Any girl, regardless of his age, loves dolls. They are so beautiful and different: soft-rag, rubber, plastic. They can be worn in all sorts of clothes, comb and make hairstyles. Now the toys made are becoming increasingly popular, it becomes a real trend. Moreover, work on them will be fast, and most importantly - interesting and easy. The doll knitted with crochet will become a wonderful gift for any child.
You can give a flight of your fantasy, choosing, from which threads to make a doll (acrylic, cotton), what filler to choose, which color will be your creation. Behind this process, you can find out your creativity and potential.
Where to begin
First of all, it is necessary to determine what kind of doll want to see at the end of work. Now there are many ready-made schemes in which there is a complete and understandable description, manual and work schemes. Ready schemes can not be used, create something your own. Come up with clothes for her: sew or also tie the dress, skirt, hat, sundress, jumpsuit, shoes and any other accessory. Experienced needlewomen can make doll things like shoes or home slippers. Everything will depend here solely from your imagination.
What skills will need to create a doll:
- It is necessary to master the technique of knitting the ring amigurum, because it is precisely all the elements of small toys. Thanks to this technique, the bases of round parts are obtained without a hole. And it looks much more careful.
- It is necessary to know how to knit without lifting the loops of the spiral. When knitting with lifting loops will remain seam. When it can be hidden, for example, under the hat or hair of the doll, there is nothing terrible in this. But on the legs or handles of the seam does not look like professionally.
- Decide which eyes you want to make your doll. They can give the peculiarity and realism of your creation. You can buy ready-made eyes or beads in the store, it is suitable for novice needlewomen. But in a completely different way, they will look like a special technique or embroidered eye.
- If you decide to create a skeleton doll, you will additionally need to master the wire.
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And most importantly, it always follows to work with a desire and excellent mood.
Selection of yarn
First you need to choose threads. Today there are a very large variety of threads. Here are basic, suitable for knitting dolls:
- The most popular, which includes 45% polyacryl and 55% cotton. From this thread you can associate all the elements of clothes and the doll itself. It does not twist, does not stretch and soft enough;
- Mercerized 100% cotton. The thread is smooth, slightly flashes, keeps the form very well. The canvas turns out even and looks not rough. Mercerized cotton when creating clothes for dolls should be knit weaker, as it can get up with a stake. It will not be necessary for toy clothes;
- Cotton steich. In this yarn to cotton added 2% lira. It is convenient to knit it, but you should not fill a tight toy. The canvas will reach when stuffing and ultimately it will look neatly;
- There are also textured yarn. Cotton grass, yarn with wool in composition, yarn similar to a terry towel. It is important that for beginners it is not very suitable material, the loop is difficult to stretch and recalculate.
Knitting process
Consider a master class to create an unusual and original doll with pink hair. It will get a small size, so the yarn will spend quite a bit.
Materials will be needed:
- Threads (coral, pink, it is possible and orange, gray, green and beige - close to bodily);
- hook (1.5-2.5 mm);
- filler. One of the simplest wool and natural filler (fluff, wool), but they are already practically not used. The best option will be a synthetic and holofiber;
- eyes. You can use ready-made purchased, ordinary buttons or link yourself;
- Accessories. Use any at your discretion: hair rubber, hairpins, flowers, handbag.
On a note! This doll can be changed hairstyles (braid pigtails, making tails), which is an unconditional plus.
Let us turn to the diagram and the description of the knitting doll at home with your own hands.
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First, the head is touched for a doll.
Then the body and legs fit.
Then you knit hands.
Next, you should link the boots for the doll.
And the final stage will be knitting dresses and attaching hair to the head of the doll.
Work on the manufacture of your unique doll is completed! You can please your child with a new wonderful doll.