Cutting and Sewing
- Cut out your pattern pieces.
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Step 2
Fold your muslin fabric in half, and pin your pattern pieces on the folded muslin.
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Step 3
Cut a total of four arm pieces, four leg pieces and two body pieces.
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Step 4
Sew the two body pieces together first. Use a 1/4-inch seam or what is called a presser-foot width.
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Step 5
Start at the bottom of one side of the body and follow all around, leaving the straight bottom open for stuffing.
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Step 6
Stitch two arm pieces together starting at the corner of the short, straight edge of the top and going around the mitten hand.
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Step 7
Stop at the opposite corner of the short, straight edge. Leave the straight edge open so you can stuff the arm.
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Step 8
Stitch the other two arm pieces together.
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Step 9
Stitch two leg pieces together. Start at the corner of the straight edge, go down the length, around the curved top of the foot, and come back up, stopping at the corner of the opposite short, straight edge.
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Step 10
Stitch the other two leg pieces together.
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Step 11
Clip all curved edges, preferably with pinking shears.
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Step 12
Turn right side out with the seams inside.
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Step 13
Stuff with polyester fiberfill so that the pieces are firm, but not hard.
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Step 14
Pinch the top of a stuffed leg closed so that the back and front seams meet.
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Step 15
Insert a pin to hold the top closed. Place the leg on your sewing machine and stitch the top closed.
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Step 16
Remove the pin, and repeat with the other leg.
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Step 17
Use an iron set at medium temperature, and press about 1/2 inch of the raw edge bottom of the body under.
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Step 18
Insert the legs into the body, feet facing forward, and pin the legs in place.
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Step 19
Machine stitch the legs into the body.
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Step 20
Fold the raw edge of an arm inside at the top. (The arm seams are at the sides and will not meet as the leg seams did.)
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Step 21
Pin the arms to the side of the doll’s body.
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Step 22
Stitch the arms to the doll where the shoulders are. Use a blanket stitch or a buttonhole stitch to hold the arms to the body.