subject: Learn How To Sew Doll Clothes With Ease [print this page] Learn "tricks of the trade" which will help you in your journey of making doll clothes.
Making Dolly's garments can be a delightful and educational experience if it's on your own or instructing a child close to your heart how to sew doll clothes. There are many helpful ideas that I would love to share with you that I have discovered to be a benefit for myself as well as students I've had the joy of instructing. Sewing can be fun or stressful but if you know a number of the "tricks of the trade" before you begin, making doll clothes will always be fun.
Purchasing rubber matting of any size or color and putting it underneath the foot pedal of your sewing machine won't only deminish the noise, but will also stop the foot pedal from "running away" from your child or you. Children often get told to hurry up as it comes to completing a project, but with making doll clothes it is much better to not be in a hurry. By placing a piece of foam between the base and foot pedal lever one will be assiting your young person to remember that faster is not always better.
Even though you may like to make a little girl and dolly matching outfits, at times it's less discouraging to improvise when it comes to the doll's clothing. Although there are craft stores and web sites that market little buttons designed just for dolly outfits it could be a much unneeded added frustration to attempt to create dolly's garment exactly like your youngster's. By using "Velcro", hook and eye, or simple small sized snaps, for the fastenings on dolly's dresses or pants and shirts you can instantly make the job easier and more enjoyable. The great thing with this is that you can hand sew little buttons to the outside, which gives the button look to dolly's wardrobe, but removing the stress of little tiny button holes and challenging finger proficiency for small hands.
Wonder Tape is great! One can buy Wonder Tape at most any place that sells sewing or craft goods and I highly suggest you invest in some. If it is a seam, pocket, zipper, or just slick fabric, this Wonder Tape will keep the fabric in position while you continue sewing. The tape simply washes out, and will not gum up your machine needle.
Your friends will be amazed at how beautifully you sewed an article they may have discovered to be really hard. That's an opportunity when you can share how to sew doll clothes using the "tricks of the trade" with your friends.
