Noah’s Doll

One of the handmade gifts that I’ve been working on for Noah is this doll. Noah has about one stuffed monkey to his name, while Cami holds probably 10 stuffed animals or dolls in her room. While she does share pretty well with him most of the time, I thought it’d be nice if he had a few more of his very own. After making my t-shirt waldorf doll, I figured I could handle making two more for the kiddos. I bought my fabric from Weir Dolls and Crafts and they shipped pretty quickly. I bought way too much … I think I bought two yards. I followed a few of the  tutorials that I did before, and few different.

Here they are:
The Body: these photos on flickr
The Head: I followed this tutorial, but if I were to it again I would machine sew the back of the head like in this tutorial, and just hand-stitch the top. It would be a lot less time consuming.  However, still look at the first for more detailed photos of the rest.

For the Hair: The hair is really the most time consuming part. I knew I wanted it to look like Mandy’s, spiky and adorable. I learned a bit of crochet and followed this tutorial for stitching a chain to your doll’s head.  As you can see, I hand stitched the chain to the dolly’s head and then I used a crochet needle to loop the yarn through. After I looped it through, I pulled it tight and cut it. Here is a picture, I haven’t made his head full yet & I’m not sure how much more I’m going to do, because he looks pretty cute as is and all the stitching of the chain has been covered. I bought some handspun yarn of of etsy, which turned out to work really nice for this project: Now, I need to put together a little outfit (or buy one). I can’t wait to see the name Noah picks for his little guy!

Tagged as: DIY handmade, handmade holiday