DIY doll shoes

Today on the shelves of the store you can find a huge variety of dolls. These are kids and dolls, comparable in proportion to their little mistresses, depicting girls from two to seven years old, and adult Barbie young ladies, and fantasy dolls depicting magical creatures. You can create the same variety with your own hands. Doll making has long been a favorite pastime for many girls, because such a creation, created with their own hands, is able to please the hostess at any age. True, when creating dolls, craftswomen sometimes encounter a problem: how to make shoes for dolls with their own hands? In this article we will consider the most different options.

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Shoes for the doll. Master Class

In order to create shoes for the doll with your own hands, you first need to decide what it will be: shoes or sandals, high-heeled shoes or maybe skating shoes, sneakers or shoes? In fact, here the choice is limited only by your imagination. And of course, the image of the doll. You must admit that leather boots are better suited to hare-tilda than sandals, and a delicate doll in clothes with lace and frills should be put on light shoes, but knitted bears in sweaters and warm trousers can be made into boots.

Materials

Also, before deciding how to make shoes for dolls, it is worth choosing the right material. And it can be very different:

• Upper doll shoes, especially boots and boots, are usually made of thick materials. Leather, jeans, dermatin - they keep their shape well.

Important! You can use ordinary gabardine, but then it’s worth duplicating the details with non-woven to give rigidity.

• The question of what to make the sole for doll shoes from is solved simply. Cardboard from an old box from under your shoes may well cope with this task. Cork material, thick leather or leatherette are also great for these purposes. If you need to create a small heel on the sole, then in the nearest shoe shop you can buy a piece of polyurethane or rubber.
• If you decide that your creation will be in boots, then feel free to take pieces of fur and felt. This combination will give the effect of realism.
• DIY shoes for dolls with their own hands are usually made of bright materials with a small gloss. They are also better to duplicate non-woven. In addition to giving a beautiful shape, this will facilitate the process of creating shoes.
• The doll can be put on in booties or slippers. For these purposes, a synthetic material such as fleece is ideal. It is quite dense, does not require additional processing, as it does not crumble and looks very nice and neat on the leg.

When creating shoes for dolls with your own hands, you can not do without additional decorative elements, such as beads, ribbons, beads, rhinestones. They will be especially appropriate to look on shoes for dolls with their own hands. Well, for shoes, it’s worth preparing small eyelets and thin laces.

Instruments

Before you make shoes for the doll with your own hands, it is worth stocking up with the necessary tools:

• It is difficult to imagine this process without a thread and a needle, so they should be prepared for sure.
• Scissors are also included in this list. Moreover, both large ones - for cutting, and small ones - for cutting off excess fabric during sewing.
• Good glue will be your best assistant in the process of creating any shoe.
• It may well be worth stocking up with acrylics. They will be needed to tint some parts of the fabric.

In this list of tools for creating shoes for dolls with their own hands, it is worth including an apparatus for installing eyelets. Metal or plastic bushings perfectly strengthen the fabric if it is planned to sew shoes with laces, for example, shoes or sneakers.

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Patterns - the general principle

Surely, you know that all clothes are modeled on the basis of basic patterns. When designing patterns for shoes, the same principle is used. Therefore, let's take a closer look at the process of creating shoes for dolls with your own hands - patterns for beginners in stages. It starts with a drawing of the insole:

1. We take the body of your pupa, if it is already ready, or the blank of the leg, apply it to the cardboard and outline it.
2. After that, we draw up the front part. We draw either a sharp or oval toe.
3. Now give the final form. The contour needs to be slightly narrowed around the thumb and in the lifting zone. As a result - any shoes for dolls with their own hands will be better to fit the leg.

The second important point is the construction of the upper part:

1. We measure the height of future shoes in three places - in the front, exactly in the center, from the sides, and behind.
2. Then we draw the upper integral part. In shape, it will resemble a horseshoe. After drawing it on paper, attach the dolls to the leg and then make the necessary adjustments.

Important! The sole can be drawn in the shape of the insole, but it needs to be made wider and a couple millimeters in length.

When the base of shoes for dolls with your own hands is ready, you can use it to create almost any model.

