Freebie Friday - Doll Making Tutorials from Jointing to Accessories

I've recently found some great doll making tutorials out there on the net.  Here's a round up of some inspiring doll making links.  Of course there are many more, just use the Google search box at the top left of my blog to search out past links.

Craftside shared how to make a basket for a doll out of foam as excerpted from Patti Medaris Culea's book Creative Cloth Doll Collection.  If you haven't already got all of Patti Culea's books on cloth doll making, then this collection is a great compilation.  You can even get it in a Kindle edition.  (Look out for my doll Loiseau between the pages of this volume).

Craftside also shared how to make yarn doll hair  as excerpted from Cloth Doll Workshop, written by Patti Culea, Barbara Willis and Elinor Peace Bailey.

Judi Ward shared her special doll jointing technique in the following video:

 

 Doll artist Jessica Acosta Hamilton shared s great tutorial on her blog Doll Project for making simple slipper shoes for dolls.

Jessica Acosta Hamilton also shared some tips for where to find some unique doll making supplies including tiny zippers.

Ric Rac shared a super fun tutorial to make a personalised cloth doll using a friend or family member's face printed onto fabric.  What a great gift, huh?

Lotta Jansdotter shared another personalised soft doll tutorial that I found via the Burda Style blog. Using her son’s drawings of super heroes and monsters, Lotta created very simple cloth dolls using transfer paper and lightweight cotton fabric. Watch the below video to see how to make your kids or grandkids drawings into dolls:

Untitled from Kaplow Communications on Vimeo.

Anna Branford shared a tutorial to make her pebble dolls.  These are simple embroidered linen dolls that look rather like pebbles. 

If rag dolls are more your speed check out The Crafting Fiend's Modest Mermaid Doll pattern here.

Jennifer Carson shared a tutorial for needle felting hair, eyes and fangs onto a cloth doll on her blog.

Instructables user JL Larson shared a tutorial on how to convert a full size commercial sewing pattern to a doll size.

So many things to learn about dolls, so little time....

Comments

[Jessica Hamilton]

Thanks so much for featuring some of my free tutorials! Your blog is wonderful and I am so glad I was made aware of it today :].