Textile doll-baby: pattern, description of the creation process

Handmade dolls are now very popular. Many talented handmade masters create such amazing textile dolls, which can be attributed to works of art. Such talents are trying to imitate, buy master classes and patterns. There were many varieties, styles and images of handmade textile dolls. The most popular among them are puppies, pumpkins, skinheads and baby dolls.

How to create a textile doll yourself

An exclusive handmade doll can be purchased from a talented master, or you can make yourself. Perhaps, complex options are not under the power of everyone, and primitive dolls-babies can easily master any. To do this, you will need a successful pattern of a doll-baby, a little cloth and time and a great desire to create something with your own hands. Well, let's talk about this in more detail.

In order to make a textile doll-baby with their own hands, novice craftsmen will need a detailed description of the process, advice on the use of certain materials, even some secrets and subtleties that can be shared by experienced handmade masters. Some puppeteers offer free master classes and patterns for dolls-babies, others sell detailed descriptions of the process.

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

Nevertheless, if it is decided to create your own unique toy by yourself, you can use one of the pattern patterns of the doll-baby. One of them is shown below. To do this, you need to transfer the pattern to the fabric and proceed to the creative process.

Required materials for sewing dolls

Before you start, you need to prepare everything you need. Well, if there is a sewing machine, it can facilitate and speed up the process, but quite successfully you can sew a doll-baby with your own hands with a needle and thread. For those who are just beginning to try themselves in the creation and creation of handmade toys, it is best to use the simplest pattern of a doll-baby. It is called primitive. A pattern will fit, where the head, body and legs are all-colored, only the handles are hanged separately.

For production you will need:

• The shape of a full-size doll.
• Fabric of any shade of flesh-colored for the baby's calf.
• Any fabric for sewing clothes.
• A special filler for toys (it can be sintepon, sintepuh or holofayber), as well as a wooden stick for stuffing details.
• To create a hairstyle, you may need to choose from: thick yarn, yarn for felting, tresses of artificial hair.
• Acrylic paints, blush and tassel to paint a face or a pair of black beads, if it is planned to create a pupa with a face like a tilde or a skinhead, only with eyes.

Patterns of a doll-baby

For sewing, you can use this pattern, and you can draw your own.

The process of creating a doll-baby with their own hands

Where to begin? To sew a doll-baby a full-size pattern should be redrawn on paper, cut and transferred to a fabric. Then you need to sew by hand or stitch the car parts without cutting them, and after that, carefully cut and make on the edge of the notch so that after turning the edges of the parts were smooth and not collected.

It is necessary to fill all the details with the filler and begin sewing clothes. What the baby will be dressed up for is worth thinking about right away and picking up the necessary pieces of cloth. Then the process depends on what kind of clothes will be: whether it will be with or without sleeves, whether it's panties, skirt or dress. Here are some tips:

• Sleeves and pants, after they are stitched on the machine, you need to put on the details of the handles and legs, and only then sew them to the body.
• The easiest way is to make a doll dress. The length of the fabric, equal to the length of the dress with the processed edges, can be gathered at one edge and sewed directly to the doll just below the neck, then attach the handles and tie a bow or sew a collar around the neck.
• Shoes can be painted with acrylic paints, or you can sew boots for patterning the legs with a small allowance or tie pinets that you can put on and take off.

Create a face baby

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

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

Both options will be interesting to look at. The first option is more difficult and requires effort. In order to draw a face, you must first draw a line in the eye with a pencil, mark a spout and sponges. Then paint the eyes:

• White paint fill the entire area of the eye;
• Draw an iris and a pupil;
• Circle the dark color (black or brown) outline;
• Draw cilia.

The spout can only be lightly marked, the sponge is drawn with the selected color. Blush can be applied with a real small brush or cotton swab.

The simplest face with pencil points can be made using black paint, drawing two identical points in place of the eyes, and you can sew small black beads. In this version, the baby can also be abused.

Create Hair

Hairstyle for a doll-baby with your own hands 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 in the middle to the head of the pupa. Such hair can be slightly trimmed and collected in two ponytails on the sides or braid braids.

For hair, yarn for felting can be used. A small piece should be sealed with a special needle in the middle to the head of the doll and make the desired hairstyle.

For the doll-baby you can use the tracks, just sewing them around the circle to the head. From above you can put on a hat or cap.

Now a unique, exclusive doll-baby is ready.