If you still do not know how to sew a Tilda or a doll in Russian folk dress, soon you will be able not only to read about it, but also to bring your ideas to life. Dolls are integral companions of childhood. Of course, you can buy them in the store, but let there be toys made by the caring hands of the mother along with the toys purchased from the child. They will transfer the love of the parent to the child and will be made in a single copy. No one else will have another such toy.
How to sew a doll with your own hands?
Such a toy can be made not only for a daughter, but also for a competition. Any grandmother will be delighted if her granddaughter sews such a doll and presents it to her as a gift. To create it, little is needed, these are:
- plastic bottle with a capacity of 1.5 liters;
- synthetic winterizer;
- nylon tights;
- threads;
- needle;
- wire;
- nippers;
- scissors;
- for doll clothes - fabric.
First, cut the bottom of the bottle together with the bottom, as shown in the photo. Then wrap it with a padding polyester, and so that it does not slip, sew it on top of the bottle, tie it with a thread in its center. Pull tights on this structure, which are 2 times longer than the bottle itself. We tie them at the top with a ribbon.
He will tell and show you how to sew a doll with your own hands in a master class. Let's start shaping her face. To do this, we tear off a piece of padding polyester, put it under the tights at the top of the bottle. We sew the nose with a needle and thread, forming it as follows.
First we sew at the top, then we lower the needle down, form the right and left nostril.
To make the side wings of the nose, we pass the thread from above, first through its right wing, then up through the nostril, making 2-3 such stitches. Then we form another wing of the nose.
To make the threads almost invisible, take those that match the tights. In this example, light brown silk is used. The photo clearly demonstrates how to sew a doll with your own hands. The next ones show that you need to untie the upper ribbon and add a little padding polyester to the frontal part of the head, and for the cheeks too, but you can put it through the bottom. Form these parts of the face and continue working on the nose. It should look like this. Make your cheeks plump by helping yourself with your hands.
Now, through the bottom of the bottle, put a little padding polyester on the doll's chin, start shaping her lips.
And make the cheeks more realistic with a tightener.
It is not necessary to tighten the thread too much, otherwise it may break, thereby complicating the work. Due to tightening too much, facial features may become out of shape. Shape your chin, give your face a facial expression.
Eyes for toys are sold in craft stores, sew them into place, use a needle and thread to make eyebrows. Here's how to sew the dolls, but the work is not over yet.
To make your grandmother look her age, give your eyebrows a slightly frown. To do this, walk between them with a needle and thread.
Pass the rest of the tights at the top through the neck of the bottle and sew it here. Or screw on the plug and sew directly onto it.
Draw eyebrows with brown shadows, cheeks with blush, use them or lipstick to designate lips. Attach the wig.
To make your hair, wind the yarn around your helper's arms or the back of a chair. Then cut through the threads on one side, find the center and tie them here with the same yarn. For a bun, weave a braid from dense threads, wrap it in a spiral and sew or glue to the hair. Here's how to sew a doll further with your own hands. For this stage of work, you will also need a wire. Large segments need to be bent on two, and small ones on one side.
Cut a long strip of padding polyester 1 cm wide. Start wrapping it around one of the two large wires. Now attach a small wire to its other end. Wrap this wire too, then attach the next one and so on 4 pieces that will be fingers. Make your thumb a little later.
Now wrap another wire with padding polyester, this will be your thumb. Place it in place, wrap the palm of the toy with thread to highlight this part of the DIY doll.
You can tinker all fingers in the same way as a thumb. First, wrap them with padding polyester, and then attach toys to the palm of your hand and screw them with this material at the junction. Now cut off a wider strip of synthetic material and wrap it around the doll's arm.
Cut a rectangular piece out of the tights, place it on the doll's palm, wrap it around and use a needle to tighten your fingers.
Cut off the excess canvas and see what you get at this stage.
If the legs of the pantyhose are wide, make them narrower so that you get two tubes of this kind that you put on the legs of a handmade doll. Sew these tubes with the wrist of your hand, pulling well, and cut off the excess.
Reattach the handles.
If you know how to sew clothes for dolls, then make them and put them on the heroine of your needlework. Here's what you get.
If you do not know how to do this, describing this process with photographs will certainly help.
How to sew a sundress and a shirt?
It is from these two items that the national Russian women's costume consists. For the shirt, you will need a white cloth. Redraw the pattern. Sleeves can be cut out together with a shelf and back. Then you get the so-called undershirt.
