Paper Doll Wonderland Part 2!

You've waited - you've watched - and been oh so patient! Here's part 2 of the Paper Doll Wonderland.

So we've got our great dolls all ready and we've got our great paperdoll clothes fabric:

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Now what?

Loosely cut out the clothing you'll want. Leave the tabs on or cut them off - we did some of both. We choose not to make the shoes but you easily can following these same steps:

Now give your dresses a little backing - with some woven fusible interfacing (fusible only on one side this time). Use your iron and fuse it to the wrong side of your dress:

Then back your dresses with a lightweight fabric - use something that doesn't have a print so that it doesn't show through - Joyce used a cotton/lurex shimmery number. Her theory is - if you're going to give that little girl in your life some fun, fabulous frivolity - might as well make it shimmer and shine!

Okay - now get out your thin elastic and tack it with a few stitches on either side of the middle of your clothes - do the same to the shoes if you have chosen to make them too.

So it will look like this:

Here are the finished fronts of our dresses - I love the look of the tabs:

And here are the backs of our dollies with their dresses on:

And of-course - what you've really been waiting for - here are the girls in their pretty dresses from the front!!!

Enjoy! Be sure to check out our next Sew WOW issue where the dollie dress -complete with hidden pocket and dolls makes its debut!!!

From all of us here at Waechters - happy sewing!