I had a sudden inspiration thrill last Friday night to design a Christmas angel doll pattern for my Christmas decoration. So, I picked up my pencil & paper, start sketching my angel doll, then drafting the pattern and sew. For more other Christmas patterns, click here.
Here she is, my darling Angel Doll!!! As usual, she is here to be shared, just like other creations in Craft Passion. Hope to see you sew one soon 🙂
Christmas is just around the corner, this angel doll pattern and tutorial arrives just in time for this year-end festive season.
Three days ago, I posted a sneak preview of this angel doll on Craft Passion’s Facebook page, and she was loved immediately. I hope you already get all the materials needed to sew her. Please “Like” Craft Passion’s Facebook Page (if you haven’t followed us) to get some updates of what’s coming next in the craft’s pattern and tutorial.
Christmas Angel Doll Pattern
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Sewing this Christmas Angle Doll is pretty easy with the downloadable and printable pattern template that I have prepared for you. All you need to do is gather some fabrics, doll hair, sewing notions and paints to give the angel doll some facial expressions.
I used Chirstmas-themed fabric since I have some on hand. Otherwise, you may use Christmas colored fabrics, it will be equally festive too. As t=for the fur fabric for the wings, if you don’t have it on hand, you can always use plain white fabric.
For the hair, I use fur yarn since I don’t have doll hair available in my craft room. Just in case you do not have both, you can always use normal yarn to make doll hair. Here is the video on how to make doll hair from yarn. The process involved combing the yarns to open up the spun fibers. If you prefer your angel doll to have wavy hair, don’t use the straightener to straighten the fiber.
For other ideas, you can always adapt the Christmas Angel Doll pattern and make her into:
1. As an angle for the Christmas treetop: just change the stuffing of the skirt to a paper cone and glue it to the skirt. Or,
2. Attach a string on her head to be an ornament. Or,
3. Fill the skirt with some beads to make her stand better for table decoration. Or,
4. Enlarge the pattern to make a softie doll for your little one
Happy Sewing!
Sew Angel Doll Pattern
Christmas is just around the corner, this angel doll pattern and tutorial arrives just in time for this year-end festive season.🙂
Feel Free to adapt the pattern to make the angel doll into other forms that suit you:
1. As an angle for the Christmas treetop: just change the stuffing of the skirt to a paper cone and glue it to the skirt. Or,
2. Attach a string on her head to be an ornament. Or,
3. Fill the skirt with some beads to make her stand better for table decoration. Or,
4. Enlarge the pattern to make a softie doll for your little one.
Enjoy sewing them!
Download and print separately: SEWING PATTERN
Materials
- Fabric – skin color or tea-dye fabric 6″ x 4″
- Fabric – red or any festive color, 5″ x 12″
- Fur or Felt – white color, 5″ x 8″
- Lace, ric rac, & ribbon
- Fur yarn or doll hair
- Halo
- Poly-fill for stuffing
- Black fabric paint
- White fabric paint
- Blusher or pink fabric stamp pad
- Plain white paper in letter size
Tools
- Sewing machine
- Sewing needle and pins
- Pencil
- Erasable fabric marker
- Iron
- Fine tip paintbrush
- Flat tip brush
- Printer
- Scissors
- Tweezers
Instructions
HOW TO SEW ANGEL DOLL
- Prepare Template:
Download the Angel pattern in a pdf document and print it with your printer.
Feed the letter-size paper into your printer and print the pattern without setting any scale on the printing.{the pdf download will either open in a new tab or open a small window asking you to save it as a file. If you can’t find the saved file on your computer, the default folder usually is in “/downloads”}
{If you can’t download the pdf pattern, probably you don’t have an acrobat reader, download the latest version for free, here.}
- Get Materials:
Get ready all the materials required to sew an angel.
If you can’t find a ready-made halo, you can always wind one yourself by using gold color aluminum wire.
Cut the paper pattern out after you have printed it out.
- Sew Doll Head:
Fold the skin color fabric into halve with the right side together.
Trace the head pattern on it.
Sew along the traced line except for the bottom line. Cut out the head pattern from the fabric with 1/4″ seam allowance.
Clip curve on the seam allowance.
Turn the fabric right side out by using a pair of tweezers since the opening is quite small.
Smooth out the seam.
Press with iron so that the fabric is straight and smooth.
Draw the facial on the head with a fine tip brush. Practice on the stash fabric before the actual work on the angel face.
Be it a big eye timid angel, sleeping angel, caroling angel, smiling angel, give each angel a different expression to personalize their character.
Fill the eyeball with black and add some white sports to make the eyes “sparkle”.
Dab the cheeks with a blusher or pink stamp pad ink.
Set it aside to let the paint dry.
Heat set the paint with a warm iron or as per fabric paint instruction.
- Sew Doll Body:
Cut the skirt and base pattern out from the fabric with 1/4″ seam allowance.
Add a ric-rac or lace by top-stitching them on the skirt. You may add more if the skirt fabric is plain.
Add lace trim on the skirt hem, fold the lace end in on the seam line. Topstitch to the folded hem.
Baste the lace to the top so it won’t get stitch-up when you sew the base at the bottom of the skirt.
Sew base to the bottom, be careful not to catch the lace on the sewing.
Turn the skirt right-side out from the top opening with a pair of tweezers.
Remove the basting stitches on the lace.
Turn the skirt right-side out from the top opening with a pair of tweezers.
Remove the basting stitches on the lace.
- Stuff:
Stuff the head and skirt with poly-fill by using a pair of tweezers.
- Assemble:
Insert the neck of the angel head into the skirt’s top opening.
Sew then together with slip stitches.
- Doll Hair:
Roll 2 bunches of fur yarn with fingers to make hair for the angel.
The back part of the head is shorter, roll a smaller bunch.
The side part of the hair is longer, measure from side to side.
Sew the back bunch of hair to the back center-top of the angel head.
Sew the center of the side bunch of hair to the center top of the angel head.
Make a few stitches around the head to catch the hair securely.
Trim hair if needed.
- Tie a ribbon bow on the neck of the angel, make a few stitches to secure it.
- Angel Wings:
Fold the white fur into half. You can use felt if you can’t find white fur.
Trace the wing pattern in the wrong side of the fur.
Sew along the seam line except the opening. Allow a wider opening if using fur.
Cut wing out with 1/4″ seam allowance, clip curve.
Turn the wing right-side-out from the opening by using tweezers.
Stitch-up the opening.
Sew to join both wings together at the middle.
Sew to attach the wings to the back of the angel.
- Halo:
Attach halo to the angel either by sewing it on or gluing it with permanent adhesive.
Sew a string loop to the head if you plan to hang the angel on your Christmas tree.
- A complete angel for your Christmas…… May She brings love, joy, and peace to you and your family.
Notes
Seam Allowance: 1/4″. Add 1/4" seam allowance to the pattern.
Rosy
Sunday 30th of August 2015
Cute tuto,Thks 4sharing.hug n kisses
Callee
Sunday 21st of July 2013
I love it. I think I will start making some for Christmas gifts for my daycare kids!! I'll put the name of my daycare,and date on the bottom of it! Thank-you so much
doro K.
Monday 19th of December 2011
beautiful! i love this cute smiling face!
I linked to your tutorial on my blog - thanks for sharing!
doro K.
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Monday 19th of December 2011
beautiful! love it. thanks for sharing.
Yvonne Carrillo Figueroa via Facebook
Thursday 15th of December 2011
Toooo CUTE!!! Love it!!