Do-it-yourself rag dolls are sewn from felt, fabric, and other materials. An interesting process of creating a doll from foamiran, as well as hairstyles and clothes for them. In our time, handicraft is very much appreciated. Learn to sew dolls, so as not to spend money on gifts, but to present such creations to your friends, their daughters on various holidays. You can make these toys, sell them, starting a small but profitable business.
Master class: rag doll
He will help you fall in love with this type of needlework, understand all its subtleties and nuances.
Children like these dolls very much, as they are not only beautiful, but also soft and cozy. Parents will be able to wash these toys, babies will not break them like porcelain or plastic ones.
To make the first doll, you can use the remains of various materials, these are:
- plain beige fabric for face and body;
- yarn;
- white cambric;
- floss;
- filler like holofiber or synthetic winterizer;
- length of dress fabric.
The presented pattern of a rag doll is printed, the elements are cut out. It:
- two parts of the head - facial and occipital;
- two body parts;
- two blanks for pantaloons (with folds);
- 4 parts each for arms and legs.
To save fabric and time, fold it in half to cut two identical pieces at once. The pattern of the arms and legs is first laid as it is, then flipped to the reverse side to get the details in the mirror image.
- To make the head the desired shape, stitch the folds that are indicated on the cheekbones. Fold over the face and back of the head, sew along the edge.
- Align two paired parts of the hands, sew them, stepping back from the edge. Leave the shoulder section unsewn. Decorate both legs in the same way, the top is not sewn up here.
- Through these holes you will stuff your arms and legs with filler, and through the neck - your head. Now you need to close these holes by stitching them on your hands.
- Place these parts as the doll will look in finished form, on top of them put the front part of the body, behind the back, placing filler between these two elements. Sew body parts on the arms.
- Cut out the pantaloons from the white fabric, sew the seams, sew the braid to the bottom. Slightly above it, from the wrong side, sew a wide elastic band with a zigzag seam, stretching it.
- At the next stage, rag dolls are further transformed, with your own hands you need to embroider facial features using threads of the appropriate colors. Make hair out of yarn. To do this, wind strands of the same size, sew them to the back of the head.
- Feel like real hairdressers, armed with scissors, trim the ends of the threads, you can make a bang for the doll, braid a pigtail.
The rag doll is ready, it remains to come up with a dress. If you know how to knit, use thread to make clothes.
If you have not yet mastered this needlework, then do it differently.
We sew clothes with our own hands
It's easier to create for dolls than for humans. It will take much less material and time.
Moreover, to make clothes, you can use unnecessary things, for example, such as old socks. From them you can very quickly sew doll pants.
To do this, we cut off the leaky heels, the tops will go into action.
Nest one inside the other, sew round cuts from the inside out.
Wonderful knitted trousers for the doll turned out.
Also create a turtleneck for her using an old sock, if you have a couple of these items, then you will make a tracksuit. See how to cut your socks. As you can see, you only need a bootleg.
To make trousers, cut the workpiece in the center, not reaching the elastic. Sew the resulting pant legs. For the turtleneck, cut the armholes on both sides, and the tracksuit is ready.
Sewn clothes for dolls are also an evening dress. You will also make it from a sock, the main thing is that it fits in width. Cut off the heel and toe, leaving only the bootleg. If you want to sew a topic, then use for it the cut off part between the heel and toe.
If you want to sew a costume for a doll, then mark the waistline on the bootleg, cut it here.
You will have a top and a long skirt. Decorate them as you wish by gluing or sewing on braid, rhinestones, and other accessories.
See how we quickly sew clothes for dolls. In just 15 minutes, the toy acquired a fashionable dress or a long skirt and a top.
If you have a little more time, then you can make a pattern for the doll to sew an evening dress.
Place the doll on the newspaper, circle its silhouette, adding a little to the loose fit. Draw long straps at the top so that you can tie the dress around the neck.
Try on the pattern for the doll, if necessary, make adjustments. Fold the paper template in half and line it up. Remove excess with scissors.
Fold the resulting paper template in half lengthwise, also arrange the fabric, put the pattern on it, pin it with pins. Cut out 7 mm from the edge of the template for seams.
Roll up the bottom of the dress, hem it using an overseam.
Stitch the sidewalls, tie the straps around the neck, decorate the dress with beads.
This is how beautiful the outfit for the doll turned out.
If a child wants to make clothes for a toy, then show him how to make an outfit out of paper. This will require:
- tape measure;
- wrapping or crepe paper;
- glue;
- pencil;
- scissors.
Measure the doll's height and body width.
Based on this information, help your child cut the front and back for the dress.
Tell your daughter that you need to cut out the details of the paper dress with seam allowances so that you can glue them together in these places.
Let the child do this, and also glue various decorations on the dress. Then he will try on a new thing for a doll.
Foamiran dolls: master class
Such toys are truly unique, as they are made in a single copy. They can be made and collected, donated, sold.
A master class will help you make dolls from foamiran. Prepare:
- foamiran of different colors;
- felt;
- glue;
- scissors;
- iron;
- wooden stick;
- powder;
- paints;
- foam blanks;
- paints;
- marker.
Foamiran (fom) is a material similar to porous colored rubber. Its thickness ranges from 0.5 mm to 0.5 cm.
First, let's make the doll's head. To do this, take a foam ball, iron the beige fom with a slightly heated iron, wrap the ball with it. Cut off the excess, and glue the edges with a hot gun.
Cut a circle out of the yellow shape, walk over it with the included iron, glue this blank of hair on the doll's head with hot glue.
To make the doll's hairstyle further, cut out a rectangle from the same foamiran, for the curls that will be located on the right side of the head. Cut them into thin strips, but not completely. While heating alternately, wind each one on a wooden skewer.
