The craftsmanship of making dolls is a real art that allows the master to bring to life any idea and any image in the guise of an author's handmade doll. If you want to start making dolls, first of all learn how to make a doll frame correctly, which will become the basis for the torso of your figurine. To create a frame, draw a life-size silhouette of a doll on a piece of paper, taking into account all the proportions.
Instructions
Step 1
For the frame, prepare a wire and a soft padding polyester. On the diagram of the body of the doll, drawn on paper, put the diagram of the frame, and then make it out of stiff wire. Reinforce the doll's shoulder girdle and pelvic girdle with two additional layers of wire.
Step 2
Cut the padding polyester canvas into narrow strips no more than 5 cm wide and start wrapping the wire frame in a spiral. Continue wrapping the wire with padding polyester until the doll's figure acquires volume. In some places, the frame needs to be made less voluminous, and in some more voluminous.
Step 3
The shape of the doll's body also depends on whether it is female or male. Having typed the required volume with strips of padding polyester, attach the assembled frame to the diagram and check how much it corresponds to it. Do not fill your legs and arms with padding polyester to the full length - you will sculpt your hands and feet from polymer plastic.
Step 4
Check if you have correctly built up the relief of the body by winding additional strips of padding polyester - if some fragments are missing, sew additional pieces of padding polyester with a thread and a needle, forming the most protruding parts of the doll's body.
Step 5
Likewise, with the help of a thread and a needle, you can tighten some parts of the frame, making visible indentations and depressions in the figure. Wrap as much padding polyester as possible on the neck area so that the head can be securely attached to the frame.
Step 6
Having fully worked out the frame, start covering the body. Wrap the padding polyester body with gauze bandage. Place a stretch knit in the desired color over the frame and secure with tailor's pins at the side seams.
Step 7
First cut out the front of the sleeveless doll's torso and then the back. Sew them along the side lines with a blind seam right on the body of the doll. Cover the neck with knitwear and sew. Then cut out the sleeves separately and sew them onto the frame. Leave small knit allowances on your arms and legs to secure the plastic body parts.
