Thanks to the ever-increasing interest in handmade products, you can set up a very creative and interesting home business sewing collectible textile dolls. The attractiveness lies in the relatively small investment, plus the stable demand for this product!

 

Works of art are not only paintings by famous artists and figurines of great sculptors. Today, the so-called handmade and, in particular, handmade dolls are highly valued. They are considered collectible at the proper level of execution and can be very, very expensive!

We invite you to get acquainted with this opportunity to make money at home, namely, creating collectible textile dolls with your own hands.

The relevance of this type of business

Since ancient times, dolls have accompanied humans. The most interesting thing is that they were not always made for children. They served as a powerful tool in both rituals and magic, and then became simply excellent interior decoration.

The ancient Slavs believed that the soul lived in a doll; these rather primitive products served as amulets. Today, handmade dolls sewn from the most ordinary textiles have gained particular popularity in the hearts of lovers of beauty. If you have minimal sewing skills, then you can also try your hand at this endeavor!

To roughly estimate the demand for this type of handicraft, to get an idea of ​​the target audience and potential buyers, we suggest using the Yandex.Wordstat service:

Figure 3 search result for the keyword "Handmade dolls"

Thus, you can see that with due interest it is quite possible to achieve good results, the main thing is to approach the quality of the work with all seriousness. It may not work out the first time, but it’s definitely worth trying to get something like this:

Target audience research

This point is very important when it comes to starting any business, even a home one! In our case, if we start from monitoring in Yandex.Wordstat, we can see that the circle of potential clients is not limited only to lovers of exclusively collectible handmade textile dolls, since a doll is a doll, and many mothers and fathers, grandparents They will want to buy one for their child, given that it is usually made from environmentally friendly materials.

This is also a wonderful gift for young girls. If you add good PR here, then in the end there is a chance to make such a seemingly small business quite large!

Required materials

You shouldn’t buy materials in large quantities to begin with. For the sake of objectivity, we will evaluate only the most necessary things - that is, for creating a doll body, hair and drawing a face. Each master creates his own unique clothes, and accordingly, the costs for them will be different; calculating this is practically impossible!

In a convenient table, we have collected for you the main materials that will be useful for creating a handmade doll:

You can also use paints (oil, acrylic), even cosmetics (eye shadows and blush). Usually dolls are sewn by hand without using a sewing machine, then the product becomes even more valuable in the eyes of true lovers. In order not to make meaningless calculations, threads were not taken into account, but their cost is practically negligible, so we see that starting a business does not require large investments.

Calculating benefits

So, to sew 1 doll, 0.25 meters of calico will be enough for us, and by default, we will need to immediately buy a set of pencils and at least one tuft of wool to create the doll’s “hairstyle.”

In total, for the fabric 37.5 rubles, as well as 285 rubles for the tools, of which the pencils will serve faithfully for many more years - that is, in total you will need less than 300 rubles to start, and in fact - about 200. The amount is simple funny.

On average, they ask for about 1,500 rubles for 1 doll, depending on the level of its production. Thus, the net profit is 750%! Very good. A great incentive to develop your skills.

Doll pattern

As for the pattern, it is very simple and publicly available; you can use this one, which we offer on the pages of the site:

We are sure that you will create a masterpiece the first time, because so many needlewomen have already made sewing dolls their main form of stable income, why won’t you succeed too?

Each master has his own techniques, patterns and peculiarities of sewing an interior doll. In this master class we will try to explain in great detail how this is usually done. The material is suitable even for beginners without experience. So let's get started.

MK interior doll from A to Z

What we need:

Sewing machine.
Knitwear for the body, non-woven fabric, cotton, knitwear for clothing.
Boots for a doll, a hat for a doll, hair tresses.
White and beige threads, needles.
Filling: padding polyester and padding polyester. You can only use padding polyester if you can’t find padding polyester.
Large (long) needle for sewing arms and legs.
The glue is transparent.
Invisible needles or safety pins.
Scissors.

So, the first and most important thing is the pattern. Print on A4 and cut out.

To sew the body you will need knitwear. You can purchase special doll knitwear that has almost no stretch. Most often it is found under the name “White Angel”. You can get simple knitwear from a fabric store. To prevent it from stretching too much, glue it with non-woven fabric. We glue the fabric from the inside out, except for the place where the head will be. We fold and pin facing each other, outline the pattern, and stitch. The parts are not completely stitched together. There are still places for turning and a place where the ball for the head is inserted.

We cut out the body parts using zigzag scissors. If you don’t have these, then cut them out using regular ones and be sure to make small notches in the folds, for example on the neck. We just take this cut edge and carefully, not reaching the seam a couple of millimeters, trim it.

After we have stitched all the details, we need to finalize the legs. We take the leg, fold it in the area of ​​the foot, seam to seam and draw a rounded line.

