Enjoy Making Cloth Dolls

Cloth Dolls

A lot of kids love making and playing with cloth dolls.This may seem a little strange to some people, but in my family both the boys and the girls loved cloth dolls. You see, my mother was an expert in making cloth dolls. She could make anything from rag dolls, well-dressed china dolls, handmade wooden ones, you name it and she could make it. She could make the perfect clothes for American girl dolls, dressing them up in such fancy outfits that you would practically envy them. Although I was the only one in my friend circle who had the cloth doll hobby and even though I sometimes got made fun of over it, nevertheless I have grown to treasure my toy dolls. Even today I sew doll clothes in my spare time, and collect cloth dolls.

The thing that I like most is making clothes for my dolls. I love sewing clothes for 18 inch dolls. You see, in general I love making clothes, but it can often be an involved and time-consuming process. The great thing about learning how to make doll clothes is that it is such an easy way to create mock ups of full-size costumes. Although cloth dolls don't show you how the outfits would look on you, they do provide you a way to cheaply and easily play with your imagination and find out what types of clothing might be worth further investigation.

You see, our cloth dolls were very dear to us. We were always very careful with them because did not want anything to happen to them. After all, our mother had taken so much trouble to make them for us, and we deeply loved the work she did.and because of that childhood habit, I still have a lot of respect for my cloth dolls. My Madame Alexander dolls, for example, never leave their display cases. They are too valuable, too perfectly made, and too fragile. The cloth dolls that I actually play with are of a much lesser quality but I still love them all.

If you have ever wanted to learn to make cloth dolls, you can easily learn because is a lot simpler than you might think. There are all kinds of do-it-yourself guides available, so you can easily find out the information that you need. Even if your first few cloth dolls do not look very good, keep trying and after a little practise you will become good at it and believe me, you will have a lot of fun doing it.

Making cloth dolls is a very worthwhile hobby to develop because it is not too expensive and you can do it almost anywhere and who knows, one day you could even start a business in making and selling cloth dolls.