Dollhouses made of felt steel in Lately very popular. Many mothers wonder how to make such a toy for their daughter. You can think of a lot of options for houses, they will functionally differ from each other, depending on the purpose.

Toy house

All girls play dolls, but dolls need to live somewhere. A dollhouse can of course be bought at a toy store. But it is much more interesting and entertaining to do it yourself. For example, they can be an interesting alternative to a purchased product. The felt toy can contain rooms - a living room, a bedroom, a dining room, even a bathroom. A small real doll can live in such a house, or maybe a felt baby. Felt houses can be sewn using this pattern.

This pattern is universal in that it can be used to sew many options for houses for dolls. You can simply cut out a house according to the pattern from a sufficiently large piece of felt or drape, not forgetting to cut out the floor separately, decorate it and use different ways mount the fasteners into a single whole. You can split the drawing into its individual components - floor, 4 walls, 2 roof parts - and put it together. Another pattern used to sew felt houses is given below.

Felt houses, made according to the proposed patterns, will be voluminous and look in general terms like this.

Principles of making a toy felt house

A voluminous house must definitely keep its shape. Therefore, it must be made multi-layered.

• The outer side is made of felt. It is decorated with decorative elements - windows, shutters, a door, flowers, a fence - everything you want to make the craft look like a real house or a princess castle.
• The inner part can be made from a thin sheet of foam rubber and a dense plastic film (covers for the commercially available bedspreads, blankets and pillows are made from it). The film will protect the house from moisture, the foam rubber will be a material that helps to keep its shape.
• The interior decoration of a toy house can be very different! It is most convenient for a homemade toy to have one room with an exit "to the yard". Although, if desired, such a craft can be made two-three-tiered. Then there can be several rooms in the house.

It is impossible not to mention how to make the floor. The house must be reliable, even if it is a toy, and even felt. Therefore, when sewing the frame of the house in the cavity of the floor, above the film and foam rubber, you should lay a dense sheet of cardboard - from the packaging box, for example.

How to furnish a house and how to close it?

Since toy houses made of felt are a volumetric structure, this allows the use of volumetric furnishings. They can also be made from fabric or materials at hand, or you can use purchased toy furniture of a suitable size.

There are several ways to assemble a dollhouse from felt:

• sew on the side seams from the front side two detachable zippers;
• use valves with Velcro (with Velcro tape);
• connect parts of the house with decorative large buttons and loops.

In any case, the house must be securely closed so as not to lose things during the transfer.

House-handbag

Sew a house for a felt doll is possible not only in a three-dimensional version, but also in the form of a small handbag, which will be convenient for a child to take with him for a walk, on a trip or on a visit. An approximate pattern of a toy bag looks like that shown in the photo below.

A drawing is made on a sheet of paper in the estimated size of the bag, additional "rooms" are attached to it. On the sketch, you can immediately draw the furnishings in order to make individual items according to the size of the handbag.

In such a craft, it is important to provide reliable fasteners so that nothing is lost while carrying the bag. For this, it is more convenient to make a separate closable pocket, in which the child can remove all removable parts and the doll.

Houses made of felt, made with their own hands and having the shape of a children's handbag, involve the use of mostly flat elements. All furnishings are imitation of real objects (table, bed, wardrobe or bath). But they can also be filled with functionality. For example, make a crib in the form of a pocket, one corner of which leans back. The chrysalis "goes to bed" and hides itself with this blanket-nook. The bathroom should also be made reclining - upper part put the bowls on a hat elastic, sewing the rest of the sides tightly to the house. Then the doll will be able to "take a bath". Curtains can also be made to fly away, this will add realism to the toy. Another interesting option is to make opening doors in cabinets, on shelves (a small button-handle, and inside an applique depicting household items). There are a lot of options on how to make the atmosphere of a handbag house, you just need to put a drop of imagination and desire to surprise and please your daughter.

