Sew a Tilda Bride doll with your own hands: pattern, diagrams and description

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The Tilda Bride doll will be an excellent personalized addition to the main wedding gift for your daughter, sister or friend. Such cute dolls will be an excellent decoration for a cozy interior and will serve as a kind of amulet. These dolls are relatively easy to make and are often the first thing beginners try.

What Tilda dolls look like and what they are like

“Tildes” are homemade rag dolls made from natural materials and fabrics dyed with natural dyes. Such specimens have deliberately undeveloped faces, in which the personalized features of the recipient are more likely to be guessed. But one detail remains unchanged - a bright blush. Tilda dolls can be in the form of people or animals with anthropomorphic features. These interior dwellers most often have exaggerated body proportions: arms and legs are much thinner and longer than standard, and a large nose stands out on a small head.Among the subspecies of Tilda, made by hand, the most popular dolls are Tilda the bride and Tilda the groom. They are often sewn together at the arms and given to newlyweds as a symbol of the strength of their marriage.

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The history of homemade Tilda dolls

The very concept of creating a rag doll is far from new: in Russia at one time large-legged Snowball dolls were popular, in Scotland many order miniature dolls made by local craftsman Susan Woolcott, in Korea children play with Rag-nesses - a rag analogue of Barbie with rich outfits and complex hairstyles. In almost every country there is such a homemade doll with special features. The heroine of this article was created in Norway by designer Tonya Finanger and became everyone's favorite. Her image is considered the standard of Scandinavian hygge: natural light fabrics, soft features and cozy suits. It is noteworthy that the whole story of Tilda began with two books for children published in 1999: “Tilda and Christmas” and “Tilda Easter” were associated with a certain image, but later other characters began to appear, made in the style of Tilda and receiving her name. Gradually, Tilda turned from an ordinary toy into an interior decoration and even began to be identified with her style. These simple dolls appealed to ordinary people and professional seamstresses due to the relative simplicity of execution and the opportunity to experiment with images and the deceptive primitiveness of Tilda.

Craftswomen recommend abandoning the sewing machine and making a Tilda the Bride doll with your own hands. So, according to many, it looks neater.

In order to sew a Tilda bride, you will need:

• A piece of pastel colored fabric.It is important that the material is natural; this is included in the concept of the doll, so you should give preference to cotton, linen or wool fabric. It is believed that Tilda is a tanned girl, so if you are sewing an abstract bride and not a wedding gift, you can follow this tradition and paint Tilda’s body in the desired shade using tea leaves.
• A piece of lace for a veil.
• Fabric for the festive dress of the bride Tilda doll.
• Multi-colored threads.
• Yarn for hair.
• Two black matte beads (you can use them to make doll eyes).
• Sintepon or holofiber.
• Optionally, you can use buckwheat to weight Tilda’s body.

In order to get the canonical Tilda the Bride doll, it is worth considering one more important difference between it and other toys. If the conventional Barbie focused children's attention on the cold beauty and impeccability of the doll, then the Tilda the Bride doll, made by hand, forced its creators to be smart and create a special character or convey the features of a friend with a few stitches. After all, for the most part, all Tilda Bride dolls made by hand are doll versions of real brides.

Step-by-step plan for creating a Tilda Bride doll

1. Transfer the pattern presented in the article to all fabrics and cut them out, retreating from the edge 0.5-1 cm.
2. Connect all the parts to get ready-made parts of Tilda’s body. We recommend sewing everything by hand using small stitches.
3. Stuff the body parts of the Tilda bride doll with padding polyester or holofiber. Please note that the arms and legs do not need to be stuffed tightly at the elbows and knees: the arms and legs should bend.
4. Connect all parts of the dress and decorate it with the decor you have provided. These can be ribbons, matte beads or artificial pearls.Try to avoid rhinestones and bright jewelry, as Tilda should not be glamorous.
5. Sew a veil or wedding veil from a piece of lace. Don't forget to trim the edges of the fabric so they don't fray. They can be decorated with either regular thread or soft beads that match the color of the dress.
6. The face of the Tilda bride doll is shaped last. The eyes can be made from black matte beads or simply tied in French knots using black yarn. As an alternative, you can paint them with acrylic paints, which can also be used to add the signature blush of the Tilda Bride doll.
7. Tilda's hair is most often made from yarn, but if you have enough patience and experience, you can use silk threads to add realism to the look.