Girls' stockings are consumables, often just a small tear, but they are not suitable for wearing, and it feels like a pity to throw them away. In fact, torn stockings also have great uses, and they can be used to turn waste into treasure! Handmade DIY experts use torn stockings to DIY cleverly, and combine them with handmade fabrics to create cute rag dolls. You can design the rag dolls expression and hairstyle as you like. It’s a very simple handmade craft. Please refer to the illustrated tutorial below and enjoy the fun of handmade crafts.
Materials for making rag doll:
Adhesive cloth, torn stockings, pins, scissors, wool, cotton, hot melt glue.
Handmade rag dolls:
1. Take out the discarded stockings and sew on a circular outline.
2. Stuff cotton into the stockings.
3. Sew the stockings together.
4. Cut off the excess stockings on the head.
5. Place your head on the adhesive cloth to compare the size, and cut out 2 pieces of clothing fabric that are symmetrical to the size of your head on the adhesive cloth.
6. Cut out two pieces of pants fabric.
7. Align and sew both pieces of clothing fabric. Remember not to sew the collar and hem.
8. The clothes are completed.
9. Sew letters on the clothes.
10. Sew the pants, leaving the waistband of the pants unsewed for now.
11. Stuff cotton into clothes and pants.
12. Sew the upper body and lower body.
13. The first prototype appears.
14. Find some small colored cotton and roll them into a ball with a sharp instrument.
15. Add some hot melt glue to the inside of the sleeve, and poke the cotton into it with a sharp instrument.
16. The second prototype appears.
17. Use a pen to draw expressions on the head.
18. Sew the needle and thread at the marked place.
19. The third prototype appears.
20. Tie the wool into a twist shape.
21. While applying hot melt glue, put your hair up.
22. The release is completed.
23. Finally, sew the head and body.
You can design your hair style as you like, including afro, student hair, and other indescribable hair styles. If you find it too troublesome to style your hair, you can use the remaining fabric to make a triangular cone hat and glue it on like the blue doll in the lower right corner.
