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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby Faydreams » Wed May 29, 2013 1:01 pm

I normally use recycled clothes to make things for my dolls. The fabric is cheap and you usually get more than you need with it. :lol:

This is made from an ugly old suit someone gave me years ago. I've made and made things from that fabric. Funny enough it looks a lot better on dolls.

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Monster High Ooak Witch Dress by faydreams, on Flickr

Made this from a man's shirt found at Goodwill.

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1875 to 1880 French Vest Bodice by faydreams, on Flickr

Of course for tiny stripes children's tops are so much easier to find them to scale than any fabric store. Erin is posing in a pair of leggings made from some and a top (intended for my 27cm obitsu guy) made from baby clothes.

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Handmade Leggins for 25 cm Obitsu by faydreams, on Flickr
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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby SillyLilPuppet » Wed Jun 05, 2013 12:18 am

Somewhere I have two pair of pants made from human clothes. One made from the leg of a pair of jeans, and one made from a sweatshirt sleeve (this is a GREAT way to make yoga pants for girls by the way) The jeans were more complicated since you had to have jeans with the same type of seam for both sides, but the sweatshirt sleeve is super easy.
Cut off sleeve, cut off cuff, cut to right length (don't forget hem allowance, and measure from the wrist down, so the wrist will become the waist)Then sew the top edge, I suggest putting a channel for elastic in there, turn inside out and put on your doll. Mark where seam should go up to (again include some allowance for sitting or your dolls butt will show when they sit), take em off and cut then sew the legs. Hem em and you're done! Plus you get two pairs out of any given sweatshirt or hoodie, and the torso fabric to make shirts or something out of. Plain ones are so cheap to buy brand new and so easy to make stuff out of, especially for beginners.
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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby Alopecia No Hime » Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:45 am

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His entire outfit (most of his wardrobe actually..>_>; I love sewing for MSD size but fabric is expensive man!) was made out of my old clothes. The pants are made from some pants I've been using for doll clothes anyways, (still had a crap load leftover) The shirt made from a shirt I used to enjoy wearing as a kid.
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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby MitisFeles » Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:31 am

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Adel's jeans were made from a pair of leggins. I still can do lots ando lots of 1/6 sized jeans with their cloth ^_^''' He also has underwear made from t-shirt scraps. Fabric is often really expensive and it's not simply to find exacty what you need so I nearly always end in harvesting real clothes.
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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby she_flame » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:43 pm

I like also use recycled materials. As said, they are cheap (clothes from second-hand stores etc.) and fabric is washed at least few times, so it isn't so stiff as brand new. And because the relatively small size of dolls (SDs are quite big), one recycled garment is enough for full skrit/shirt/pants.

On side note, I have seen talk about "sock-clothes", and I kinda found it funny, as I did hoodie for my friend's Minifee from old pair of socks. (The hood on that isn't large enough to fit on her dolls head, but it looks fine hood down too.)
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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby OkamiKodomo » Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:45 pm

We have had discussions on sock clothes, it's even in the Manifesto! :) lol socks are great clothing sources, especially for tiny prints.
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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby CrazyYoungCatLady » Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:00 pm

I made this shirt out of one of my old t-shirts that I don't wear anymore.

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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby koratheexplora » Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:42 am

So many of you have posted beautiful recycled outfits. I'm on my iPad but I'll post from my computer tomorrow.
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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby koratheexplora » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:03 am

I recycle lots of old clothing for my dolls. These are just a few examples:

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Lenora is wearing a dress I made from a woman's dress (the skirt portion, not the bodice of the woman's dress)

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Lenka is wearing a dress I made from a toddler/baby skirt.

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Nolita is wearing a dress I made from the same toddler/baby skirt.

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Lenora is wearing a scarf made from a teen skirt.

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Dashelle is wearing a dress made from the same teen skirt.

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Edrie is wearing a skirt made from a teen top.

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Nolita is wearing a dress I made from a Forever 21 dress.

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Flicka is wearing a dress made from the same Forever 21 dress.

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Nolee is wearing a dress made from a woman's dress (the skirt portion again)
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Re: Recycling old clothes for dolls

Postby roguewolf128 » Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:10 pm

Wow, I'm glad this thread kept going, every one is posting awesome stuff!
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