Mini doll making

You can make them easily using a little cloth.
Materials

• cotton jersey (face and arms)

• cotton lawn (lining for the jersey fabric - any thin cloth)

• cloth (dress and cap)

• ribbon

• wool yarn (hair)

• polyester fiberfill

• string to suspend

Tools

• sewing machine, needles, thread, scissors, chalk and so on.

• ruler, chopstick, pencil.

• tacky glue (to stick hair).

• paints or oily felt-tip pen (to paint face).

• rouge.

• toothpick.

Procedure

Making patterns

• Print pattern out on A4 paper. It doesn't have to be precise.

• There are several types of patterns. You choose any type you like.

Copy patterns on the cloth

• Head and arms.
  Pin two sheets of jersey between two sheets of cotton lawn.
  Draw, using a pencil.

• Body.
  It's made in one piece. Mark it with the chalk.

Sewing

• If not using a sewing machine, handsew with small stitches.

• Sew the head and the body around, except at the openings.

• Sew all around the arms, opening a hole with a ripper on one side of each,
  making sure to have one right and one left arm.

Turn inside out

• Cut out with scant 1/8th inch margin. Under the thigh, slit close to the seam.

• Turn arms, using toothpick or other turning tool.

Stuffing with fiberfill

• Fill lightly. Don't fill ears.

• Fill the neck firmly.

• Stitch the head and body openings.

Put skirt on

• Sew cloth (1.6" × 7") in a ring and stitch the hem.

• Fold waistline a scant 1/4" to the inside, make gathers and stitch it to the body.
  Wrap a ribbon around the waist and tie it in a bow behind.

Painting features

• Paint eyes and mouth, using color or pen.

• Rouge the cheeks.

Positioning arms

• Close the hole in each arm, and stitch it to the body,
  a little toward the front of the body.

Positioning head

• Stitch the head to the neck, using large stitches through the filling.

Hair

• Tie the center of the wool yarn, stitching it by hand.

• Style hair and length to your liking. Glue hair on head.

Cap

• Cut a 4-inch diameter circle of fabric.

• Use a thin glue on the edge (to prevent fraying).

• Gather 1 inch inside the edge.

• Place it on doll's head and tack lightly to head.

• Tie ribbon around the gathers.

String tie/pin

• Stitch a string on the top of the head, through the filling,
  or attach a safety pin or pin backing to the back of the doll.

Just complete!

If you are not good at painting faces...

• Draw lightly with a pencil.

• When the face was not as you wanted it to be, paint again on the back of the head.