Vintage rag doll pattern

Informative blog about vintage sewing patterns to make cloth dolls - all about cloth doll patterns from the 20th century.

Over the last few months I’ve been hard at work developing a pattern for a Rag Doll. “Why a Rag Doll?” you might ask. Well the truth is that I’ve always loved dolls. I loved my barbies, I loved my china dolls, and I loved hand made rag dolls as well. When I was 8 years old, My Grandma Fran gave me h

Ella DeHart self published many doll patterns in the 1960s and '70s. Many, like this one, are Barbie-sized. Cicely is dressed as a bride in the Empire style of the early 19th century. Cicely has a quarter-seamed head with ears, an hourglass torso with separate bust pieces to stitch over her body after stuffing, and a shapely bottom. She has stitching to indicate fingers. She is to be made of skin-toned percale, fine linen or any cotton. The maker is instructed to cut the head pieces on the…

The finished Raggedy Ann using the pattern below. Just the other day, I had been reading Raggedy Ann to our little people. And the children decided they wanted something to do. So we decided to make our own raggedy dolls with muslin scraps. We gathered cotton, muslin, buttons, yarn, watercolor paints, needle and thread, and flowered calico. I cut the pattern, body and head in one piece. Below is the diagram and dimensions. The pattern allows a seam, with stitching on the dotted lines. Leave…

Ok, so maybe it doesn’t look a thing like these from Pottery Barn Kids, but I think this rag doll is my most favorite thing of all the crafts I’ve done to date. I set out to make a rag doll out of stuff that we had around the house since that is the [...]

We made primitive, no-sew rag dolls circa ~The Olden Days~ with our Brownies, which I thought would be appropriate for the Thanksgiving ...

Rag dolls are old-time favorites of children. They're super easy to make from spare pieces of fabric or unwanted older fabric that would otherwise be thrown out. You can make them as simple or as complex as you like. You can even adjust...

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Learning how to make a rag doll with mum or grandma is something kids will remember their whole lives. It’s fun on a cold or rainy day to sit together and