Dolly Face Felt Ideas

Inspired by Jeanie from California's fabulous dollie faces, I thought I’d put a few photos of some simple shapes cut out of felt for those of you that don’t like to paint.

These simple faces can be quickly stitched securely into place to make fun faces for your Dollies!

For when you are feeling brave, I promise painting is much easier than you think, especially when you follow my free video tutorials!! I break it all down …… have a go, I dare you! You’ll be surprised at how well you’ll do!!

Easy Free Face Painting Ttutorial

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How to make a Felt Flower for Dolly’s Hair

After cutting out all my felt hair I found that I had so much scrap felt. Not to be one to waste anything, and an obsessive recycler, I decided to come up with a cute simple flower for your Dolly’s hair!

It’s quick, easy and uses up even the smallest bits of felt!

Have Fun, and Happy Sewing!

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Thank You!

By Pippa (UK)

We have lots of Finished Dollies on our flicker page! Come check them out.


And a BIG Thank You to everyone who Donated Fabric!

Lynne L (AZ)

Lynn (AZ)

Carol T (AZ)

Thank you for all the wonderful, encouraging e-mails everyone! I love hearing from you all!

And a special Thank You to Karin in Canada and Lorrain in England for all their recommendations and blog posts!

Please keep Spreading the Word!

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How to Paint a Girl Dolly’s Mouth - Free Tutorial

I thought I would do a quick tutorial on how to paint a Girl Dolly’s lips as they are much fuller than the boys and could be a little tricky for someone just starting to paint.

Have fun, and Happy Painting!

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The Abundant Ground Foundation: A Better World, 1 Dolly at a Time!

The wonderful people behind The Abundant Ground Foundation have written a lovely article all about Dolly Donations and what we are trying to achieve together.

“Surrounded by the loss of life as recovery efforts continue, even the strongest of Haitian survivors must feel weakened by all that they have experienced. In the face of such destruction, it can be easy to overlook those who must be the most overwhelmed by the events of January 12th the children of Haiti. It is because of this that Sarah Hanson and her Dolly Donations program has teamed with the Abundant Ground Foundation in an attempt to bring some stability and comfort children of Haiti”

“The creation of 181 dolls for these children is an act of love and compassion, and this love serves as the driving force that keeps the doll-makers going and the doll count rising .”

Read the whole article here…..

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How to make a Bad Hair Day…. Good!

Double up your felt, don’t draw out the design just use your card template and wiz through the felt with a rotary cutter!!!

2 for the effort of 1!!!

You have to agree, I had a very Good Hair day today ;)

Watch this Space!! I will be posting a tutorial on how to turn your scrap felt into a cute flower for your Dolly’s hair :)

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Craft Hope : Gives Me Hope!

I was just referred to this fabulous group of crafters by a friend, and I’m blown away by how wonderful and supportive they are!

'Craft Hope is a love inspired project designed to share handmade crafts with those who need them. It is our hope to combine our love for crafting and desire to help others into a project to make a difference around the world.’

Filled with free patterns and always with an active donation drive (their current one is making scarfs for the orphan foundation) they give hope not only to other crafters out there that their dreams to help others can come true, but to those so desperately in need.

Please check them out!

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Are You a Teacher or Home School Your Children? - Download the Dolly Tutorial!

I made the Free Dolly Pattern so simple and easy to follow so that parents (and teachers) could help their children, as I love the idea of children helping and giving to children less fortunate than them. But it’s a pain having to look at the computer screen to follow the tutorial isn’t it!

Well, now you can Download Free Dolly Donations Instructional Tutorial to the Free Dolly Donations Dolly, and make life a little easier…. in fact everyone can! (Thank you to The Scarpa Family for the wonderful idea!)

Please click on the Link:

Download Free Dolly Donations PDF Instructional Tutorial

Thank You & Happy Sewing!

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Sod the Scissors, the Rotary Cutter is a Crafting Delight!

Oh how this rotary cutter brings me such joy! No longer am I fumbling with the scissors, no longer do I even need to draw the pattern onto the fabric……. It glides through the material like butter, fast, accurate, layers and layers of it!!

Look how my pattern pieces stack up!!

Thank you quiet quilting lady who whispered the secret joys of the rotary cutter to me in the aisle of Joan’s yesterday morning! THANK YOU!!!

I can’t recommend this tool enough!! Ahhhhh a good day’s work! Now I have the fun of picking and choosing the fabric to use in each Dolly!

Happy Sewing!!!!

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Haiti: Children’s Only Toys Are Fashioned From Trash

I just read an article that reported on a tent camp in Haiti, stating that ‘they teemed with children whose only toys were hewn from garbage ….. ‘

I look at the many colorful …. safe…. toys in my daughter’s toy box on the living room floor, and hope that I can make a difference. Let the children be children and play with something that is theirs….

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