House-book

The dollhouse made of felt in the form of a book is very interesting. If the folding versions of such a toy cannot have a huge number of "rooms", then the house-book is, in fact, an endless opportunity to create a puppet world out of felt. Each spread of a book toy - a room, some kind of room, park, forest, garden - anything can be embodied in such a toy! Book-house made of felt is created on the principle of a house-bag: a two-dimensional world with flying components. Moreover, it will be more convenient for such a toy if the hostess-doll is also felt.

How to assemble a house book? This is the most important question in such creativity. You can, of course, go to a specialized workshop and punch through the eyelet rings, where large rings are inserted, on which the sheets of the book are then turned over. But it is more convenient to fasten houses made of felt in the form of a book with braid, besides, such a book can be easily supplemented with the necessary pages - what if the doll goes on a journey?

Felt hostess of the felt house

Houses made of felt, if they are a flat toy - a handbag or a book, suggest the use of a small baby doll or a felt doll in the game. A felt toy can become an original addition to the house, because it can also be used to sew outfits and make accessories. And for her, you can make a whole felt family, including pets.

Here is a pattern for the doll itself and the basic elements of her wardrobe.

To dress up the doll, it is enough to sew on the little body a piece of Velcro with "claws" on it. Then the clothes themselves will cling to the doll and hold in place. Such a piece of Velcro is best done in the form of a swimsuit - and the doll will look more interesting, and the clothes will stick better around the body. The same technique can be used to change the doll's hairstyle.

Sewing doll houses out of felt with your own hands is not difficult, you just need to put maximum imagination and desire to make interesting thing... Felt is a unique material, it is well processed, does not crumble, it can be of different thickness, and how many colors - any fantasy can become a reality together with felt. Good luck!

2. the pages of the book will be 21 by 21, but I suggest starting with a doll, here are several options, you can sew your own, and below I will tell you a little how and why I sewed a doll

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8. I sewed just such a doll, the height was 10.5 cm, I deliberately made my hair long so that the doll fluttered less and lived longer, I stitched the body on the hair

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10. patterns in parts

11. You don't have to do the head separately from the body, I did it in order to save felt.since my felt is thin, I stitched the doll in several layers
3 - head, dotted line- finished view, slot connection
4 - torso
1 - the lower part of the legs, it is better to cut in a piece, stitch, and then trim to the shape of the leg
2 - hair 2 parts, one with a cut for the head, the other without

the build order is as follows
we connect the head to the body, cut out a barbed Velcro in the shape of a swimsuit and stitch it, make a cut in the hair, insert the body and stitch it, putting it under lower part legs part 1, then we take the hair without a cut and stitch it, closing the ugly wrong side.

I painted the face acrylic paints on the fabric, but for those who are not friends with paints, I do not advise you to immediately try on a doll. Felt, not a smooth fabric and paints are even more difficult to put, it is better to replace paints altogether, there are higher design options, you can try just with a pen

well, we make clothes at our discretion, I did not sew Velcro on the clothes from the inside out, because felt already holds on to the prickly Velcro of a swimsuit so well

12. I started from the bedroom, while I made sketches and patterns, there will be 2 pages at once, on one bed, on another wardrobe
I will have this background

13. here are some rough sketches

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15. Well, templates, A4 format, I remind you that the pages are 21 by 21.in the upper right corner of the window and details to it

16. wardrobe, door 2 children and a rug

17. approximately my rooms will look like this, nothing is scribbled, there are no trifles and decorations, I just tried on if everything would fit

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19. I advise you to cut and overlay everything. in order to understand in what sequence what to start sewing, so personally I will start from the window, I have it below everything

before assembling the room, we prepare all the details, my felt is thin, so I make the non-stitched details double, where we need to sew on fasteners, Velcro, ribbons and come up with all sorts of little things such as lamps, clocks, and other things

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21. the page with the bed I got like this

22. and now the individual elements.table lamp, first scribbled the leg, then the lampshade on the round side

23. window, scribbled along the edge, then scribbled a lambrequin on top on 3 sides

