Craft task - How To Make A Fashion Doll Dress Out Of Baby Socks

Craft task - How To Make A Fashion Doll Dress Out Of Baby Socks

As a grandmother to a precious miniature girl, I am all the time thinking up of ways to make new craft items by re-using her outgrown baby socks. As a mum or grandmother, I am sure you know that they outgrow those socks before they even begin to wear them out!

Since I am a 'green' grandmother, I have been re-purposing those socks into new items that she can play with. One of the things I came up with is this cute dress that be used with 11 1/2" fashion dolls. Here is how you can make one too but it does want a miniature bit of crocheting.

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To Make The 1 piece Fashion Doll Dress: You will need one baby sock, in this case, I used a light purple one. These are the superior stretch knit ones. I cut the heal and toe section off so that the tube remaining measures 4 3/4" long. The top occasion of the sock will be the top of the dress, the raw edge (the cut edge) will be the bottom. You will want to fold under 1/8" of the raw edge so that its inexpressive inside the dress. Using bedspread weight cotton and a size 4 crochet hook, you will want to do a picot stitch trim nearby the hemline of the dress working straight through both layers so that the raw edge will be inside.

Picot Trim: Attach by particular crocheting, chain 2, particular crochet in second chain from hook, insert hook straight through both layers about 1/8" away from your last stitch and particular crochet, chain 2, particular crochet in second chain from hook, insert hook straight through both layers about 1/8" away from your last stitch...go nearby the whole lowest edge of the dress in this manner and then terminate up by slant stitching in your first particular crochet, fasten off and weave in your ends.

To Make The 2 Piece Fashion Doll Dress: You will need to use 2 baby knit socks to make this outfit.

To Make The Top: I cut the heal and toe area off of the sock. It now measures 2 3/4: long. The occasion will be the top of the shirt and the quantum of the sock that you cut off will be the bottom. Using some sewing thread and a needle, fold 1/8" of the cut edge up and on the inside so that the raw edge is underneath your top. Use 2-4 stitches just to tack it up (these will be removed later).

Using a size 2 crochet hook, poke it straight through both layers of your raw edge end and attach cotton thread (bedspread weight crochet thread) with a particular crochet. Now you want to do the edging which is: chain 2, particular crochet in second stitch from your hook, poke your crochet needle straight through both layers about 1/8" away from your first particular crochet and particular crochet in that spot, chain 2, particular crochet in second chain from hook, poke your crochet needle straight through both layers 1/8" away from your former particular crochet and keep going nearby the circumference of your sock. Once around, join with a slant stitch in first particular crochet, Fasten off and weave in ends. Take off the tack stitches and your top is now done.

To Make The Skirt: The skirt is made just like the top except I used a white sock for this skirt and I also made it 1/2" longer in the distance than what I did for the top.

As you can see, this is a positively quick and easy task that will help you to recycle those outgrown baby socks into new items for your miniature girl to play with. Happy Crafting!

Craft task - How To Make A Fashion Doll Dress Out Of Baby Socks

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