Make your very own unique Fleur, a beautiful vintage style dress up rag doll. She wears stylish high topped button up boots and has a delightful wardrobe of two dresses, as well as a pinafore, bloomers and a shawl. Fleur is a posable doll, she will sit and can move her arms at shoulders and elbows and also bends her knees. Fleur doll is perfect for incorporating used fabrics from clothing that belonged to someone dear, and odds and ends of yarn and trims, to create a true heirloom, sure to be treasured for generations to come. The 89 page PDF has lots of colour photos (more than 150) and step by step instructions. All details are explained and every part is sectioned into easy to follow steps. You will be guided through the whole process, from sewing the doll, stuffing the body, embroidering the face, adding hair, to sewing a dress, pinafore, bloomers ,and tunic. The instructions also include how to knit your own lace trim to attach to the pinafore, as well as the lace shawl. The finished doll is 43 cm or 17 inches tall. This is a sewing pattern (downloadable PDF) and comes as two files.

Skill level is advanced beginners,– requiring basic sewing skills and equipment– the doll can be sewn entirely by hand if you prefer, or parts can be machine sewn.

Make a beautiful, one of a kind fabric doll with this highly versatile pattern, which you can easily customize.

I've made this tutorial quite detailed so that even a confident beginner can make give it a go. These dolls are great as a gift for all ages, as a toy, or as an art piece/decoration. Included: Doll Pattern (Full Size) Bloomers Pattern Dress Pattern Pinafore Pattern Tunic Pattern Knit Lace Trim Pattern Miniature Shawl Pattern

Materials Needed For doll body: 35 cm (14") of 115 cm (45") wide unbleached cotton calico (called muslin in US) fabric in a medium weight remnant of brown cotton broadcloth 22.5cm by 27.5cm (fat eighth 18" X 11") for boots matching colour sewing threads for body, boots and hair 60 cm (24") length of ribbon to match clothing, use as head band. Embroidery floss, black, dark brown, green, pink and white to embroider face One 50 g ball of DK weight yarn for hair, your choice of colour and fibre. approx.100g (3.5oz) of stuffing, toy filler water soluble marking pen small embroidery hoop 10 cm (4") diameter embroidery needle bodkin or tiny safety pin medium length dolls sewing needle for sewing hair to head turning tools ( long straight knitting needle or wooden spoon, as well as a skewer will do), this is also used for stuffing tweezers haemostat (optional) strong cardboard (A 4 size, 21 X 30 cm) (8 X12") for making hair wig printer paper A4 or US letter invisible tape or regular sticky for taping to light box or window and making hair wefts

Clothing: 30 cm of floral print light cotton fabric for dress 90 cm wide (36") 30 cm striped cotton fabric for pinafore 90 cm wide (36") 30 cm of fine cotton lawn floral fabric for Tunic dress 90 cm wide (36") remnant cotton broderie anglaise 20 cm X 40 cm or 8" by 16", for bloomers 50 cm (1/2 yard ) elastic 3mm wide (1/8") 22 cm (1/4 yard ) narrow stretch lace trim for tunic dress 12 mm wide (1/2") bias binding to match dress fabric or make your own 4 small buttons, two for dress and two for pinafore, 6 to 8 mm diameter (3/8 to1/4") 1m (1.1Yd) of narrow lace trim for pinafore, or make your own knitted lace(instructions are included) remnant of fingering weight yarn to knit shawl (20g) (420m to 100g)

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