Every fashionable doll should have at least three pairs of shoes in her wardrobe: sports, dressy and casual. To provide your favorite doll with such a dowry, you will have to carefully look for shoes in specialized departments of toy stores or make them yourself.
Be careful: making doll shoes can be so interesting that there is a risk of getting seriously carried away by it. Then the doll will have more shoes than Sarah Jessica Parker herself!
How to sew shoes for a doll with your own hands
Sewing shoes for a doll yourself is not so difficult. However, the smaller the doll’s leg, the more elaborate the work ahead. For beginning needlewomen, it is better to start with a larger size. Later, having filled your hand a little, you can start working on more complex and miniature shoes.
You can make shoes for a doll from various materials available at hand:
- leather or leatherette;
- felt or foamiran;
- denim or other thick fabric;
- papier-mâché or polymer clay;
- beads, wood, ribbons, elastic bands and more.
We sew leather doll shoes
For large dolls, baby dolls or soft toys, it is quite easy to sew shoes from leather or its substitute. You don't need any special tools or skills for this. The main role in creating shoes is played by accuracy of measurements and accuracy of execution.
Tools and materials
To create shoes one of the options you will need:
- pattern;
- a piece of leather or leatherette;
- rubber or foamiran 2 mm thick for the sole;
- thick cardboard for the insole;
- two small buttons or beads;
- scissors;
- pencil;
- thread, needle;
- transparent glue “Moment Gel”.
In this case, glue will be used to connect the parts. However, if desired, they can be sewn with threads.
The sole can be made from the same material as the upper of the shoe.
Having prepared everything you need, you can start making shoes.
Shoe pattern
The shoe pattern looks like this:
However, before transferring it to the material, it is necessary to adjust the dimensions to the doll for which the shoes are being made. To do this, measure the length and width of her foot. An easier way is to place your foot on the paper and trace it. You will get an insole. The sizes of the remaining parts can be selected by cutting them out of paper and attaching them to the doll’s leg.
Having adjusted the pattern to the required dimensions, you can proceed to working with materials.
Description of work stages
Shoes for a doll are made in several stages:
1. Transfer onto the material all the pattern pieces and cut them out. Cut out the insole from cardboard. It should be noted that at the toe and heel parts, zigzag allowances of 0.5-0.8 cm are made along the line of attachment to the insole.
2. Mark the middle of the insole and toe detail.
3. Combine marks on parts.
4. Glue zigzag the central teeth to the insole, bending them under it.
5. Combine the edges of the insole and toe are on one side.
6.Glue teeth on one side.
7. Likewise glue on the other side.
8. Attach back piece to the insole, aligning the middles.
9. Glue in the same way as the toe, starting from the middle.
10. For To level the level, glue a strip of leather into the center.
11. Attach the future shoe to the material from which the sole will be made, trace it along the contour.
12. Cut sole.
13. Glue the sole to the insole, pressing tightly.
14. Check edges, if necessary, glue them.
15. In place Sew a button or bead onto the fasteners.
16. From the inside On the sides, cover the place where the fastener is sewn with a piece of leather.
17. After When trying on shoes, make a hole for the fastener.
How to make shoes for Barbie
Barbie doll is such a fashionista! Her wardrobe should definitely have the most stylish and original shoes. And you don't have to buy them at all. You can make shoes for Barbie with your own hands in various ways:
- mold from polymer clay, and bake to secure the shape;
- weave from beads;
- glue from napkins and newsprint - papier-mâché;
- carve from wood;
- sew from pieces of fabric, satin ribbons, felt, thin leather;
- weave from rubber bands.
The main difficulty in making shoes for Barbie is that they must have heels or wedges. To give the sole the desired bend, use bent cardboard or paper glued in several layers. However, a more reliable method is shoes with a clip.
This option is worth considering in more detail.
Materials and tools
To create shoes on a paper clip you will need:
- thick paper;
- two paper clips;
- pliers;
- bench knife;
- scissors;
- pencil;
- paper glue;
- glue “Moment Crystal”;
- wooden sticks (matches, toothpicks);
- wooden ruler;
- pieces of fabric, thin ribbon;
- small thin rubber bands;
- sole material (thin leather or foamiran);
- paints.
Barbie has a small leg, so there's some real jewelry work to be done. It's worth being patient. You may also need wet and dry wipes to keep your hands clean.
Description of work stages
Shoes are made as follows:
1. Circle doll's foot on paper, holding the pencil strictly vertically. You need at least two of these insoles for each foot. If the paper is not thick enough, then it is better to increase the number of insoles to 4-6 for each leg. Mark the bending point on each.
2. Cut “insoles” and bend each along the marked line.
3. With use pliers to “bite off” the excess from the paper clips. Depending on their size, this may be an internal or external coil.
4. A little narrow the clip on the heel side.
5. Attach paperclip to the “insole” and bend it. In this case, the paper trail should protrude slightly beyond the paper clip on all sides.
6. Glue two traces, putting a paper clip inside. If necessary, glue the remaining paper blanks on top and bottom.
7. Make fitting. At this stage, the insole can be adjusted in terms of curve or size if it turns out to be slightly large. For shoes to look good on a doll's foot, they must be exactly the right size.
8. Tighten fabric insole. To do this, outline its outline on the fabric and cut it out with a zigzag allowance.
9. Glue fabric to the insole. First - from above, then - from below, carefully straightening the teeth. In this case, you need to ensure that no bubbles or folds form along the top.
10. Attach ready insole for the foot. Wrap it with tape, trim off the excess and glue it with Moment glue on the underside of the insole.
11. Sew to another piece of tape an elastic band.
12. Put on Place the resulting parts onto the doll and glue them together.
13. Draw, cut and sand two toe platforms from a wooden ruler.
14. Glue platforms to the insole.
15. Circle along the contour of the sole material, taking into account wooden inserts.
16. Cut sole and glue to the shoe.
17. To create heel, first you need to outline the curve of the sole on a piece of paper.
18. Complete the drawing heel and mark it on a wooden stick.
19. Cut from a stick and polish the heels, making them straight or slightly tapered downward.
20. Glue heels to shoes with Moment glue.
Before gluing, all parts of the sole can be painted black. And you will get very elegant and stylish shoes for fashionista Barbie.
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