Doll Booties

Doll Booties

Get Started Making Rosette

To get started making a rosette, you will need to run a suture, sewing it so that it stitches to crisscross the length of the ribbon. Pull up until it starts to meets. After you bind the ends so that it materializes into a sphere, stitch the two ends together.

Note: The closer you sew your ends, the smaller your rosette will form and contrasting if you sew at a distance.

How to Gather your Ribbons

Gathered fabric is known as Shirr. If you intend to shirr ribbons, you will need to start by, using your hands, i.e. needle and thread and stitching a line along the edges of your ribbon and then pulling up to complete the process. You can also run a line of stitching at the center of your ribbon and then pull up the thread to bunch.

How to Shell your edges:

If you intend to add designs around the hems, sleeve edge and neck edges, you can use the shell methods. Instead of starting on the right side of your fabric, start on the opposite side and fold it onto the other side of the hem. At the folded section, stitch around three times pulling the needle so that it goes beneath the fabric. You should be on the right angle at this time, which you can continue by stitching back to the edges of your folded region. The shell design is completed once you pull your thread in tightly and re-stitch to create a tight fold. You can continue stitching until you have your desired pattern.

Doll rosettes and dresses are fun to make. If you haven't already chosen your fabric to make your doll dress, skip this process. You cannot complete the process until you have designed your dress. On the other hand, if you are ready to start making, yet another doll dress choose your fabric. You may enjoy mixing colors, patterns, etc, yet make sure that the fabric is put together coordinately. When you choose your pattern, it is wise to measure your doll first. You want to purchase fabric that will produce a dress, fitting to your dolls figure.

The size of the doll is the most important measurement you want to consider when choosing fabric. If you have a large doll, the smaller or medium patterns will work, providing you take the liberty to follow steps in stitching. When you choose your fabrics, also consider shoes, etc. The shoes designed for baby dolls, including the booties. If you have a reproductive doll, choose fashionable shoes. Once you select your shoes, pick socks that coordinate. You may also want to add a hat.

How to choose hats:

Hats include straw hats, bonnets, rush bonnets, hoop bonnets, and more. When choosing your hat work in coordination with your shoes, socks, fabric, etc. In addition to hats, you may want to consider belts for your doll.

How to choose belts:

Belts include the Red Sashes', which are cotton belts that are a good match for Nahuala, Huipils, such as Todos Santos, etc. Multi-color belts include the stripes. Totonicapán belts are handlooms, which come in a variety of styles. Zunil is a hand crafted loom, which has many colorful bold designs, as well as figures.

In addition to hats, shoes, socks, belts, etc, you can also find matching purses, bags, jewelry, shawls, hammocks, bedspreads, and more. Matching furniture is also available, as well as dolls that mate with your own doll. Carrying clothes and toys are available online as well, which you may want to create a fancy station for your dolls platform.

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Help interpret crochet pattern?

I'm attempting to make this hat for an American Girl doll:

http://cobblerscabin.wordpress.com/happy-hookin/ag-floral-motif-hat-free-pattern/#comment-1937

I’m no crochet expert, but I've made baby hats and booties. I’m having trouble interpreting the very first step of this pattern! When it says “ch 2 in 5th chain from hook” – what does that mean? How do I get into the 5th chain to chain 2?? And when it says 5th from hook, does that make it the 1st chain on my foundation chain?

Thanks for the link - let's go back to the beginning -- When you count chains - don't count the loop on the hook - the first loop is next to the hook - you are counting backwards towards where the chain began.

The instructions are: Rnd. 1: ch 5, *dc, ch 2 in 5th ch from hook*, repeat 5 times, join with sl st to 3rd ch of beginning ch 5 ...do not turn in this or following rnds.. 6-ch 2 sp

So begin with chain 5. Start a pattern * and double crochet and then chain 2 in the first chain loop - a long stitch -- repeat the long stitch 5 times and then join with a slip stitch to the third chain in the first chain you made. When you complete the repeats, it looks like a wagon wheel……..chain 5 (this counts as your very first dc, ch 2), then work a dc, ch 2 in the very first chain of the chain 5, then dc, chain 2 in the very same 1st ch…..do this until you have a total of 6-ch 2 spaces…….join in the 3rd ch of the very first ch 5.

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