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Greek style sandals

If your doll is small, with the proportions of a child, then heels and platforms are not needed here. Opt for flat sandals. For the base, cardboard, dense fabric, cork or polystyrene are suitable. For the upper part you will need skin, it is best to take a softer one.

The instructions for creating such DIY shoes for dolls are as follows:

• We take a measurement of the doll’s foot and cut out four stencils: two from fabric for the base, two from leather.
• Also cut out strips of leather. 2 - should be made as long and thin as possible, and 2 more - short, slightly wider, oval. They will be needed in order to create a weave.
• Place wide oval stripes on the toe, in front of the legs. Mark with a pencil the places where thin strips covering the foot will be inserted.

Important! You can make holes using manicure scissors or a simple awl, the main thing is that they are small and neat.

• We insert thin strips into the holes.
• Sew the strips of thread at the bottom of the sole.
• Now we sew long stripes that fix the sandals on the doll.

Such sandals will look great with any light dress, sarafan or suit.

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Heels

Do-it-yourself shoes for dolls like summer sandals with heels are perfect for never-aging Barbie dolls and trendy Monster High dolls.

Important! The foot of these toys is miniature, so care will be required in working with materials and tools so that the shoes look neat.

Operating procedure:

1. At the first stage we will prepare heels. They can be made from chopsticks for sushi or from polyurethane, giving the necessary shape.
2. Then we glue the heel with the cloth from which our shoes for dolls will be made with our own hands.
3. We also cut out the details of future sandals from the main fabric. Insole, sock and backdrop.
4. We form hard insoles from cardboard and glue them to the fabric.
5. The remaining parts - the toe and the back, are glued to the finished base-insole.
6. Then carefully fix the heels so that excess glue does not leak out.
7. For a fastener we paste a bead, and on the other hand - an elastic band.

Beautiful and fashionable shoes are ready!

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Stocking boots

Another great addition to the wardrobe of a stylish doll will be stocking boots, which can be both on the heel and on the platform:

• For the heel and the sole, you can choose polyurethane or foam, giving the desired shape.
• Then the base is covered with the most ordinary nail polish, in the color of the main fabric. This shine will give a special charm to DIY shoes for dolls.
• For the upper part, you should choose any elastic dense material. Microfiber or even old tight tights will do. Choose the length based on the desired size.
• Glue the sewn upper stocking to the sole and the boots are ready.

Important! The junction of the upper and lower parts can be decorated with small beads or rhinestones.

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Shoes

Shoes for dolls with their own hands can be made from absolutely any materials: leather, felt, suede, jeans, satin. Some craftswomen for the upper part take as a basis pieces of a regular plastic bottle and paste over it with lace:

• The basis of the shoes is the basic pattern of the sole and upper part.
• To give greater realism, you can additionally make a heel, size ⅓ from the sole, which will repeat the contours of the foot in the back of the insole.

Further work on creating shoes for dolls with their own hands consists of the following steps:

1. From the fabric we cut 4 parts of the upper part - for the front and for the wrong sides.
2. For the sole, we cut the heel and the sole out of leather, and we prepare the insoles from the main fabric.
3. We duplicate all details from fabric non-woven.
4. Fold the details of the upper part with each other, with the front side inward, grind the upper seam.
5. The edges of the fabric in this place are cut, cutting small triangles. Due to this, the upper edge of the shoe, which will be adjacent to the leg, will be perfectly flat.
6. We sew the back seam and iron the remaining fabric from the inside out in opposite directions.
7. We sweep the upper edge manually, then lay the finishing line on the machine.
8. We sweep the bottom edge together, giving a convex shape to the shoe and also sew on a typewriter.
9. We lay the finishing stitch on the sole, while sewing on the heel.
10. We manually weighed the lower edge of the shoe, shaping the nose, trying on the sole.
11. Then, manually sewing the needle back, we sew the main part of the shoe to the sole. At the same time, on the sole, we definitely get a needle into the punctures from the machine needle, just repeating the finishing line.
12. Then we turn everything on the inside, cut off the excess folds with small scissors.
13. We cut cardboard in the shape of the insole, and in the middle we glue a narrow oval on double-sided tape, also from cardboard, to fill the void formed on the sole. We pad the insole along the edge. Having inserted a cardboard, we fix assembly.
14. We put the insole on the sole and sew it by hand with a blind seam.
15. Gently twist on the face.
16. As a decor, shoes for dolls with their own hands can be decorated with beads, rhinestones or ribbons. You can also make a flower from a long strip of the main fabric, decorating the middle with a bead.

