New life of an old thing, or Dolls own hands from socks

A toy made by the hands of a mother or grandmother will always be better for the baby. All the warmth, love and care, invested by the master in her making, will necessarily be passed on to the child. Therefore, all young mothers we recommend making soft toys for children with their own hands. This lesson has many advantages. First, you choose materials for creativity, and we are sure that for your beloved child you will take only natural and safe fabrics and fillers. Secondly, it is profitable for money. For the money that is worth a toy factory, you can buy materials for making two or three crafts. We convinced you? Then let's get down to business. Right now you will learn how the dolls are sewn with their own hands from socks. This is an interesting and fairly simple technique for creating toys. As a result of the work, you will receive a cute soft puppet and a doll for a home theater.

A doll with a sock. With your hands sew a doll

For work you need these materials:

• sock;
• A piece of cloth 10x10 cm;
• needle with thread;
• scissors;
• Cotton wool;
• Beads or buttons 2 pieces;
• Thin satin ribbon.

How to make a doll from a sock? Follow the instructions below.

1. Spread the nosochek on the table. Cut it into three parts to get the individual parts: from the fingers to the beginning of the heel (trunk), the heel itself (it will not be used further in the work) and an elastic band (a puppy's cap).
2. On the first part, make a markup to form the handles and legs of the future dolls. To do this, draw a straight line in the middle of the detail from the bottom upwards by 5 centimeters. This will be a spacer for the decoration of the legs. From the top of the part down, draw two parallel lines of 4 centimeters, receding from the left and right edges in centimeters. It's you who marked the pens.
3. Fill the body part with cotton and sew stitches along all the lines. You will see how the harvest gets the shape of the pupa's body. The upper hole is sewed and pulled.
4. From a cloth flap, cut a circle, sew it with stitches along the edge and pull it together. In the hole, put the filler, tighten the thread tightly and secure it. Perform eyes with buttons or beads.
5. Sew the head of the puppet to the calf.
6. From the top of the sock (elastic), make a hat. To do this, wrap one edge with a ribbon and secure it.
7. Put on the hat on the doll. Place the attachment of the head to the trunk with a ribbon.

Pups is ready to play with your baby. Such dolls with their own hands from socks can perform independently even a child who is just learning to keep a needle in his hands. Under your sensitive guidance, the baby-daddy will make a cute toy that will surely become your favorite.

Theatrical dolls. We'll sew the soft "actors" with our hands from socks

For the making of puppet show characters, you need socks of different colors and textures, buttons, cardboard, glue, decorative elements.

From the cardboard, cut the oval over the width of the sock. Fold this part in half. Sock the sock on the wrong side and glue it into the "nose" oval. When the product dries, carefully unscrew it. You got the head of the hero with the mouth. Next, glue or sew the eye-buttons, tongue, nose, ears from any fabric (felt, knitwear, cotton). That's all. A beautiful toy-glove for the puppet theater is ready.

We hope that the information presented in this article inspired you and very soon new dolls will appear in your house, made with your own hands. I wish you successes, beautiful toys and good mood!