suitable, where the head, body and legs are one-piece, only the handles are cut separately.

To make you will need:

• Life size baby doll pattern.
• Fabric in any shade of flesh color for baby's body.
• Any fabric for sewing clothes.
• Special filler for toys (it can be synthetic winterizer, synthetic winterizer or holofiber), as well as a wooden stick for stuffing parts.
• To create a hairstyle, you may need to choose from: thick yarn, felting yarn, artificial hair tresses.
• Acrylicpaints, blush and a brush to paint the face or a pair of black beads if you plan to create a doll with a face like a tilde or bigfoot, only with eyes.

Baby Doll Patterns

For sewing, you can use a similar pattern, or you can draw your own.

The process of creating a baby doll with your own hands

Where to start? To sew a baby doll, a full-size pattern must be redrawn on paper, cut out and transferred to fabric. Then you need to sew by hand or stitch the parts on the machine without cutting them out, and then carefully cut and make along the edge of the notch so that after turning the edges of the parts are even and not assembled.

It is necessary to stuff all the details tightly with filler and start sewing clothes. What the baby will be dressed up in should be thought out right away and pick up the necessary scraps of fabric. Further, the process depends on what kind of clothing will be: whether it will be with or without sleeves, whether it will be panties, a skirt or a dress. Here are some tips:

• Sleeves and legs, after they are stitched on a typewriter, you need to put on the details of the arms and legs, and only then sew them to the body.
• The easiest way to make a doll dress. A piece of fabric equal to the length of the dress with finished edges can be gathered along one edge and sewn directly to the doll just below the neck, then attach handles and tie a bow or collar around the neck.
• Shoes can be painted with acrylic paints, andyou can sew boots according to the pattern of legs with a small allowance or tie booties that can be put on and taken off.

Creating a baby face

After the body of the pupa is ready, you can start creating the face. Here are the options:

1. You can paint a face with acrylics.
2. You can make a primitive face with beads in the form of an eye.

Both options will look interesting. The first option is more difficult and requires effort. In order to draw a face, you must first draw the lines of the eyes with a pencil, outline the nose and lips. Then paint the eyes:

• fill the entire area of the eye with white paint;
• draw the iris and pupil;
• draw a dark color (black or brown) outline;
• drawing eyelashes.

The nose can only be slightly marked, the sponges can be drawn with the selected color. You can apply real blush with a small brush or cotton swab.

The simplest face with dotted eyes can be made using black paint, drawing two identical dots in place of the eyes, or you can sew on small black beads. In this version, the baby can also be blushed.

Making hair

Do-it-yourself hairstyle for a baby doll can be made from thick knitting threads of any color. It is necessary to wind a small amount of thread on a cardboard of any width (depending on the desired length of hair), sew it in the middle to the head of the pupa. Such hair can be cut slightly and collected in twoponytail on the sides or braid.

For hair, you can use felting yarn. A small piece needs to be attached with a special needle in the middle to the doll's head and make the desired hairstyle.

For a baby doll, you can also use tresses, just sew them in a circle to the head. You can wear a hat or cap on top.

Now the unique, exclusive baby doll is ready.