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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Fabric Dollmaking supplies-3 tips on choosing the right Doll stuffing


Several times the beginning stitcher will spend hours or even days painstakingly Couture a pattern of doll only ruin it choose not not right doll stuffing. Part of the problem, is that the author of the inexperienced doll may be overwhelmed by the multitude of doll to make available supplies. However, the bad filling can not only doll damage a legacy-quality, but it can be downright dangerous.

For a beginner, ease, convenience and cost are the most important things to consider in the choice of doll making supplies. Doll dress, skin of doll, doll eye, doll hair and the face of the doll may require a serious research make order that perfect doll. But the farce doll? Who cares? Could not even see it.

Choosing the farce of doll right requires research and deliberate thinking. If the doll will be for a child, this doll will be liked and dragged around two indoors and outdoors, or it will sit on a shelf and be admired? The child has any allergies? If the doll will be a holiday decoration, where is it stored the other eleven months of the year?

Here are some tips to help you choose the doll good padding for your project.

Choosing the right doll stuffing - Tip # 1:

As a general rule, not stuff all doll with a food product. The doll can never be washed without cut carefully sewn seams and by removing the first joke.

If the doll will live in a humid climate, almost all food stuffing can germinate and ruin the doll. Wonderful smell coffee beans, but they can stain of skin tissue and it ruined forever.

Dolls stuffed any stored in attics or basements and organic material can attract vermin and bugs. Creatures will ruin the doll and create a problem that could require a professional exterminator.

Choosing the right doll stuffing - Tip # 2:

There are several dolls on display in museums which have been filled with sawdust, and there are many creators of dolls out there who think that wood is the only genuine choice. The farce of sawdust is a viable option for all s, beginners and beyond.

However, this wood sawdust is not a product any random on the floor of a wood shop swept away because much of the available wood today has been treated chemically.

There is a doll special stuffing produces sawdust available in stores specializing in doll supplies from non-treated wood very clean, very dry, and it has been sieved so sawdust is uniform in size.

Choosing the right doll stuffing - Tip # 3:

Many responsible doll as myself promotes padded polyester stuffing which can be found at any craft or fabric store. Buy the best quality and your stuffing will go faster and will be more smooth against the skin of the doll. The better quality, better it be held form of the doll.

Padded polyester is hypoallergenic. He washes and dries better than any other product. It may be extremely firm stuffed, or may have some give in it. When it was wet, it is not leech any colour or smell in the fabric. It is not beard (working its way through the fibers of tissue).

To give more weight to the doll and to help the meeting or asking, do a little cloth bag and fill with polypropylene pellets, which are also available in most craft stores. It Tuck in the doll around the buttocks area. Pellets in addition a realistic heft to the doll.




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