How to make a rag doll
Step one: Assemble the necessary supplies
Start by assembling the essential materials. Making a rag doll requires a lot of stuff like yarn, chopsticks, skin-toned thread, needle, wool batting, embroidery floss, pins, doll template, 12 by 16 inches of washable fabric, 12-inch cotton jersey squares and
Step two: Cut the fabric
start by making the body. Fold the washable material with the right sides facing your side. Make sure one end is touching the other end. place the doll pattern on the fabric and mark spotted lines on the shoulders and cut the fabric. Make sure it doesn’t touch the shoulders. Cut the 12-inch cotton jersey square for the head, hands and legs.
Step three: Stitch the fabric
In order to make a body, start by stitching at the bottom leg. Make sure it’s at the exterior edge. Stitch up one side to the end of one arm. Make sure you leave an inch for the joint. Fold the 12-inch jersey half lengthways and pin the sides for the head and start stitching. Make sure you cut the extra fabric.
Step four: Roll flapping
Cut the wool batting about 3 by 6 inches and make it into a star shape. 879
Spool another flapping into the 3-inch orb and place it in the mid of the star shape flapping. Using chopsticks, insert the flapping inside to form the head. Ensure that the ball is steady and even.
Step five: make the feet, hands, and head
Tie some skin-colored thread around the ball and sew. Make a ball for the legs and hands and tie a skin colored thread also.
Step six: stuff the body
Stuff the body with wool batting and use gathering stitch to tighten the neck. Make sure the body is not firmly stuff. Supplement the head into the neck and join it with the body. Make sure you duple the length of the thread for the stitch to be sturdy.
Step seven: Make the hair, eyes, and mouth
Stitch the yarn in a circle. Make sure you make a tiny fixative stitch at the end of each circlet to make it firm. Use the needle and embroidery floss for the eyes and mouth. Insert it at the end of the head and out where you want the eyes and mouth to be. Make sure the spine end at the back of the head and lump the thread to plug the eyes and mouth.
Step eight: Texture the hair
Trim the circlets on the head to style the hair. Ensure that they are cottony and cut the way you want it to look. Make sure you massage the face to give it a nice shape. 879