Raising a girl is much harder than a boy. Any parent who has had occasion to educate both will tell you about this. You can’t do with it a couple of cars and a designer, in addition to bows, hairpins, skirts and bracelets, clothes for dolls become a headache for each girl’s mother. How to sew it, where to buy, or how to diversify the whole wardrobe of your daughters favorites?
Now a huge number of different dolls are being produced - plastic, rubber, printed or knitted. They differ in size and appearance, can be infants and adult young ladies. Therefore, there is no single approach to creating such an important thing as clothes for dolls. How to sew it, let's come up with it.
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Very popular among little girls are baby dolls. Sometimes they can be almost indistinguishable from a real newborn. With such dolls, it’s easiest: firstly, you can put on ready-made things that are left, for example, from the daughter herself, or bought in a children's store. And secondly, due to the sufficiently large sizes and quite familiar human proportions of the body, it is quite simple to create things for such toys.
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clothes for dolls. Patterns for its creation can be taken in any sewing magazine for newborns. Another option - you can copy ready-made things from which your daughter grew up. According to them, you should cut the fabric, and then try on the product on a doll, chipped with pins and swept it. In the case when there is a sewing machine or an overlock at home, the task is simplified, but with your hands any item of a toy wardrobe is sewn quickly enough. It must be borne in mind that the daughter will play with the doll, and very actively, and therefore it is necessary to sew the details of future dresses in good conscience, carefully treating the edges of the clothes so that they do not fray and clatter. The finished thing should definitely be washed and ironed before putting on the doll.
In a completely different situation with fashion for the past decade, Barbie. Well, besides them, now there are other young lady dolls with magnificent forms - Bratz, Moksi. They cannot be approached with standard patterns of human outfits. But after all, any girl would like for them to create clothes for dolls. How to sew for Barbie or Bratz? You can take advantage of specialized magazines that appeared on sale for patterns in the toy world. Among such publications, for example, there is the “Puppet Master” or “BurdaPuppenmode”. They are intended for needlewomen, and reveal secrets not only about how to sew the dolls themselves, but also how to create a fashionable and unusual wardrobe for them.
Barbie and Bratz
But if there are no clues, well, we will learn on the go. We sew clothes for Bratz dolls. We will need a sheet of A4 paper, a pencil, a dressmaking tape, scissors, fabric and thread with a needle. To begin with, we attach the future owner of the dress to the sheet and outline the approximate contours of her body. Then, on top of these sketches, we draw the parts of the pattern of the future dress ourselves, at the same time estimating with the help of the tape the length of the individual parts.
We cut out the finished parts of the pattern, apply it to the fabric and begin cutting. Then, as with human clothes, it is necessary to sweep away the future dress, and arrange a doll fitting. In the course of it, adjust the cut and begin to sew. Next, we are guided by the tips already described above.
Conclusion
As you can see, there is nothing easier to sew than clothes for dolls. You now imagine how to sew it, and you can create many interesting wardrobe details for your girl’s darling. By the way, the daughter herself can and should be involved in the sewing process - then he will also be an educational lesson.