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25. bedside table, scribbled along the entire perimeter along the edge, scribbled a door along one bottom side, there is a book in the bedside table

26. I scribbled the bed in 2 steps, first I put the blue base and the upper back on each other with an overlap of 4-5 mm and scribbled along the back, without breaking the thread, scribbled further along the perimeter of the entire bed. The second stage stitched the lower back on 3 sides

27. we stitch the rug, having previously tried it on with the cabinet

28. stitching the base of the cabinet

29. we stitch the doors on one side

30. and place clothes

31. kitchen sketches

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33. patterns, I remind you, A4 format, well, it's better to check a little symmetry and evenness of the lines, all the same, the fotik distorts

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35. this is a plate and a lower cabinet, in this case I make the door of the plate, cut out a window, inserted a film there and stitched it along the perimeter

36. kitchen details in an expanded, so to speak, open form

37. with closed doors

38. try on a page, the red rectangle is a barbed Velcro for various little things that will appear later

39. this is my page with kitchen, I will add food and other little things gradually

40. there are only eggs in the fridge so far

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45.the dining room
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48. cabinet, cut holes, inserted shelves,

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51. scribbled a wardrobe and a chair

52. now the table, but not completely, has left the entrance from above and below

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55. as a result, here is such a kitchen-dining room

56. rough sketch of bathroom pages

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63. first we tune the lower details

64. then everything else

65. I decided to make a curtain

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70. well, here is, perhaps, the last page, I thought to make another game, in, apparently, not in this book

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73. nevertheless, I decided to make a page with nature, I will not make patterns on these pages, since I will cut out how the hand will lie

74. I got such a page with the sea

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sky and sand first

76. add mountains

77. now we start to add the sea

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79. after stitching the bathing pocket, I realized that it was very deep, so I scribbled one small piece

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85. and I decided to add a swing

86. that's all. the pages of the book are ready, we proceed to the assembly, for a start, I laid out the pages of the book as they should lie and each 2 pages lying to each other on the wrong side, connected along the perimeter with a line for convenience, because in the future I will be edging the pages
before finally collecting and edging the book, you need to make a cover, here it is at your discretion and desire
I will have such a cover

87. from personal experience I know that children rarely put the parts in the pocket, something is still forgotten in the book and is lost, so I made the book closed from the bottom on the side with Velcro, cut out 2 part, first stitched one end, folded it in half, tucked in the allowances and stitched around the perimeter, pre-stitching Velcro on the edge

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Pattern of a book-house for a doll, dolls: a boy and a girl, as well as clothes for them.

This book will remind many of the games with paper dolls, houses in notebooks and albums. And perhaps it will push to the consciousness of something similar for a daughter, granddaughter, girlfriend….

This is not my first book-house. The first was. It so happened that I more often sewed a book about Zaykin's house for boys. The new book is more suitable for girls. Although the basis of the book is universal, in my opinion. It is easy to turn a book into a boy's book with the color of the material and details.

The book is sewn from, the pages keep their shape perfectly and they do not need to be additionally strengthened. The edges of felt parts are not frayed, so the material does not require additional processing. The pages of the book are connected in a very simple way. First, 1-2 and 7-8 are connected on a connecting strip, we leave a connection 1 cm wide, and then, then 3-4 and 5-6, but on a 3-5mm strip. After that, the book is stitched in the middle. Please note that in some of the photos you can see how the sheets are connected.

Let's take a closer look. The size of the book is slightly smaller than the landscape sheet. Compact and easy to play at the same time. The book with handles, like a handbag, closes with a button so as not to lose details.

Two girlfriends are the heroines of the book.

Dolls made of felt and clothes for them are the most main topic... Two girlfriends are very fond of dressing up.

The felt holds the Velcro quite well, so I did not sew a soft base onto the body of the pupae. Velcro only on dresses.

The eyes, nose and mouth are embroidered and the cheeks are rounded with colored pencils.

