Dolls from tights with their own hands: step-by-step instruction on creating a fairy-tale character

What, after all, the universal thing - women's pantyhose! Even after the end of their wearing, you can find their use in another matter. Earlier in old pantyhose we kept onions and garlic, hanging them on the balconies, today we offer you a master class on creating dolls from pantyhose with your own hands, the step-by-step instruction of which will be described below.

Gerda from pantyhose

We will sew Gerda - the heroine of Andersen's famous fairytale "The Snow Queen".Her height is 62 centimeters. Thanks to detailed instructions from the photo, creating such a doll will not be difficult even for beginners.

It will need:

- Old tights of high density( bodily);

- Small children's kolgotochki;

- Cotton fabric( solid);

- Material for making puppet hair;

- Eyes;

- Synthepon for packing;

- Wire for the frame - 2 meters;

- Cardboard, paper and cloth for shoe dolls;

- Colors acrylic and brush;

- Cloth and lace for tailoring;

- Threads, needles and scissors.

From this we will do doll hair:

So, the master class of dolls from pantyhose with their own hands.

We always start to sew a doll from the head.

We decorate the face, apply the sintepon to the occipital part and sew it with a patch to seal the head.

A wire loop is sewn around the patch and fixed with a glue gun.

Next, we construct a skeleton of dolls made of wire.

We make the legs and feet, fix them with a thin wire.

We wind on the resulting legs of sintepon strips, on the ankle area you need to soak more tightly.

For the second leg we do everything the same.

We sew panties for a doll made of cotton fabric, which is available. You can use children's tights, cutting them along in half.

The lower part of the panties is not sewn now, after it needs to be tightened and sewn to the foot along with pantyhose.
The upper part of the trunk of the doll is also wrapped in sintepon. Having given it a shape, we embroider with flesh-colored knitwear.

With the trunk finished, now do the handles. Each finger is made from five wadding sticks, commensurate with each other.

In each piece of the rod, a wire that has been freed from the upper insulation layer must be inserted. This is necessary for the doll's fingers to bend.

All the resulting fingers are gathered into the palm of your hand, twisted around your wrist, and wrapped around the synthepone where necessary, creating volume. We attach the hand of tape to one more piece of wire - this will be the shoulder and forearm. The formed hand is attached to the trunk. We do all the same for the second hand.

Make a pattern for the doll handle on paper and cut out with a 2 mm allowance.

The resulting pattern is placed on pantyhose, top and bottom. Thus, we will have two layers of capron between two layers of paper. Circle, cut and stitch the needle for knitwear.

Get this way:

With the help of cotton buds, we turn the gloves on the handle, carefully, so as not to tear.

Put the glove on your arm.

Now we collect the head, hands and torso.

Do not forget to tighten your neck with a sintepon. Then tighten it with a piece of capron, and sew to the head.

From below, we also connect the neck with the trunk.

Dress up the doll

It's the turn of the dress for the doll. We sew a dress from our fabric. To do this, fold it in half, cut out the dress with sleeves, sew the lace to the bottom and to the sleeves, then grind the side seams. At the neck we collect the fabric with a thread, put on the dress on the doll and fix it.

From a piece of lace we sew a collar, we collect it on a string and fasten around a neck.

Next shoit shoes for the doll. For them you can use velor. Cut out the insole from the cardboard and sew it into the shoes.

Pattern for shoes:

Now that all the garments are made, it remains to paint the doll and make her hair. Make your makeup to your liking or watch a video, how to make make-up for dolls, on the Internet.

Acrylic paints color the lips and apply a blush.

Here's a pretty doll turned out.

With the help of old pantyhose, it is possible to create not only such dolls, but also other crafts. All sorts of characters of fairy tales, animals, as well as cute poiki are obtained from ordinary capron.

Video tutorials for beginners

Here is a housekeeper:

The Snow Maiden( in two parts):

Another householder:

And just a collection of interesting ideas: