Cloth Doll Prairie Flowers from By Hook, By Hand

Posted Monday 17 January 2011 and filed under: Dolls, Tutorials/Free Patterns
Tags: ,cloth, doll, free, jointed, painted, pattern

Beth from By Hook, By Hand is a very talented doll-maker. She has provided a free pattern for a cloth doll (Prairie Flowers) that you can customise to your heart’s content. This is just one example of the doll:

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The instructions are detailed and well-written and Beth gives some great tips too.

Find the template and instructions here: Cloth Doll Prairie Flowers from By Hook, By Hand

Make sure you take a good look around her lovely website too - you’ll find more free doll/doll clothes patterns as well!

Tutorials: Doll’s Wig & Shoes by Zippypops

Posted Tuesday 1 September 2009 and filed under: Embellishing, Tips-n-Tricks
Tags: ,basic, cloth, hair, shoes, simple, synthetic hair, tip, wig

Elise of Zippypops recently contacted me to let me know that she had some tutorials up on her blog. Elise is a very talented doll-maker and you can view and purchase her beautiful creations from her shop.

In this tutorial she shares how to make a doll’s wig using synthetic hair (purchased from a craft shop or costume store) and how to attach it securely to a doll’s head creating this two-bun hair-do:

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Find the tutorial here: How to make and attach a doll’s wig by Zippypops

Elise also shares how you can make these basic doll shoes, which you can then embellish to your heart’s content or keep sweet and simple:

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Find the tutorial here: How to make basic doll shoes by Zippypops

Both tutorials are very clearly written with excellent pictures for each step.