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soft handmade dolls!

Postby knittnkitten » Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:13 pm

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this girl doesn't have a name yet. her body is made from an old petticoat that I got at a vintage shop years ago, the dress from scraps from a sewing project I did before school started, and like a 1836 dress that I want to make for myself. hair is wool sock yarn, the ruffle is from the same petticoat I made her body from, and a fichu with new lace to fill in the neck line. she's very simple body wise.

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this is Argenta! she's not quite done, she still needs her coat and maybe a backpack. her body is made of linen and firmly stuffed, with wool yarn hair. various fabrics that were leftover from making doll kimono for clothes and fake leather for the boots. the hands and feet are too big and I wish the head was a little bigger, but I'm pretty happy. I;ll adjust the pattern when I make another one.

so what do you guys think?
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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby Ruva » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:14 pm

How cute they are! I love how many different fabric colors and textures make them up, and how nicely it all comes together.
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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby DollyKim » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:59 am

The top one reminds me of Anne of Green Gables.

~must hug them~
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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby Eseme » Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:45 am

I love cloth dolls! Your faces are so well done! All the hugs!

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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby ShortNCuddlyAm » Tue Dec 09, 2014 4:02 pm

Awww - they're lovely :)
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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby knittnkitten » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:33 pm

thanks guys! its been really cathartic to make dolls just for myself, and not giving a fig what anyone else thinks. next one is going to have floofy clothes, then maybe I'll make a rococo one to try out a pattern in small scale that I want to make for myself.
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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby victoriavictrix » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:47 am

52 free cloth doll patterns and tutorials

http://www.sewingsupport.com/sewing-how-to/free-patterns-and-projects/dolls/dolls.html

This is one of them. Check this out! A 1/2 scale mature girl doll!

http://dollmaker.nunodoll.com/girldoll/

This one is on another site, she's very Anime

http://dollmaker.nunodoll.com/girl/
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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby knittnkitten » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:58 am

haha yeah, I've used one of nuno doll's patterns before.
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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby DollyKim » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:33 am

The Doll Book by Etelle Ansley Worrell has a family of 1/6 scale soft dolls with different historical clothes.

You can get the Wish Booklet series strait from the publisher on Amazon. The First Ladies books have a female doll, the men book a male doll (dolls are in the first of the pair) and Vol IX has a kid.
http://www.amazon.com/Susan-B.-Sirkis/e ... 246&sr=8-1
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Re: soft handmade dolls!

Postby knittnkitten » Wed Dec 10, 2014 2:28 pm

I have a pretty good book (actually, I have an embarrassing amount of doll making books at this point) with historical clothes in various doll scales. shoot, what is it called...

anyway, I really wish I could do a better job with sculpting clay dolls, but until then, squishy cloth dolls.
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