How Do You Design Doll Clothes Patterns Using Tissue Paper?
Fashion designers drape their mannequins to create original clothing design patterns. You can do the same thing to design and create doll patterns for any of your dolls. Turn your doll into a miniature mannequin and you can design the doll patterns of your dreams. Choose the doll you want to design the doll patterns for and remove any clothing the doll wears. Start by designing a skirt, which is a simple piece to design. This gives you a feel for working with the tissue paper. Lay the doll on the tissue paper. Use scissors to trim the tissue paper as you go along. For a full skirt, you want to triple the waist width. For a form-fitting skirt, you want to stay close to the waist width, while taking into account the hip width. Pin the skirt around the doll into the skirt shape you desire using dressmaker pins. Allow enough fullness that you can easily slide the skirt off the doll. Repeat this procedure for the shirt. Pin the main torso, or bodice, of the shirt first. Pin the sleeves sepa