Sew along this line. Cut it out. This is what we should get.

We turn the parts inside out using a wooden stick.

Let's get to the head. We will need a foam ball 8 cm in diameter. We cut out a circle from padding polyester, such that it completely covers the ball when wrapped.

We wrap the ball and insert it into the head through the space that is not sewn up at the top.

If you don’t want to make a nose for your doll, then you can skip the next step. For the spout we will need a safety pin with a bead at the end, a piece of padding polyester, thread and glue. So, let's take a pin. Apply glue to the tip of the plastic bead. Wrap it with a strip of padding polyester. Then we fold this roll on the bead in half. We tie a thread around the base of this ball.

The necessary strip of padding polyester.

A roll wrapped around a bobby pin.

We folded this roll in half and wrapped it with thread at the base.

We mark on the face with an invisible pencil where our nose will be.

Carefully move the fabric aside and, at the place where the needle enters the ball, insert our nose and remove the invisible one.

Sew up the head.

Now the most crucial and difficult moment is the neck. For the neck you will need a wooden stick. We cut Chinese chopsticks and sharpen the end. You can use wooden skewers, but they are more brittle. You will also need a strip of padding polyester and glue.

We cut out a strip of padding polyester in a width equal to the length of the stick to the point, and the length is such that when rolled into a roll it will cover the neck approximately. Lubricate the stick with glue and, starting from the end, roll the padding polyester into a roll around the stick - like a carpet.

Carefully insert this roller into the body through the lower unsewn hole and prick the ball in the head onto the tip of the stick. For a beginner, it can be difficult to get a beautiful neck right away. With experience it gets better and better.

We stuff the body with synthetic fluff. Carefully, in small pieces. Help yourself with a wooden stick. If you don’t have padding polyester, then you can use padding polyester, tearing and fluffing it into small pieces. Stuff tightly.

First we stuff the neck with a stick. We try to level everything so that there are no bumps.

After the neck is smooth and neat, you can stuff the body without a stick, using your hands. A very important point! The padding should be very dense and tight. This is necessary so that our doll can stand later. This applies to the torso, arms, and legs. Take your time, use small pieces. Large pieces give the so-called cellulite - an uneven surface of the doll.

Sew up the bottom.

We stuff our arms and legs using the same principle. There is no way to do this without a stick. Advice: first put boots on your feet, and then stuff them. This can again be done using a stick. We insert it into the leg and put it into the shoe. And then we stuff it. This will help the foot not to deform during padding and take the shape of the shoe. Sew up the holes in the arms and legs.

Let's start with clothes. We cut out pantaloons. Take the fabric. Place them facing each other. We draw our pattern on the fabric. Hem the top and bottom. And then we sew the upper side seams.

We unfold and sew the bottom seams so that we get panties.

Turn it inside out and put it on the legs through the top.

We insert the torso between the legs. We fix it with safety pins, or better, if available, with long needles. And we sew it by button fastening the legs to the body.

That is, you insert a needle into one leg and stitch it through the torso to the other leg. At the same time, you sew through the buttons on each side.

We put on our pants. We gather them at the back and sew them to the body. If they turn out to be too wide for the leg, then they can be gathered with a thread and sewn to the legs.

We sew a dress. It will consist of a separate top, skirt and sleeves. Sew the top part. To do this, we need to measure the circumference of the torso at the waist and the height of this upper part.

The girth is 21 cm and the height is 7.5 cm. For the allowance we add 0.5 cm in width and 2 cm in height.

So, we need to cut out a rectangle 21.5x9.5 cm. And hem it on a machine on both sides along the width.

Then we make grooves on both sides. To do this, we apply our cut to the body, wrap it and mark the fold of the fabric for ourselves. You can first draw a line and sweep it by hand. We sew one side. We do not sew it all the way, since at the bottom we have the length that we need. And it doesn't need to be reduced.

We apply it again to the body and in the same way mark the excess on the second side, which needs to be removed into the dart. We stitch it. We apply it to the body, secure it with pins and carefully sew the two halves at the back. This is what the top looks like:

We sew a skirt. Everything is simple here. From the waist, measure the length of the skirt you need. Please note that if the skirt is full, it will look shorter. Cut out a rectangle equal in width to the length of your skirt + 2 cm for allowances, and as long as you want. The more, the more magnificent. For this doll, I made the length 45 cm. If one piece of fabric is missing, then you can sew two. So, we cut it out, hemmed the edges, and then sewed it into one circle. They gathered it along the length with thread and tightened it at the waist. Then they sewed it directly to the body.

This is a petticoat. The skirt is pleated at the top. The technology is the same. Sewn on by hand.

Down you can wear a tulle skirt for fullness. To hide the seam, you can glue or sew braid or lace onto the belt.

