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How to Make Yarn and Felt Folks

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Sister_Diane Diane Gilleland, contributor
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You can give these charming dolls as gifts, hang them on your tree, use them to decorate a package, or let them inhabit the holiday village on your mantel.
This design starts with a basic yarn doll, and then adds lots of embellishments.
Were offering a free downloadable sheet of clothing patterns to dress up your dolls!
You can give these charming dolls as gifts, hang them on your tree, use them to decorate a package, or let them inhabit the holiday village on your mantel.

You can give these charming dolls as gifts, hang them on your tree, use them to decorate a package, or let them inhabit the holiday village on your mantel.

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Trim those bangs to about 1/2 inch in length. Then, put a little glue on the forehead and press the bangs gently into it. This helps them lie flat against the face—and it covers up the edges of the felt.

Repeat this process on the sides and back of the doll's head: Apply a little glue to the head, and gently press the hair into it.

From there, you can give your doll any hairstyle you like! Cut it short, make braids, make a ponytail, make pigails—this part is highly addictive. Take a look at the sample dolls at the top of this post for some ideas.


 Draw on a face with fine-point markers.

When you have the hair as you like it, draw a simple face with fine-point Sharpies. (Or, if you're handy with embroidery, you could, of course, embroider a face for your doll. Just do the embroidery on the felt before you glue it to the head.)


 Download the clothing patterns. Pin to felt and cut out.

Dress Your Doll
The downloadable pattern sheet has lots of components to make interesting outfits for your dolls. Take a look at the sample dolls for inspiration, and here are a few tips:

• You can embellish the clothes with ribbon, rickrack, or embroidery. You can also sew on beads, buttons, or sequins. If you decide to embellish, it's easiest to do that before you attach the clothing to the doll.

• You can attach the clothing pieces to the doll with hot glue, or you can sew them together, using a tiny whipstitch. Just wrap the pieces around the body, overlap the edges, and sew or glue them to secure.


 The pattern pieces mix and match to create lots of doll outfits.

• If you make an outfit with sleeves or pant legs, attach these to the doll first, and then add one of the blouse pieces over them.

• The two blouse pieces and the collar piece are designed to be worn with the opening either in the front or back, giving you lots more design options.

• Feel free to alter these patterns any way you like! You can add a scalloped edge to the apron, for example, or cut a pinked edge into the pant legs.

 

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Comments (3)

alibalibee writes: Gorgeous Little dolls, they will make a wonderful 'children of the world' wreath. Thank you for sharing.
AliBB
Posted: 6:06 pm on December 12th
irey writes: My great granddaughters will love these little dolls
Posted: 10:49 am on December 1st
jpattyjack writes: I love your little dolls. My sister loves small things so I am going to make her some for Christmas.

Jackie
Posted: 11:54 am on November 29th
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