It is impossible to imagine our life without such a toy as a doll. The modern doll is bright, fashionable, beautiful. Often dolls are accompanied by outfits, houses, cars.
But, despite all this splendor, rag dolls, created with their own hands, are becoming increasingly popular. They are used not only for playing, interior dolls, amulets are in fashion now.
Creating dolls, craftswomen put in their products not only craftsmanship, but also their whole soul. A toy, handmade, will always be a great gift.
How to make a beautiful doll with your own hands, you ask? In our article we will talk about this.
Doll story
A doll accompanies humanity literally from the beginning of time. Carved from wood or molded from clay, dolls accompanied the rituals of shamans and sorcerers, they were animated and deified.
Slavic peoples made knitwear from bunches of straw and rags of fabric, mainly they were talismans for the house from ailments, evil spirits and misfortunes.
Children's toys, too, of course have always been. Animal figures were carved from wood, dolls were sewn from scraps of fabric and stuffed with straw.
Much later, when porcelain dolls in luxurious clothes began to produce, only very wealthy people bought them, children of ordinary people played with rag toys.
Mechanical dolls were first made in the 18th century in China and also cost fabulous money. Now dolls are sewn not for economy, but in order to have something original and exclusive.
Charm for home
The most difficult doll in needlework is a charm, knitted, made of bunches of straw, thread and pieces of fabric.
Knitting, because the doll is not sewn with thread, and its details are interconnected. Ideally, even scissors are not used in the work on the amulet, tear off the necessary pieces of the cloth with your hands, and tie the doll’s parts together with threads.
A product will be a wonderful talisman if you sew it from the owner’s worn clothes, worn at the best moments in life.
Eyes and mouth amulets are not drawn. Externally, amulets may differ, it depends on who they are made for, newborns for intercession, newlyweds for happiness in family life, for a house of abundance and prosperity. Charms for wealth and an excellent harvest are decorated with wheat, seeds, nuts. For good health, they make a herbalist doll, filling it with fragrant herbs.
You need to make a talisman in a good mood, sing songs, read prayers, talk about pleasant things.
The doll absorbs good emotions and words, and the same good will exude in your home.
You can’t interrupt the work on the amulet, so prepare everything in advance, choose the time so that you are not distracted and finish the work to the end.
To make a crochet doll you will need:
- white flap for making a head
- filler (synthetic winterizer)
- patches of colored fabric (10 * 10 hands, 5 * 8 apron, 9 * 16 skirt)
- mouline thread for hairstyle and tying
Wrap the filler with a white cloth and tightly wrap the thread, the “tail” of the fabric will be the body.
Note!
Flap skirts with folds and tie to the body, do the same with an apron, without tearing the thread to wind it up to the head of the doll, making a beautiful torso.
A piece of tissue for hands to collect accordion in length and wrap a thread. Hands cross the cross to the doll’s body.You can put a scarf on your head, or you can make hair out of thread.
Stitched dolls
The world of stitched dolls is diverse, here you can find soft and cozy toys for children, sophisticated elegant interior dolls and wonderful variations that are not in the right proportions.
The Tilda doll, which appeared not so long ago, has become extremely popular. Such a chrysalis has disproportionately long legs and arms; only eyes and cheeks are depicted on the face.
Below is a pattern of Tilda's dolls, to realize your intentions.
The creative potential of each needlewoman is diverse and each stitched doll is unique.
Note!
A beginner can start by sewing little felt dolls, the clothes of these pretty women are embroidered from beads and don't be afraid, these dolls always come out.
For needlework, prepare:
- felt fabric
- yarn for hair
- filler
- kapron threads
- beads
You can use a ready-made pattern, you can draw a template yourself, everything is at your discretion. Transfer the pattern to felt and cut the blanks. Embroider or draw a face on one of the blanks.
Now you can embroider, on each of the blanks, the dress with beads. Sew dresses for the doll separately and regularly change outfits. To make a hairstyle, cut yarn 15-20 cm long and sew on both billets along the forehead and nape lines.
Next, fold both of our figures with their faces facing out and sew with any beautiful seam, leaving a small hole for stuffing the doll with filler. After filling, the hole is sutured, the doll is ready.
Note!
The sewing method presented above allows you to create any kind of dolls, and change patterns as you wish.
Kapron dolls
Recently, kapron dolls have become popular, kapron allows you to make any expression on the face of the doll.
How to sew such a gorgeous doll? To create this kind of dolls, experience is required, and now we will present a simpler version of sewing from kapron.
You will need:
- nylon tights
- filler
- beads
- threads
- thread floss for hair
- safety pins.
Start by filling out and creating a form. After filling, tie the top tightly or sew up. To create a face, use pins, for example, marking the nose, stick pins in place of the nostrils and flash between them, as shown in the photo.
- To stitch the nostrils and wings of the nose with literally two stitches, each new part of the face must be stitched with a new thread.
- Cheeks are pierced with a pin from top to bottom and are also stitched.
- The line of the mouth is stitched, also after forming it with pins.
- The navel of the doll is marked with pins and stitched, to create the legs using an estimate seam.
- Sew beads in place of the eyes, do a hairstyle on the head, stitching thread floss.
- Eyebrows and eyelashes are easily drawn, clothes for the doll can be any, at your discretion.
There are many techniques for sewing dolls and the types of toys themselves, do not be afraid to experiment and you will succeed. Introducing photos of dolls for inspiration.
DIY dolls photo