The entire doll wardrobe fits into the shafu (while it fits :)). There is a Velcro base in the closet so that the dresses don't get confused. The doors are closed with a button, hat elastic loop for easy fastening.

The dresses themselves are made of colored felt, patterned felt, decorated with felt stickers, ribbon, beads. On the back side Velcro is sewn on.

By popular demand, the girls had a friend or brother. Or maybe you want to sew a house especially for a boy, just change color range interior.

A cat lives in the house - wooden toy on a clothespin with a felt tail. Never again will we meet him in photographs.

Large hat elastic button and loop.

Cute details (butterflies, flowers) adorn the page. I used felt stickers, but buttons and beads, appliques will also look wonderful.

First U-turn. Window with curtain and dining room. Colored cotton curtain. In the photo, it is assembled on silicone rubber bands for hair, but they can be removed. Curtains are beautifully assembled on small clothespins. Curtains are fun to experiment with! The window is open on the cover and the first page of the book, you can look through it. Large table - pocket. Behind it, dolls are perfectly placed, and on it are treats. Velcro felt dishes. The table itself is made of felt, to which the Velcro sticks. If you don't have a suitable felt, sew on some pieces of Velcro backing to hold the food in place.

Sweets are just ordinary baby stickers, not paper ones. They can be peeled off and glued again, and then replaced with new ones. There are a lot of beautiful stickers now, so it will be easy to add variety!

On the wall there is a frame-pocket for a picture. You can change it according to your mood. And even draw your own.

In stationery stores you can find very cute things, such as clothespins - ice cream, stickers with food.

The second spread is the bedroom and wardrobe.

The wardrobe is closed with a button, inside there is a Velcro base to hold the dresses.

The bed is a pocket in which both dolls are placed. The pillows are also sewn so that there is a pocket under them, which means that under the pillow you can hide a book or a gift from a mouse for the first tooth. We take out our favorite book from under the pillow and read it before bed.

Reading before bed is a wonderful tradition and a wonderful time. There is also a book under the dolls' pillow.

The felt book is quite small, but this is what makes it especially attractive.

In this toy, I used felt stickers and crayons for painting on fabric.

Creating a book, drawing a picture, drawing up a menu, designing clothes are excellent opportunities for the development of a child's imagination and creativity. It seems to me that it was this very opportunity to create that attracted us so much in childhood to such toys.

The third spread is the bathroom. Taking a shower and tidying up is also very interesting and fun!

The mirror takes an important place. I was very happy when I found it in the store. It is safe, but reflects as well as the present. You can replace the mirror with foil, shiny chocolate or cookie wrapping. In a pocket under the mirror there is a hairdryer, a comb and a powder brush. On the mirror there are stickers-bows for girls' hairstyles. These are regular stickers from a stationery store. It turned out that they adhere well to felt, but can be removed when needed, without marks. Stickers can be very interesting to diversify the game in such a book.

Bathroom - pocket, Velcro shampoo. You can hang a towel on the tape or dry the linen.

Hot and cold water - buttons on the leg.

House-book for dolls made of felt

Let's take a closer look. The size of the book is slightly smaller than the landscape sheet. Compact and easy to play at the same time. The book with handles, like a handbag, closes with a button so as not to lose details.

Two girlfriends are the heroines of the book. A cat lives in the house - a wooden toy on a clothespin with a felt tail. Never again will we meet him in photographs.

Large hat elastic button and loop.

Cute details (butterflies, flowers) adorn the page. I used felt stickers, but buttons and beads, appliques will also look wonderful.

First U-turn. Window with curtain and dining room. Colored cotton curtain. In the photo, it is assembled on silicone rubber bands for hair, but they can be removed. Curtains are beautifully assembled on small clothespins. Curtains are fun to experiment with! The window is open on the cover and the first page of the book, you can look through it. Large table - pocket. Behind it, dolls are perfectly placed, and on it are treats. Velcro felt dishes. The table itself is made of felt, to which the Velcro sticks. If you don't have a suitable felt, sew on some pieces of Velcro backing to hold the food in place.

