Traditional 11 inch Waldorf Doll with pinched knees

In my last post, I had a Waldorf doll head in search of a body. This week I had a body in search of a head! I had just enough fabric in this color doll skin to make her a matching head. In fact, I had to add a strip of fabric to the neck pouch to make it long enough so I could close it up tightly. But that’s in the doll’s torso, so I hadn’t hadn’t just told you, nobody would ever know i did that!

This time I decided to “pinch” the doll’s legs to give her knees. It’s just a matter of running a double-threaded needle thorough the top area of the leg and after a two passes, pulling the thread taut. Then run the needle and thread back and forth a couple more times to strengthen it and take a couple tiny stitches to keep it secure. Finally run the needle and thread down the leg and out, and pulling tightly and cut the thread near the doll skin. The thread’s end will disappear back into the doll’s leg. (This same technique in used to “bury” thread in quilting!

Doll’s going to little girls need jammies. So here is this little one, sitting quietly in her chair in the garden, all ready for a bedtime story.