This little lady started off in a Christmas dress, then I changed her into a red outfit with hearts.
I made her dress and bloomers from an old simplicity pattern I already had. I had gone to Hobby Lobby when my wife and I visited Texas and I found a treasure trove of printed felt squares :D I bought myself several and used one of them to make these spotty felt shoes with velcro fasteners and a pink felt heart applique. I also made her a small red felt purse with a ribbon for a strap and I made her red hair bows. All the felt heart appliques were made with my trusty BIGkick machine :)
Bella
Bella's bows, purse and Mary Janes :)
These little ladies I made for some ladies who custom ordered them. Evie was first and when I posted her on my FB page a second lady wanted one that looked like Evie doll as much as possible. So I made Madison :) They have blue eyes and lovely blond hair with pink bows. I love making hair bows. There is this awesome site where they have loads of tutorials for hair bows. Here is the link for that site The Ribbon Retreat. I made these little girls felt shoes and tights and dungaree dresses :) The tights were made from size 0-3 month baby tights. I just resized them. For the dress I just made a pattern but here is a link for a good one The Silver Penny. It's one for pants but you can just make a skirt instead.
Evie
Madison
This is Zoey and I loved her hair :) I made her tutu just as colorful. I used tulle in all the colors they sold at the fabric store :) Here is a link on how to make a no sew tutu again :) sewmccool. She is a colorful ballerina and a couple years ago became someone's Christmas present.
Zoey
A couple of years ago I made a Christmas fairy named Holly. She was fun to make. I made her a Christmasy tutu in red, green and white with a Christmasy bow in front. I googled holly leaves to make a template to cut holly leaves out of felt to put on her bows, shoes and outfit hence her name being Holly :D I loved her wings. The felt they are made from was a good find in good old Banburys Store. Her bows I made with the help of this tutorial I found here sisters suitcase blog. They have a very good picture tutorial there and the template too :)
Holly
Holly's wings,Mary Janes and bows
Isabella was one of the first dolls I made with my own pattern. I loved her hair. The yarn I chose for her hair was all crocheted into a long block. I don't even remember what I was trying to make with it. When I undid the block to make Isabella's hair it was all nice and curly. It came out very lovely :) I made a purple bow for the front of her tutu and I put purple gems on the tutu as well. For this doll I chose to try and make fingers and toes. I found a tutorial here Doing Without. I don't have any pictures of her toes but you can see her fingers in the picture below. I've not made fingers and toes on any of my other dolls. I don't really know why. I might do that next time I make one of these dolls.
Isabella
I'll share some more dolls with yall in another post. If you are making your own dolls I hope it is as fun for you as it is for me :)
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