It remains to sew the sleeves, the side parts of the front and rear, and process the neckline. Now you can start the sundress. For him, it is better to use a colored or plain fabric.
Here are some samples. You can sew a sundress with your own hands, relying on any of them.
The easiest way to make national clothes for a doll is:
- Cut out a rectangle, the length of which corresponds to the length of the product, and the width is 1.5–2 times greater than the volume of the doll.
- Stitch the 2 edges of the fabric together, this will be the back seam of the sundress. Bend the product inward 2 times at the top, stitch. Pass an elastic band into the resulting drawstring, tie it.
- Cut out the straps for the sundress from two rectangular fabrics, sew them and stitch them to the front and back of the sundress.
This is how beautiful it will turn out for you. It is possible to sew a sundress in a similar way on "One, two, three".
You can also dress the doll in more modern outfits.
But then you need to do it not on a bottle, but with legs. In this case, the patterns will help to sew the doll. They are given further.
We cut out a toy with our own hands
You will need to enlarge the image, attach a sheet of white paper or tracing paper to it and redraw it element by element. If you want to enlarge the model, then draw horizontal and vertical stripes on the resulting pattern, you will get squares. Number them. Draw the same, but larger size on a larger sheet of paper, Whatman paper or newspaper. Number the squares here too. Now transfer the drawing of each sector from the small to the large canvas.
How to sew a doll with your own hands, the pattern will tell you.
To create such an adorable baby doll, redraw and cut out a pattern consisting of:
- 2 torso parts;
- two parts of the face;
- 4 parts of the hands;
- 4 parts of the legs;
- 1 - the occipital part.
Don't forget to add seam allowances. First, grind the details of the face together, then sew the back of the head to them. Fill the resulting head with padding polyester, sew two parts of the body together, leaving the neck part free. Fill the body with padding polyester through it, sew it to the head.
Details for arms and legs are sewn in pairs, they are also stuffed with light synthetic filler and sewn into place. The second model is also not difficult to execute, because the pattern helps a lot to sew dolls with your own hands.
This pattern consists of only three parts: the first is the head along with a part of the body, the second is the leg, and the third is the arm. Cut out the first part in two copies, and the second and third in four.
You can sew such a doll from tights or from other well-stretched material.
With the help of a pattern and a detailed description, you can create a very fashionable doll now, which was invented in Norway.
Making Tilda with your own hands
This is the name of this doll, which was invented by Tony Fininger. See what a charming creature you end up with.
In order for Tilda to have the correct proportions, a pattern is needed. Transfer the presented base to paper, cut out, transfer the pattern to the fabric.
From a white or flesh-colored canvas, cut out the head along with a part of the body (above the dotted line) - 2 parts, 4 parts each for the legs and arms from the same fabric.
Notice the dotted lines on the body pattern. They will tell you how to sew clothes for your doll. To do this, attach the part between the dotted lines to the colored fabric, cut out. Be sure to notch the seam allowances where the parts are curved.
Stitch Tilda's arms and legs, 2 parts of the head and neck between each other. Sew the dress to the shoulder of the doll.
Turn out small details with a pencil, fill in the elements that will make up the Tilda doll with a padding polyester.
You can decorate the doll's dress with lace braid. Cut out a fluffy skirt from a rectangular canvas, sew it to the doll.
Cut out two blanks from the fabric for small fluffy lantern sleeves, gather them at the bottom with an elastic band.
To sew slippers for a doll, attach a piece of paper to its sole and outline it. For this pattern, cut 2 blanks from dense material for the soles of slippers.
Cut out two rectangular strips from the same felt fabric or from another, put them on the doll's legs, as shown in the photo, stitch at the bottom.
We make hair from threads, covering the head with them with straight stitches.
The eyes can be embroidered with yarn or 2 beads can be sewn on this place.
Weave a thick braid from the thread, attach it in place. Cut out a triangular scarf from the fabric, tie it.
If the toy will have wings, cut them out of white fabric according to the pattern (4 parts), stuff with syndepon and sew on the doll's back. And you have got such a pretty girl made of fabric, who can put a colorful bouquet in her hands and put her in the most conspicuous place.
Now you know how to sew a tilde so that such a charming man-made creature appears in your house, which will certainly bring happiness!
See how to sew Tilda and other dolls, the video will clearly show all the subtleties of the needlework process: