According to the book of Nadezhda Gensitskaya. The book is very good, but the technique is “shoe”, with pulling on the pads. As a result of various attempts, I realized that it’s difficult for me and not very fascinating.
But I wanted to make shoes. I remembered how I sewed dance slippers for my daughter and went this way.
Puppet master class. Getting started. To begin with, we will sew such simple, red (or white) slippers.
The pattern will be like this. If after scanning, the insole matches the size of the foot, then shoes made according to this pattern should be suitable for your doll. If the insole is small, you need to enlarge the entire pattern to scale until the insole size matches the doll’s foot size. If the insole is large, reduce. 
Two “small” insoles from rubber and four “large” ones from any cotton fabric are needed.
“Small” insoles should be exactly the size of the foot. "Large", + allowance of 0.5 cm. 
We sew the “small” rubber insoles between the two cotton insoles and sew the “big” one on these blanks. From the red (main) fabric 
We cut the upper part of the shoe out of the main red fabric. Pattern of the upper part, immediately with allowances for seams. If the shoes are made of leather, then you can immediately sew the top to the insole. If from taffeta, as in our case, the top must be “planted” on the lining. As a pad, I use lining knitwear. We add two parts and sew the inner contour, turn it out. 
Sew the details of the top along the heel line. It turns out two blanks of slippers, without a sole.
We apply the top to the sole. Make sure that the red parts are facing inward. "Face" to each other. Sew.
The seam fastening the top with the sole should gently bend around the small rubber insole. Do not hook the rubber insole with a seam. TURN OUT!
THE SHOE IS READY! Shoes can be decorated to your liking. Good luck
From this article, cute needlewomen learn how to make shoes for dolls for spring and autumn of different sizes on their own. This season was not chosen by chance. It includes all the variety of shoes. To the spring-autumn shoes can be attributed shoes and sneakers, and boots, and boots. She is perfect for most outfits in the wardrobe of your dolls. This is where you can give your imagination a walk and make shoes for the doll with your own hands.
Making shoes is a snap. This does not require any special skills, but only a desire and a little patience to make it work. Shoes can be made of various materials: from fabric, from paper, from felt, from yarn.
Here is an interesting video about the types of shoes for dolls:
Example for Tilda
You may have already had the opportunity to see these wonderful dolls. But here are some facts about the Tilds.
These dolls are not an ordinary toy, but rather part of the interior decor. Someone may say that they are a kind of talismans. But they definitely allow you to return to childhood to their owners and needlewomen who create cute dolls. In general, this is a great gift for any occasion. Especially if you do it yourself, and also dress up the doll and put on shoes.
Making shoes for a doll is not difficult at all, and you can see for yourself. Haste in this lesson is useless.
To begin the process, we take: glue, scissors, a ballpoint pen, patterns (how can we do without them), material for the front side, material to seal the front part, material to make the sole, needle, thread to match the color of the front part.
The pattern in our case is simple and clear:
Step 1. It is necessary to transfer the pattern “Top” to the material intended for compaction. For example, we used stiff faux leather, and you can choose another material. Using the same pattern, we draw lines on the front material.
Step 2. Cut out the contours of the details of the future product. It’s better to cut the “Top” part a bit with a margin than to then start all over again if there is not enough length.
Step 3. We take the glue to stick the seal to the material of the front part. Try to distribute the glue evenly, this will facilitate the process in the future.
Step 4. Need to stitch the details. To do this, we will use an overcast seam. Note: if sewing in one thread, the seam will be more accurate. Having prepared the needle with the thread, we hold the sole with the inner side towards us, visually mark the middle of the sock and insert the needle into this place, at a distance of one and a half or two millimeters from the edge. For simplicity, you can mark the middle at the time of applying the pattern. We pull the thread with the needle.
Step 4. Now you need to attach the “Top” so that the midpoints coincide.
Step 5. Now we introduce the needle at the same point as point 4, start the thread behind the needle and take it to the left. Then pull out the needle and tighten the thread.
Step 6. Next to the left we enter the needle, not forgetting to retreat two millimeters, we also wind the thread behind the needle and take it to the left, now we just need to pull it out and pull it up. Everything is simple. It is only necessary to ensure that the edges of the parts coincide, and make approximately the same distance between the loops.
This is how it looks:
Step 7. You need to stop, reaching the middle of the heel. Now you can trim the excess part of the material and fasten the thread from the inside. Excellent!
Now you need to repeat these steps, just move to the right. And remember, we should have a pair of shoes.
Step 8. Reaching the heel, this time we do not fix the thread, because we will sew the heel. Something like this should look like this:
Step 9. Try on the shoe on the doll’s leg. If she came up and you like everything, we proceed to create a second shoe. As a result, we get such a cute pair:
That's all. If you like this look of shoes, then you have achieved the result. Or you can decorate the shoes with beads or applique. This master class can be used in the future. Following the instructions and changing the fabric and details for decoration, you can make several pairs of shoes and, possibly, give one of them to your friends doll fans.
For other dolls
According to the same principle, you can make shoes for a millipede. Or you can crochet very well and it will be easier for you to make shoes this way. Then we offer you some videos for inspiration:
The last video shows how to make papier-mâché shoes. She looks so realistic. Dolls can sometimes be envied, because their shoes are easy to make at home. By this principle, you can make several pairs for Barbie.
It will also be great if you decide to make shoes for the beautiful doll-doll from foamiran. This, as it turned out, is a very convenient material to use. The color palette allows you to make shoes for any outfit. And the non-toxicity of the material is a big plus in the list of its advantages.
Crochet shoes
It is very good if among your strengths there is also the ability to wield a crochet and do wonderful things from yarn. It is worth noting that shoes for dolls can be connected. Especially convenient this method may seem to owners of dolls of large sizes. In this case, the shoes for them fit almost the same way as shoes for small children.
Below is a diagram of these wonderful shoes and legend.
Video on the topic of the article
A selection of videos for inspiration:
Dolls have been a favorite hobby of most girls at all times. They can be not only a children's toy, but also an original interior decoration. Nowadays, even famous designer houses are engaged in the production of clothes and shoes for toy fashionistas. Since this is mainly, such shoes will be expensive. You can make shoes for the doll yourself from a wide variety of materials.
There are several ways to make shoes for a doll with your own hands. The simplest and most common of them is to glue shoes or sandals. More experienced craftswomen can sew doll accessories. In this way, high boots are made. Knitted slippers or booties for dolls "babies" can be crocheted or knitting.
Another fairly simple solution is to draw the shoes on the legs of the doll with acrylic paints. This method does not restrict neither in materials, nor in color, nor in the style of shoes.
However, there is one significant drawback - such shoes are made forever without the ability to take them off.
Materials for shoes can be very different:
- denim or any dense fabric;
- soft fleece;
- satin and lace;
- leatherette;
- thin leather or suede;
- for the sole - cardboard, thick leather, cork.
For decoration, you can use thin shoelaces, beads and beads, eyelets and sequins. Eyelets can be used plastic or metal. They are installed on the holes in the material through which the laces will stretch. The choice of materials for sewing and decorating doll shoes can be limited only by the manufacturer’s imagination.
To make shoes for the doll with your own hands, you will need tools for work:
- needles with thread;
- centimeter tape and ruler;
- sewing machine;
- scissors;
- high-quality glue;
- knife for skin and dermatin;
- acrylic paints and brushes;
- device for installing eyelets.
Create Pattern
To make shoes for the doll, you can download and print ready-made patterns. Experienced needlewomen can make patterns of boots for the doll with their own hands. To do this, it is important to have a clear idea of \u200b\u200bhow the finished shoes will look. The model is developed taking into account the whole suit.
If the image of the doll is based on a certain historical period, you can search for information in the relevant literature.
Workshop on building shoe patterns for dolls:
- The very first step in the manufacture of any shoe pattern is to build the contour of the sole. To do this, the doll’s leg is applied to a sheet of paper and gently outlined.
- If you plan to make model shoes, the sock is finished.
- Further, the sole pattern slightly narrows in three places: near the thumb, in the lifting zone and on the widest part of the foot. So the finished shoes will be better fit to the leg.
- To build the upper part, measure the doll’s foot with a centimeter tape: the volume of the foot, the height of the backdrop, the height of the product in front.
- It is very important to remember about allowances for seams - they leave a few millimeters.
With the help of a ready-made pattern, it will be possible to create a wide variety of models.
Doll sneakers
The pattern of these shoes can be done independently. The downloaded ready-made pattern can be transferred to a Word document and there to ensure that the value matches the size of the doll’s leg. To do this, the length of the foot is pre-measured with a ruler or tape. Be sure to make allowances of 5 mm on all sides.
The insole pattern can be done independently if you circle the foot with pencil on paper and cut it out.
To make a sneaker you will need:
The sole of this model is made of three layers of materials. The lower part is cut out of rubber, a layer of corrugated cardboard is glued to it. An insole of any soft fabric is placed on top, it is possible in the color of all shoes.
When the sole is ready, the remaining details are fixed to it. They can be attached with pins.
Such a workpiece should be easily worn on the leg.
A sock made of leatherette is sewn onto the upper part of the shoes or sneaker. The top and sides are sewn on a typewriter. Holes for laces are pierced and eyelets are inserted. Both upper parts are pinned to the sole with pins and sewn by hand to assemble the entire structure.
Places where the sole and the upper part are sewn together are sealed with a dense cotton tape or linen elastic band. You can temporarily fix the tape with pins until the glue dries.
Colored laces stretch into the finished sneakers.
Sandals for Barbie
Making shoes for Barbie with your own hands will not be difficult. As with any shoe, the first step is to outline the outline of the foot. First, this is done on paper, and then transferred to thick cardboard. If necessary, you can more clearly draw an elongated toe of sandals or shoes.
Glued onto a cardboard base the cloth.The resulting part is bent in the shape of the foot. On the upper part at the junction with the sole allowances and small incisions are made over the entire length. This will allow the upper part to be glued to the sole. To connect these parts, the upper part is applied to the leg and bent under the foot. The sole detail is glued from below.
Similarly, the backdrop is cut out and glued in the right place. The back is cut immediately with a strap on which the loop for the fastener cuts.
Of wooden skewers heels can be cut out and glued to the sole of the sandals. To do this, a piece of the skewer is glued with the same fabric from which all shoes are made. Shoes for Barbie are ready.
Monster High Shoes
Monster High is one of the favorite girls' toys. You can make boots for dolls from this series on the same principle as for Barbie. For example, it can be high boots made of elastic material.
The sequence of actions will be as follows:
Paola Reina Boots
For dolls of Paol Rein format, you can sew low simple boots. The product is designed for a toy from 32 to 34 cm tall. Such shoes will be easily removed from the shoe and from the doll’s foot. The general principle of work is that the pattern of parts must be made along the transverse line, and not along the shared line. Finished shoes will then stretch wide, and it will be much easier to take off.
To work, you will need:
- leatherette;
- thick cardboard with a thickness of 1.2-1.4 mm;
- eyelets - 4 pieces;
- linoleum or rubber for the sole;
- foamiran or rubber strips for prevention with a size of 6x160 mm - 2 pieces;
- adhesive Moment for shoes;
- super moment glue.
All details will be cut out of leatherette, cardboard and plantar material.
The operation algorithm should be as follows:
Shoes for Paola is ready. Before use, it is important to allow the glue to dry thoroughly. It remains to put the insole made of leather substitute inside, and you can put on boots on your pet.
Dear needlewomen, if you have ever wondered how to sew beautiful and fashionable shoes for dolls yourself, then our selection of master classes and patterns for you!
We offer to view a small video about what doll shoes are:
Master class from Tatyana Ilicheva: SHOES FOR DOLL
Materials: thick fabric (cotton, jeans), leatherette, corrugated cardboard, eyelets for lace holes, rubber (from old or disposable shoes) or another canvas for soles, linen or cotton dense tape, cords.
Pattern and tailoring. Patterns are quite simple and taken on the Internet. You can copy this image into a Word document and there already, by enlarging or reducing the image, fit the pattern to the foot of your doll. To determine the size of the pattern, measure the length of the doll’s foot with a ruler. For example, you get a length of 5 cm, add an allowance of 1 cm to them, so the insole pattern should be 6 cm long.
By the way, you can create an insole pattern yourself. Put the doll’s leg on the paper and circle the foot with a pencil. To the resulting projection of the foot, add 5mm of allowances on all sides around the perimeter and circle the resulting insole.
Doll sneakers pattern
The insole for these sneakers is made triple: the bottom of the insole is made from the sole of disposable slippers, after the insole is glued from thick cellular cardboard, the base is 5-7 mm, and the third finishing insole is cut from any material, for example, from fabric to tone and put into finished shoes .
When the insole is ready, the remaining parts are collected on it, everything can be fixed with pins. As a result, everything should turn out symmetrically and easily put on the doll’s leg.
We prepare the details of the top for connection to the insole. We sew a sock from leatherette, we build off the top and sides, we pierce holes with grommets. Next, we pin both parts on the insole and sew future sneakers directly inside the cardboard insole manually, while connecting the entire structure.
And in the end, we glue the places for sewing parts to the insole with a white rubber band, pulling it a little, and fixing it with pins until everything is thoroughly dry.
Pattern shoes booties for dolls from Janja (Ustvarjalnica Jaal)
Pattern of shoes-booties for a doll 
MK: shoes for dolls
MK + pattern: boots for large and medium dolls
Leatherette boots for doll 
MK from Elena Kononova: miniature shoes for toys or dolls
Materials:
- material for the top of the boots (faux leather, felt or genuine leather); in the photo - boots made of artificial leather;
- lining material (the second layer of the upper parts of the shoe), in the photo - thin felt. If you select a dense top material and it will keep its shape, then you can do without a lining;
- cardboard for insoles;
- material for soles (thick corrugated cardboard, or cardboard glued from several cellular layers, thick leather, rubber sheet);
- glue Moment "Rubber";
Pattern shoes for dolls from Elena Kononova
The allowances have already been given for the pattern, the sole length is 4 cm. You can copy this image into a Word document and there, by enlarging or reducing the image, fit the pattern to the foot of your doll. If you will make shoes on a textile lining, then do not forget to make allowances for stitching shoe parts. After we sew and twist the details, you need to glue the lining to the top material with glue Moment.
First of all, you need to cut the details of the felt lining without allowances. If you will make a curly edge, as in microns, then do not forget to add 2-3 mm for cropping.
Now you need to glue the underside of the lining with glue, dry and fold the top material with it, press it down. So everything should stick tightly and permanently. Next, you need to cut the top material along the lining, adding about 7 mm to the bottom of the part.
From the bottom, along the sewn-in edge, you need to make notches that should not reach the lining 1-2 mm.
Now it is already necessary to impose the berets details on the details of the vamp and fasten them with several stitches, make a fastening.
It is necessary to coat the edges of the insoles and the sewn-in edge with rubber glue, then dry it.
Extra folds at the edge can be cut.
Cut out the sole and mini-heel by adding an allowance of 2-3 mm around the insole. Next, you need to lubricate the sole and the workpiece with a moment, dry and fasten.
When everything dries, with sandpaper you need to align the edges of the sole, tinted with paint edges. You also need to cut a current strip of top material for the finishing welt.
Bunny warrior. By the way, such bunnies can be presented to colleagues in quality.
For sewing such shoes for dolls prepare:
Skin of the desired color;
Lining fabric (e.g. jeans);
Laces (about a meter long);
Thin tape;
Rubber for the sole with a tread (can be bought at a shoe store);
Plain cardboard for making insoles (thin!);
Clay "Moment" - Universal or Crystal;
Eyelets (small rings for holes for shoelaces);
Punch and flaring for installing eyelets;
Scissors (large and small).
Shoes for dolls master class:
1. We start with a printout of the pattern. But keep in mind that the pattern still needs to be customized for a specific toy. You may have different tissue, as well as the density of the padding, the thickness of the skin in the end. Therefore, remember to try on before you cut and sew. To rip the skin, without spoiling the appearance, will not work.
Shoes for dolls pattern:
2. Of course, first you need to sew the legs of our toys. I have a bunny. Here are the details:
3. When stitching, leave a hole for filling. I will not paint legs for sewing, it's simple. Try on and cut out a felt from felt or thick felt. You can chamfer - cut the edge at a slight angle. Compare: in the photo of one liner, the bevel is removed, the other does not.
4. Next, glue our tight little liners from the inside of the legs to the sole with glue (preferably Crystal Moment glue). I prefer felt to give stability to the legs compared to cardboard, as it will survive the wash well if necessary.
6. Finally, we got to sewing shoes, because the master class is called "how to sew shoes for dolls!"
With a special marker for the skin we translate the pattern, cut it out.
7. First sew the tucks on the toes. After - cut them and glue them. It is better to glue the skin like this: smeared, waited, again smeared and glued. Here is a photo from the inside: 
8. Next, you need to cut and glue the lining. Be careful, the lining is smaller and must be applied as shown in the photo. The place of the hem should be clean. Do not overdo it with glue. But, if you "do not add", it may not stick.
10. Now the sewing machine is useful.)) Very carefully along the edge, stitch the backdrop from A to A1. Fill holes and install eyelets for strings.
11. It's time to try on. If everything suits you, we look approximately at how much you need to leave an allowance when stitching. Tucks should be centered. In this case, you can sew a sock to the backdrop. Try again at the end.
12. When the toe and back are assembled without pulling out the leg, measure the insole (pattern). She should not sit back to back, but with gaps of 1-2 mm. Otherwise, the edge of the boot will look like a duck's beak. Is everything sitting fine? Then draw with a marker the line of bending and cutting the cloves.
13. We make insoles from plump cardboard and glue the inside with a cloth (jeans).
14. Cut the cloves with small scissors and paste the insole.
15. The turn has reached the sole. Try on a pattern and, if necessary, customize. The sole will be made of rubber with a tread. We also glue in two stages (spread over - dried up - spread over - pressed) Immediately (!) Remove excess glue!
16. Cut a lace of 90 cm in half, and wrap the cut edge with tape so that it does not crumble.
17. It remains to glue the tongue (but you can sew howl earlier), lace up and let the boots dry for about 6 hours.
All, ready. It's time to shoe our eared!
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