Tilda is not a doll name, as some might think, it is a brand invented by a young, pretty girl from Norway, Tony Finger. Tildes can be young dolls, any animals, birds, hearts, eggs and even flowers. Tony created a huge magical world where all kinds of tildes live. She has written and published more than ten books in which she shares secrets on how to sew a tilda doll with her own hands. But this craftswoman seemed a little. Now the Tilda brand has spread to patchwork and scrapbooking. If she can create a tilde, then each of us can. You just need to really want and work hard.
Tools for work
To make any craft, you need materials, and for most gizmos, tools are also needed. To sew a tilde with your own hands, you will definitely need:
1. Scissors.
2. Needles and pins.
3. Pencil, crayon or soap.
4. Thin long stick. It is useful to turn the product on the front side and fill it with filler.
5. Iron.
6. Sewing machine (if any).
7. Adhesive tape.
Materials
The type of material depends on which particular tilda doll you are going to make with your own hands. If this is a small animal, you will need fabrics that are suitable for its body. Good animals come out of terry
cloth, velvet, velor. But plain cotton and linen also look good. To create girls and ladies, you need cotton, linen or chintz fabric, similar in color to body color. You can take white and dye it in tea. So, the materials for creating a girl need the following:
1. The fabric. Dimensions are what size doll you need. Do not forget that the fabric will need to be folded in half.
2. Threads for sewing. Ideal if they are matched to the tone of the fabric.
3. Threads for your lady's hairstyle. This can be wool for knitting, boucle (the girl will turn out with curls), synthetic thick threads, if you want to make the lady extravagant.
4. Filler. Often use a synthetic winterizer or holofiber. If there is neither one nor the other, you can cut the old tights into small pieces. It is better not to take cotton, because it is difficult to fill the dollās body evenly with it.
5. Paper.
6. Fabrics for doll clothes.
7. All kinds of accessories. What will it be: ribbons, beads, lace, beads or something else - your imagination will tell.
Preparation for work
They say that the result of any business will be good, if you prepare for it correctly. Before proceeding directly to the creation of the tilde, you need to iron the fabric for its future body, carefully fold it in half with the front side inward and chop it with pins so that it does not fidget. The next step is to imagine what it will be, your tilda doll. Do-it-yourself patterns, if not ready, this is a separate creative process. You need to take a sheet of paper, you can cardboard, or you can ordinary tracing paper. On it, draw in full size the contours of the dollās body with the head, two arms and two legs. You can draw one arm and one leg, and then transfer them to the fabric twice. A distinctive feature of the tild design is a seam in the middle of the face or face. Therefore, the contours of the body are drawn on the side. A nose looms on the head. Some sew dolls with flat faces and sew parts on the sides, but the classic tilde still has a front seam.
Handles, legs, cucumber
The preparation is over. We begin to create a tilda doll with our own hands. The master class offered in this article tells how to make a tilde girl:
1. Carefully cut out the contours of her future body from paper.
2. We put them on the fabric.
3. Circle. Cut not in a hurry.
4. We sew or sew manually on the drawn lines. Be sure to leave the lower torso, arms and legs unstitched at the points of attachment to the body. You also need to consider that there will be a seam on the face and cut this place with special care.
5. Iron it all with an iron.
6. Now cut, be sure to step back from the edge. In places where the lines are rounded, it is preferable to make small cuts.
7. We turn on the front side. If the tildeās arms and legs are too thin, itās convenient to twist them with a sushi stick. It is also possible to attach a long dense thread to the āfingersā on the inside. In order to turn out the handle or leg, you just need to pull on this thread.
Volumetric
As a result of the work done, a torso with a head, two legs and two arms should be obtained. We begin to fill them. This case is not as simple as it might seem. If you shove the filler inaccurately, the girlās body will turn bumpy. If it is not enough to put it over time, it will fail. If you overdo it, the doll will not be able to sit, it will only lie or stand, leaning against the support. Therefore, in order for the tilda toys to be created correctly with their own hands, one needs to take as much filler so that the body turns out to be stable and at the same time soft enough.
Filling the arms and legs, we start with the fingers. To do this, it is convenient to use a thin stick. Place the knees, leaving them without filler. Then the tilde will be able to put his legs in any position. To make the doll comfortable sitting, a little less can be inserted in the place of attachment of the legs to the body of the filler. Got it in? Now we collect the whole body from the parts. Some craftswomen do not sew hands to the body, but make them on buttons.
Hairstyle
You can make a tilde in a hat or cap, like a dwarf. But, according to the generally accepted opinion, hair is an adornment of any woman. A do-it-yourself tilda doll is no exception. Therefore, we will make a wig for her. The length, color and texture of the hair depends only on your imagination. The threads selected for hair should be carefully laid out in one layer and in the center fastened with a strip of adhesive tape. Next, in the center of the tape, gently stitch the hair twice. Remove the adhesive tape, and attach the resulting thread lining to the dollās head and sew it carefully. In this case, the parting will turn out in the middle. You can make it right or left. You can leave your hair straight, or you can braid it or tie ponytails. There are also craftswomen who sew their hair to their tildes to the head, stitch by stitch - each thread separately.
Makeup
Your doll is almost ready. It remains to make her face. Its character will depend on how you position your eyes, how to draw or how to embroider your mouth, how to brown your cheeks. Yes, yes, these dolls are just that. Your tilda, created with your own hands, can turn out to be a naive simpleton, a kind angel, a cute coquette or a grouchy bastard. Therefore, create her face with special diligence and inspiration. The tilde's eyes are embroidered. As a rule, neither beads, nor buttons, nor beads are attached to their place. Very rarely do tildes with eyelashes, but this is rather the exception. Eye color can be, like in humans, any. But more often they are made dark. The mouth is drawn in pencil or embroidered with thread. Good tildes are always smiling. Cheeks are convenient to brown with ordinary ladies blush. Thatās probably all. The naked tilde lies before you in all its glory.
The main thing is that the suit is sitting
There is a saying: "Meet by clothes." So your tilde, to please the eye, must be decently dressed. The style of her outfit is your own business. You can make a coquette from a doll, dressing it in a short skirt and a T-shirt-top, and put legs in shoes. You can create a simple girl out of her by sewing on her a dress with a small pattern, a full skirt and sleeves-lanterns, tie it with an apron, put socks on your legs. A lot of options. Some craftswomen, when they create tilda dolls with their own hands, clothes are sewn to their body. This is probably convenient from some points of view. But you can donāt sew clothes on, but put them on a tilde like any other doll. In addition to dresses and skirts, shoes are created for them, and sometimes hats. Sneakers are often made from shoes. For this, the sole of the slipper is cut out of any dense material, commensurate with the size of the dollās foot. Two thin strips are cut from any soft material and attached to the soles. Here you have the slippers. If desired, you can ennoble them with beads. In addition, tilde can sew lace panties and fishnet stockings.