Homemade soft toys are favorite products from hand-made craftsmen. And if only a few years ago, crafts made on patterns were most popular, today artisans find new materials for making such toys. Everything is used: pompons, burlap, and sometimes even tights. Touching babies, pink-cheeked dolls, funny gnomes and angels - dolls from tights are very different.
How to sew a doll from tights
At the heart of such a doll is usually a wire frame or plastic bottles. To make such a toy, first of all, you need to choose tights. If they are too thin, then you can fold them in half. The first doll is best made from knitwear. This material is more difficult to spoil during operation. Although it is especially interesting how alive, dolls from nylon tights look . For padding, a synthetic winterizer is used, you will also need:
- threads of one tone with tights;
- threads for making hair;
- rags of fabric for clothing;
- a floss for embroidering the eyes and lips of a doll;
- sewing needles;
- pins
- thick "gypsy" needle;
- wire for the frame.
The pattern is based on the size of the head. In order to make the model more realistic in size, the following proportions must be observed. The length of the head is half the length of the arm, and the length of the body is equal to the length of the arm. Thus, you can sew Waldorf dolls from tights - the first pedagogical dolls specially designed for kindergarten kids for a harmonious natural development.
On the other hand, the smaller the model, the more difficult it is to sew clothes for the doll and perform smaller parts: fingers and toes, nose and more.
After all the necessary materials are selected, you can begin to make dolls from tights. The head is done first.
To do this, using a syntepon, a flat cake is formed and inserted into the previously cut “legs” from the tights. Now a small ball of synthetic winterizer rolls up and is placed in the middle of the workpiece - this will be the nose, ears are also added. Then, other anatomical features of the ears and nose are formed with threads to match the tights. Instead of embroidery, eyes and lips can be painted with acrylic paint or you can buy special eyes for soft toys in creative stores. The character of the pantyhose doll completely depends on what kind of facial expression you get. The photo shows how different such toys can be.
Now the wire frame is being manufactured. Its appearance is completely dependent on the doll. Some simple wireframe models do not. Next, the frame is fitted with a synthetic winterizer, and after that, tights and a ready-made head are put on. The fingers and toes are made in the same way as the nose and ears. The final appearance of the toy is attached to the thread. The hair of a doll from tights is sewn, depending on the chosen model. For more complex models, each strand of hair is sewn in a circle, starting from the crown. If there is no time for such labor-intensive work, then you can purchase fringed threads and simply sheathe the doll’s head with them. You can also use faux fur, which is glued or sewn.