By the way, the whole process of assembling shoes can be done directly on the doll. In this case, the leg will serve as a kind of block, then shoes for dolls with their own hands are ideal in size.

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Boots

There are needlewomen who specialize in creating dolls-millipedes or dolls-snowballs. This is a very popular type of textile art. It is easy to recognize such pupae by their large head, legs, small embroidered or painted eyes. They are called snowballs for one simple reason - their authors are very fond of dressing them in sweaters and hats with pompons.

With shoes, do-it-yourself needlewomen most often choose shoes or boots based on them as shoe shoes for a doll. For this option, which is also suitable for dolls with a normal foot size, the following details will be needed:

• a sole that will repeat the heel of the doll;
• backdrop, which will simultaneously be the side parts;
• tongue, it will also close the doll’s sock.

We adjust all these details based on the size of your doll. The most important thing is when deciding how to make shoes for the doll, do not forget to add small tucks on the tongue, from the part that will be sewn to the sole up. They are necessary in order to give an oval shape to the front of the shoe:

1. Sew tucks on toes first. Then cut off the excess fabric from the inside, duplicate these parts with non-woven fabric.
2. Next, cut out the lining. Note that it will be slightly smaller than the main parts.
3. Then pick up the backs and also duplicate the non-woven fabric.
4. If desired, treat the edges of the backdrop and tongue with a decorative seam, threads in skin color or contrasting. But all shovchiks should be small and neat, as on factory real shoes.
5. Now proceed to installing the eyelets. They are made along the edges of the backdrop. On those parts that will adjoin each other in front of the shoe.

After that, in the process of how to make shoes for the doll, it is worth taking a break and conducting a thorough fitting. See if the boot fits snugly on the foot, or if everything is in place. When these issues are resolved, then proceed to the final part of the assembly:

• First of all, we connect the nose with the sole. If necessary, the skin can be flossed and pulling at its end, slightly pick up the material.
• Next, glue the back so that it covers the bow part, that is, the tongue.
• After that, try on the sole again. She should not sit back to back, but with gaps of 1-2 mm. Otherwise, the edge of the boot will look like a duck's beak.
• After, if everything is in order, glue the sole to the shoes. It is better to do this in two stages. Smeared - dried up - smeared - pressed. Remove excess glue immediately so that the boots have a neat appearance.

It remains to lace up the shoes and let the boots dry for about 6 hours.

Important! Using the same principle, you can solve the problem of how to sew sneakers for the doll with your own hands. The differences will be in the selected fabric - it is better to take jeans for the backdrop, white skin for the tongue and in the following points:

• When creating a sneaker, you do not need to put eyelets. Better to make Velcro.
• On the tongue and back, it is worth making a finishing machine line on the top with white threads.
• For more realism, place the junction of the sole and upper part with a wide strip of white leather. Attach a thin strip of black leather from above, then the shoes will look just like real ones.

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MK shoes from foamiran

Another material that is ideal for creating shoes for an interior doll with your own hands is foamiran. It looks like a regular sheet of paper. But in fact, this is a soft porous rubber obtained by foaming:

• Its main advantage is that it is easy to process and becomes malleable when exposed to even low temperatures. No wonder needlewomen call it plastic suede.
• Today, even in online stores, you can find a huge color palette of foamiran, which includes not only various shades, but also very unusual prints.
• The advantage of this material can be considered and ease of processing. He simply does not need it, since the foamiran does not crumble like fabric, and does not require duplication with non-woven fabric.
• Do-it-yourself parts for dolls made of foamiran can be easily connected to each other using ordinary hot glue. The main thing is to quickly remove its excess so that they do not leave ugly smudges.
• Its plasticity allows you to cut out from foamiran any, even the most bizarre forms, which in the product will look concise and original.

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In this article, we tried to tell everything about shoes for dolls with our own hands, patterns for beginners are painted in stages. You just have to adopt these tips and put them into practice.They will be useful both to masters who specialize in creating charming dolls, and to those who just know how to hold a needle with a thread in their hands and want to please their daughter with new stylish things for their favorite dolls.