How to sew a dress for a doll? This is a question that interests every girl. The most important thing is patience and accuracy. It is necessary to have special accessories that every housewife has in her house - these are scissors, a needle, threads, all kinds of beads, rhinestones, sequins, ribbons and various shreds.
There is nothing complicated if you are ready to make a little effort and learn how to sew a dress for a doll with your own hands.
You should start with the selection of flaps and related materials. Depending on what fabrics you have available, you can sew different types of dresses.
How to sew a dress for a patchwork doll?
Summer casual dress can be made from a variety of fabrics, such as cotton, chintz, silk, chiffon, satin, crepe satin, etc. From household old things you can use handkerchiefs, scarves, scarves, old pillowcases or baby diapers.
For evening wear, you can use silk, chiffon, chintz, fabric oil, viscose, stretch satin, crepe satin, stretch velvet, various types of decorated stretch canvas with fashionable prints, etc. From home products trim from dresses and custom-made suits. Also, scarves, scarves and even pieces of decorative belts, headbands, elastic rims and bracelets will fall to the place.
Winter warm dress can be sewn from fairly dense materials. French knitwear, lacoste knitwear , various costume fabrics, jeans, fleece, gabardine, drapes, leather, etc. are suitable. Interesting options can be made from old jeans, jackets, bytes, bags, belts, unnecessary hoods.
How to sew a dress for a doll without a pattern?
The hardest part is the cut. Such needlework is not for everyone. How to sew a dress for a Bratz doll (Barbie, Moxy, etc.) without a pattern? This question is relevant for many modern girls. It is very simple, because a doll will wear it. To do this, simply determine the girth of the chest, waist and hips of the toy fashionista.
Since the pupae have a larger head circumference than humans (in relation to the teu), they certainly need to make an incision on the back or chest and sew a fastener. As a rule, it is easiest to use regular Velcro. There is still the opportunity to make a dress from old thin things on a delicate thin zipper. Then this zipper will go to the fastener.
So, depending on the desired model and width, we will tailor the future dress.
It is necessary to assemble a skirt, which in finished form will correspond to the width of the doll’s waist. If you want to make the skirt fluffy, then apply a simple technology - cut a rectangle of fabric equal in length to the distance from the waist to the shoes, and take an arbitrary width - the larger it is, the thicker the assembly and the fluffier skirt. Feel free to take a width 3-4-5 times the hip circumference. The upper section of the future skirt should be strung on a thread, collecting it to the size of the waist circumference. Then you should sew a narrow elastic band inside, which in a calm unstretched state will be equal to the waist circumference, and remove the original assembly thread. Then close the seam connecting the two vertical edges of the rectangle. You will get such a dome - an elastic band at the top, a wide hem at the bottom and a stitched middle seam that will go either back or in one of the sides - to choose from.
The bottom of the skirt can be processed with any lace, ribbon, sequins, rhinestones, beads. The length of the skirt and its width can be changed to your taste.
As for the top of the dress, the one here is a little more complicated. The easiest way is to carve out a rectangle with a width equal to the circumference of the chest and a height from the armpit to the waist. Do not forget to always add half a centimeter to the seam allowances that will remain inside the dress.
This rectangle is not sewn into a closed tube, but Velcro is sewn along its edges on both sides. On the one hand its soft part, on the other - hard. With the help of sewn Velcro, this part should be collected in a tube.
The bottom edge of the tube is sewn to the skirt. The excess can be pinched into the tucks. The upper edge is processed - again with ribbons, rhinestones, lace.
Around the neck, you can circle the decorative ribbon by making a collar on which the dress rests, or sew on straps from ribbons.
Tip: you can sew amazing tight dresses without fasteners from stretch materials.
Interesting ideas
If you take a small elastic band for the hair, fold it in half and push the doll’s arms into the elastic band so that the folded part is on the back, you will get an unusual wrap-bolero. If the elastic is fluffy, then the bolero will be like a fur.
From old mother's belts you can sew mini-skirts made of leather, a substitute and other unusual materials.
Now you know how to sew a dress for Barbie, Bratz and their other girlfriends.