Glue the curls by their upper integral part to the right side of the doll's head, in the same way arrange the left half of the head. Use a ballpoint pen to draw the facial features.
Take a double semicircular foam blank, attach the foamiran of the desired color to it. The hands of the doll must be cut out of the thick Thomas. Sew a dress out of felt, decorate it with ribbons, beads.
We make legs that will bend. Cut two pieces of wire to the desired length, wrap each with flesh-colored foamiran. If you want to make big shoes for the doll so that they look good, the toy is stable, then take two Styrofoam balls, one slightly smaller than the other. Cut on one side to create planes. You also need to cut a little where you will glue these two blanks so that they are next to each other.
In the same way, they are decorated with foamiran, heating it, cutting off the excess and gluing the edges to the shoes.
These foamiran dolls can be made with your own hands, you can give them to the newlyweds. This will be an exclusive keepsake.
DIY felt dolls
It is also a fertile material for handicrafts. It has the necessary density, volume, does not wrinkle. The easiest way is to sew a flat doll. It does not need to be filled with filler.
As you can see, only the head is made of felt of such toys, and the face is made of flesh-colored material, and the hair can be black, brown, yellow, red. Make clothes from the same material or from another material that is at hand. Turn two chains on beads into legs. Embroider the facial features, draw them, or use matching pieces of felt.
Volumetric dolls are also easy to perform. Start with the next sample.
Cut out two parts of the head from flesh-colored felt, the same amount for the torso, arms and legs. As you can see, the legs and arms are double here.
Sew together paired parts of the torso and head, leaving a gap for stuffing them with padding polyester. Stitch the side seams of the arms and legs, also fill them with filler, and sew the limbs and head to the body.
To make a girl doll made of felt, you will need a hair pattern on which they are long or braided in the form of braids. These are the top two options. Sew the hair onto the head of the toy.
For the dress, you will need 2 parts that are connected with a seam on the sides and on the shoulders. If it is a boy doll, then the appropriate hairstyle and clothing will help.
Having mastered this simple needlework, you can create more realistic and voluminous felt dolls with your own hands.
To sew one, take:
- felt of suitable colors;
- filler;
- pins;
- scissors;
- gypsum;
- acrylic paints;
- plastic mounts;
- thread and a needle.
The head consists of 4 parts, two for the face and two for the back of the head.
Sew them, stuff your head with filler, wrap a little padding polyester on the tip of the needle, fill your nose with it. With the help of a disappearing marker, facial features are drawn.
Now go over them with plaster, at the same time primed.
Put the head blank on the bottle, paint the facial features with matching acrylic paints. Sew your ears here.
Sew paired parts on a typewriter, glue plastic fasteners that will help you connect your legs and arms to the body, but first fill these parts with filler.
Sew along the bottom of the limb to make the fingers and toes for this felt doll. Also from this material, but already of a different color, cut out the hair for the doll, sew or glue it on the head.
The clothing pattern below will help you create these wardrobe items for our character.
What and how to make a hairstyle for a rag doll?
This is also an important issue in the covered topic. After all, hair for dolls can be of different materials. You will choose the one that you have in stock.
For the just presented doll, hair was made from felt by hand from the same material. If you have goat weft or goat hair left from needlework, very interesting hairstyles are obtained from them.
If pieces of polar fox fur are lying around on the farm, place them on the angels' heads, gluing or sewing them behind the skin. It turns out a lush, as if weightless hairstyle.
If there is no fur, but there are satin ribbons, dissolve them. Then the doll made of felt or other material will acquire soft, silky hair. They can be trimmed at your discretion, using ribbons of the most unexpected colors.
Felting wool can also help create a hairstyle. Moreover, you may have a little of such material from needlework. The felting wool is pliable, so you can braid the doll in pigtails or make curls.
If you want to make a little princess, style your hair with wool so that it looks like a king.
When you're doing a workshop, a rag doll can get fabric hair, especially if you need to give the characters a rustic look.
Natural mohair hair is suitable for a textile doll to which you want to add mystery.
But the hair made of yarn is perfect for child dolls.
Their mistresses will be able to weave braids for their wards, do other hairstyles.
If you have boucle yarn with large loops, then the doll will acquire beautiful curls.
If you need to create a messy hairstyle for her, so that her hair is disheveled, then use the yarn "weed".
By choosing yarn curled in smaller zigzags, you can make different hair for your dolls.
If the threads are thick, you get a lush head of hair for your favorite toy.
If you have artificial hair, for example, there are strands left after extending them, make a small wig for your pet.
If desired, even small feathers and pieces of fluff will turn into a wonderful lush hair, and the rain left over from the New Year and even linen tow will turn into an interesting hairstyle.
Finishing the topic about textile dolls, you can talk about another toy that is very easy to create. For her, you can use a hairstyle from yarn or from other materials presented above.
DIY fabric toy
A pattern of this type of rag doll will greatly facilitate the task of creating it.
The next photo shows how to pin the arms and legs in order to sew them, and then straighten them.
So make the front, then the back. Fold the two blanks right-side up, sew them along the edge, leaving free space to fill the doll.
Take a flap of a suitable size, sew threads on it, this blank will become hair. It remains to dress her. This will help the pattern of a sundress for a doll.
Sew the shelf and back on the sides, you need to bend on top, hem, thread a ribbon here to tie the dress. Sew a lace ribbon down to decorate it.
To make shoes for a doll, cut out felt or leatherette pieces according to the patterns below. Next, you need to sew these elements.
Embroider the nose and mouth, and the eyes can be used ready-made for toys, stick them on the doll's face. Then it's time to hand this doll to the baby.
Continuing the topic, you can delve deeper into the process by learning how a folk rag doll of nude babies is made.
If you liked felt dolls, then see how the craftswomen create them.
