Felt Dolls - To Make And Dress
By Peggy Tearle
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Felt Dolls - To Make And Dress - Peggy Tearle
Introduction
One of the first steps in learning a craft is to use your hands—to experiment with the material and to find out what can be done with it—and reflection on this aspect of soft toymaking engendered this family of roly poly
dolls.
In the beginning of the book, which is concerned with this first stage, no pattern more complicated than a rectangle is used. With each toy, however, the work progresses until the elements of pattern cutting are gradually introduced, and plenty of scope for original work will be found in the latter part—Dolls to Dress
.
Long legged and loose limbed, these dolls are mildly acrobatic: easy to manipulate, they can with very slight assistance be made to walk.
FELT DOLLS
to Make and Dress
Dolls to Make
These toys are made without patterns, without stuffing, and with a minimum of seaming, most of which is straight; and since the bodies and limbs are made mainly from rectangles, they can be cut without waste from 9 in. felt squares.
Oddments of cane can be used for making up the cores of the limbs as the size of the individual pieces is not important; however, a medium cane such as No. 10 is the most convenient.
Tennis balls are best for the heads as they retain their shape after the holes are cut, but any ball of the same size (8 to 8 1/2-in. in circumference) will serve the purpose; used tennis balls can be bought very reasonably from sports shops.
Dolls to Dress
Patterns for the dolls’ clothes, which start with rectangles and circles, progress step by step; all other patterns, where possible, are symmetrical in shape, so that pieces such as sleeves fit either right or left sides. An actual size block is given for each doll, from which all further patterns can be drafted with the aid of the diagrams and text.
This part of the book introduces the first steps in dressmaking and pattern cutting, which processes, once familiar, will provide the key to whole wardrobes of clothes for these and other dolls.
Materials and Tools
Short lengths of cane for cores of limbs. Cellotape for binding. Cotton wadding to roll round cane. Felt squares to cover wadding.
Balls for heads. Flesh stockinette for covering heads (1/4-yd. is sufficient for all the dolls).
Wool for hair and knitted garments.
Scraps of blue, brown, scarlet and black felt for features.
Woolly toy twist for fur.