Sweets are just ordinary baby stickers, not paper ones. They can be peeled off and glued again, and then replaced with new ones. There are a lot of beautiful stickers now, so it will be easy to add variety!

On the wall there is a frame-pocket for a picture. You can change it according to your mood.

And even draw your own.

I couldn't get past the Japanese food stickers. The girls have sushi for dinner.

And some more sweets.

In stationery stores you can find very cute things, such as such clothespins - ice cream.

The second spread is the bedroom and wardrobe.

The wardrobe is closed with a button, inside there is a Velcro base to hold the dresses.

The bed is a pocket in which both dolls are placed. The pillows are also sewn so that there is a pocket under them, which means that under the pillow you can hide a book or a gift from a mouse for the first tooth. We take out our favorite book from under the pillow and read it before bed.

Creating a book, drawing a picture, drawing up a menu, designing clothes are excellent opportunities for the development of a child's imagination and creativity. It seems to me that it was this very opportunity to create that attracted us so much in childhood to such toys.

The third spread is the bathroom. Taking a shower and tidying up is also very interesting and fun!

The mirror takes an important place. I was very happy when I found it in the store. It is safe, but reflects as well as the present. You can replace the mirror with foil, shiny chocolate or cookie wrapping. In a pocket under the mirror there is a hairdryer, a comb and a powder brush. On the mirror there are stickers-bows for girls' hairstyles. These are regular stickers from a stationery store. It turned out that they adhere well to felt, but can be removed when needed, without marks. Stickers can be very interesting to diversify the game in such a book.

Here the girl has already tried on a bow, beauty!

Bathroom - pocket, Velcro shampoo. You can hang a towel on the tape or dry the linen.

The water is hot and cold.

Nice wooden clothespin.

And this is a box with gifts that will make the game with the book more interesting. Stickers, felt, Velcro, patterns! Everything you need for creativity.

Thank you for stopping by! Have you already figured out what your house will look like? We are waiting for invitations to housewarming :)

Two girlfriends are very fond of dressing up.

The felt holds the Velcro quite well, so I did not sew a soft base onto the body of the pupae. Velcro only on dresses.

Frankly, it was the creation of dolls and outfits that took most of the time. There are many templates on the Internet, especially paper ones. The most successful of felt, I found dolls with clothes from Charla Anne and Smile and Wave. But in the end I drew myself, so that there were simple, but not too shapes, convenient figures for sewing and playing.

The hardest part turned out to be making the faces. At first, I turned out to be aunts, not girls. The point here is both the expression on the face and the hairstyle. As a result of the tests, these girls turned out. The eyes, nose and mouth are embroidered and the cheeks are rounded with colored pencils.

How many paper dolls were dressed up in childhood, it's scary to remember. The work on this part of the book was long, but very enjoyable.

The entire doll wardrobe fits into the shafu (while it fits :)). There is a Velcro base in the closet so that the dresses don't get confused. The doors are closed with a button, hat elastic loop for easy fastening.

The dresses themselves are made of colored felt, patterned felt, decorated with felt stickers, ribbon, beads. Velcro is sewn on the back.

Sewing dresses for these dolls is a pleasure. But I pulled myself together and stopped, leaving room for creativity for the little mistress of toys. Complementary to ready-made dresses will be pieces of felt, stickers, Velcro and sewing patterns. With their help, you can come up with amazing outfits. It is enough to cut the dress, stick on the decorations and Velcro. I hope that mom and daughter will have a lot of pleasure from joint creativity, and the dolls will have many new outfits.

book for doll

Reading before bed is a wonderful tradition and a wonderful time. There is also a book under the dolls' pillow.

The felt book is quite small, but this is what makes it especially attractive.

In this toy, I used felt stickers and crayons for painting on fabric.

And the little mistress of this toy will be able to feel like a writer, creating a book for dolls with her own hands. This set of books with blank pages and felt stickers will be a nice addition to your toys.