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Forget those expensive string dolls! Make your own, personalized string dolls! (Not intended for voodoo! ;P)
I've been making these for a while now and I figured I better share how I make them so other people can enjoy making them, too! I know it looks like a lot of steps, but a lot of them go fast and there was really no easier way for me to explain it. :/ anyhow, enjoy!!
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Step 1create a base to make your string doll's body on. use Styrofoam and glue a guide on top so you know where to put your pins. the measurements for where the pins should go is in the image.
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Step 2now we begin to make the head. this is the brand of yarn/string I use, but anything you think will work can work. just be sure that your string isn't too thin, or your project will take twice as long to make and look half as nice!
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Step 3to start wrapping the head, it's easiest if you take a pony-bead and tie the string in a knot through it.
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Step 4now start wrapping around the bead, forming the head. make sure to wrap it tight and secure so it doesn't unravel! (I should know. It's a pain in the behind.)
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Step 5keep wrapping until your ball of string is a little less than an inch wide. Then, cut the string about a foot and a half or so away from the ball. add two seed beads of your choice and continue to wrap the head until it is about and inch wide.
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Step 6secure the end of the string to the heat with a dab from the hot glue gun, then cut off the access when the glue has completely hardened.
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Step 7set the head aside. Now we begin on the body! :D get out that pin board you made earlier. start wrapping your string around the pins until there are 3 or 4 loops around each pin.
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Step 8LISTEN UP! Here is where everything starts to get confusing!
once finished, loop the string near the white pin on the board around each of the groups of loops (heh heh that rhymes!). Then tie that string and the string attached to the ball of yarn together. DO NOT CUT ANYTHING! the string attached to the yarn will be used to build up the rest of the body! remove the loops from the pegboard, like in the picture. see how it looks a pit like a person? -
Step 9we are starting by wrapping the leg. wrap the leg with the loops tight together. do this until you reach the end of the leg.
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Step 10now start wrapping back up the leg, with the loops tight as before. congrats! You've just completed the first leg! (No pun intended!)
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Step 11loop the string twice around the waist of the doll.
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Step 12Now wrap the other leg as you did the first leg. Yay! Now you've completed leg two!
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Step 13wrap the string twice over the opposite shoulder of the leg you just wrapped.
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Step 14wrap the same arm as the shoulder. You've probably got the hand of it by now! ;) then loop the string twice over the opposite shoulder.
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Step 15wrap the final arm.
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Step 16now wrap around the legs to create the torso.
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Step 17cut the string a ways from the body and thread your blunt needle. at the back of the body, draw the needle up under the tors you just wrapped. this kind of keeps it from unraveling. secure the string with a drop from your hot glue gun, then trim the access string.
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Step 18now grab the head you made earlier and secure it in the loop for the head.
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Step 19pull the head back and dab a bit of hot glue where the head joins to the body.
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Step 20once the glue hardens, turn the doll around and push it's head forward, repeating the step before except for the back of the head.
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Step 21now to further secure the head, dab glue around the top and sides of the head loop so the head doesn't unexpectedly pop out. (Trust me on this! it's pretty freaky, i'm saving you of a heart attack!) Yay! you can stop here if you want, but if you totally want to embellish your doll keep going!
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Step 22to make hair for our doll, loop crochet thread around three of your fingers.
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Step 23pull the loops off your finger and cut a string that's pretty long.
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Step 24tie the string into a knot around the loops.
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Step 25now cut the loops so they look like this.
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Step 26I can't really explain this next step, so use the picture as guidance. you sort of lay the strings flat so that they are radiating from the center.. does that make sense? :/
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Step 27maybe this picture explains it better?
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Step 28anyway, glue the hair to the doll's head. make sure all of the 'hairs' are thoroughly glued down. you don't want any flyaways.
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Step 29now just cut and style how you want! I gave the doll bangs in this picture.
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Step 30for clothes, wrap crochet thread around the body as you did the limbs. secure the thread in the back with dabs from the hot glue gun. then, add a keychain, a jump ring, whatever! just make it yours! ;D
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((Just a quick question though. How did you put on the eyes? did you insert them in the crochet thread or did you glue gun it into place?))