We can use the method of renovating old items to make beautiful handmade fabrics. Some handmade fabrics are very practical, adding color to our daily lives and adding a lot of fun at the same time. Below, the editor of the production department has compiled a very cute little puppet making tutorial for you. It is a tutorial on remaking an old glove. The shape and structure produced in this way is a very cute cartoon doll. You can see it from the manual illustration tutorial below. When it comes to its specific production method, the first step is to design and plan each part of the glove. Let’s learn how to make cute cartoon dolls using cloth gloves!
Illustration of making cartoon dolls transformed from cloth gloves
- First, use the gloves to transform the parts of the puppet needed to be turned over. As shown in the picture (red).
- Use a sewing machine to sew the puppets feet and body (red thread). Sew together with the index finger and index finger of the glove.
- After cutting like this, flip it back.
- Put stuffing into the legs. Be careful not to overfill the red part.
- Sew around the circumference of the glove wrist (yellow threaded part). Such as the red part
- Sew tightly, as shown in the picture below.
- Make the index and ring fingers into arms, leaving ears and return holes (blue lines). Next, use your sewing machine to sew the extensions of your index and ring fingers (red thread).
- Cut along the white line for the face and along the yellow line for the legs.
- Return the face from the return opening to the "front" and temporarily secure it with a rubber band.
- Take out the ear part. Same on the other side.
- Cut off the extra portion of the return port that the rubber band binds, place it inside and sew the return port shut. This can also be hidden with hair.
- Insert your index finger and ring finger into the mouth of the stuffing and sew.
- Sew the upper part of the doll 1cm away from the edge, as followsAs shown in the figure.
- Raise the arms and sew the armpits shut.
- Sew the other side the same way.
- Sew the face and torso together.
- Use the remaining fabric to make a ball for the puppet’s nose.
- Sew its "nose" onto the face.
- Then make a toe like in the photo.
- Sew the toes together.
- In this way, the doll body made of gloves is completed. Use cloth gloves to transform into cute cartoonsThis is where the illustrations on how to make dolls are introduced to you. Friends who like it, feel free to give it a try!
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