The jacket is made of jersey, but you can use either cotton or denim. In this example, jersey and cotton are used as the lining fabric. We cut the fabric facing each other. Let's draw a pattern. We don’t sew all the way through. We turn it inside out through the hole and sew it up by hand.

We attach our jacket to the doll and secure it with pins. We sew it in the center. Decorate with a button or something else. You don’t have to sew it, then it won’t be fastened on the doll.

Sew the bottom on a small rectangular piece of knitwear. We chop off the face and draw the sleeves. Place the handles on the fabric and mark where the sleeve should go.

We sew it, turn it inside out and put it on our hands.

We sew the arms in the same way as the legs, using button fastening.

The last stage is the hair. Hair can be made from artificial tresses or from natural sheep curls. You can also use yarn or wool for felting. How to make hair from tresses?

We will need tresses, transparent glue, or a needle and thread, safety pins, and a comb.

There are two options. The first one is to glue the tresses with glue, the second one is to sew them with threads. For beginners, the second option is easier. It's easier. Here's how to glue the tresses.

Draw a line around the head with a simple pencil. Squeeze out a small layer of glue along this line.

Apply the base of the tresses to this layer and secure with pins. The pins are only needed for a few seconds for the glue to set. When we glue the second row, we already take out the pins from the first.

In the same way, the third row, etc. Until the tress runs out.

You can sew tresses to your head in the same way using threads in a spiral. It will take a little longer, but your hands will be clean from glue :) Or buy a wig, it fits on your head and is easily sewn along the edge.

We draw the eyes with acrylic paint and blush the cheeks with regular blush or pastel.

We put on a hat, decorate it to your taste (a bear, or a handbag, or anything else), and voila! The doll is ready :)

Sometimes you really want to create something extraordinary, soulful, beautiful, for example, sew a lovely doll. But one little thing stops me... To work, I need a full-size textile machine.

And this article will help needlewomen solve this problem. From here, life-size textiles of the manufacturing technique that most appeals to him will be transferred to the master’s piggy bank. And then let your imagination help you create something that will surprise and captivate everyone around you.

Such different hand-sewn dolls!

A child learns about the world through play. And that is why textile dolls appeared on earth. They served as toys for children from poor families and were created using the most primitive technology.

But gradually manufacturing as a separate type of creativity occupied its niche in handicrafts. It can even be called one of the trends in art. Today, there are dolls not only for games, but also for interior decoration. They are often used as a heating pad for a teapot.

The arms and legs are sewn to the body in the right places. Some people put stitches in their knees. Then the tilde will be able to bend its legs. Just don’t stuff the part too much in this case.

The tilde face is not very developed. Usually the craftsman limits himself to small eyes, sewing on buttons or beads or embroidering a small “dot”. But more attention should be paid to the hair - this is an important part of the appearance of a real tilde.

Waldorf doll

Most often, the tilde is an interior decoration. But the Waldof doll is quite suitable as a children's toy. And all because the faces of these cute dolls are worked out with greater precision than those of tildes.

A distinctive feature of these dolls is their protruding nose. Making it is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. It is enough to first make a preparation for the head - make a ball out of fabric and fill it tightly with filler. Then a smaller bead or ball is attached to the template - it will imitate a spout. A thin layer of padding polyester is laid on top of the resulting workpiece and the main fabric is stretched. Now it is clearly visible that the nose rises above the cheeks.

The face itself is either carefully drawn with paints or embroidered with floss threads.

Sometimes craftsmen pay special attention to the toes and arms of the dolls. This is true for those toys that represent babies. It will help the master to ensure that a textile doll has such feet, master class.

Pumpkin head patterns

And these dolls have their own technique for making the most important part - the head. It is cut out from four to six identical parts, reminiscent of a flower petal. Here is a head which is made of 6 parts.

Arms and legs are sewn in the same way as for dolls made using other techniques. But the problem with keeping the rather large head of a toy on a thin neck may arise for the master. Experts advise using wooden skewers to solve this problem. First, they pierce the doll’s body with a skewer, bringing the sharp end 4-5 cm above the cut on the neck. Then the ready-made pumpkin head, stuffed with filling, is pricked onto the tip. For insurance, you can use a couple or even three skewers. It is best to break off the lower end and take it out at the level of the doll’s waist.

Each master must understand that he has every right to make his own changes to the appearance of the product. After all, only thanks to the manifestation of the creative imagination of the authors, new technologies for making textile dolls appear in the world and this type of creativity develops.

Interior textile dolls by Master LenAlyon -
handmade collectible angels and fairies

Alena - Professional textile designer. She has worked and works with various types of artistic textiles. Quite recently I became interested in textile dolls. Uses exclusively high quality materials.

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