How to Make your own Ugly Dolls Hair Clips

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Ugly Dolls Hair Clips.

You can easily make your own ugly dolls hair clips at home. This article will hopefully inspire you to design your own versions for a favored child. Because they make up so quickly and cheaply, these ugly dolls hair clips are great for birthday party favors or stocking stuffers for little girls.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

felt
embroidery thread, needle
sewing scissors
fiber fill
small buttons
hair clips
cardboard & pencil
craft scissors
cutting board
xacto knife

Step 1

Ugly Dolls Materials.

Gather materials to make your own ugly dolls hair clips. Have a good selection of colored felt, and embroidery thread.

With a pencil, draw patterns freehand on cardboard until you're pleased with the design. Make a variety of shapes for the ugly dolls, allowing 2" height for each doll. Pencil in facial expressions on the cardboard patterns.
Step 2

Making ugly dolls patterns.

Cut out patterns outside the pencil lines with craft scissors. Create curvier ugly dolls hair clips using an xacto knife to accentuate the details as scissors may bend the cardboard patterns in certain areas.
Step 3

Cut felt pieces.

Trace cardboard pattern of each ugly dolls hair clip on two pieces of felt in the same color. Trace pattern with face side up and wrong side of pattern laying on the wrong side of felt piece.

Flip pattern over and trace the other side also on the wrong side of the felt. This method ensures you will have two pieces coming together as one all facing the same "direction".

Trace using a pencil, ball point pen, or you may find a plain piece of chalk will work well. Cut felt just outside traced lines. Consider the side of the felt with the pencil edges to be the inside of each ugly doll.
Step 4

Embroider ugly dolls faces.

Make your own ugly dolls hair clips with distinct personalities. Embroider ugly doll expressions on right side of felt, following the facial features already sketched on the patterns. Use 3-strands of thread by dividing the basic 6-strand skein in half.

With wrong sides together and starting at the bottom of the ugly dolls hair clips, begin straight stitching close to edge. Continue sewing.
Step 5

Stuff ugly dolls hair clips.

Leave opening at bottom of ugly doll hair clip large enough for your little finger, without cutting embroidery thread. Begin stuffing small amounts of fiber fill into the hair clip.

Start stuffing with little finger. Use the eraser end of a pencil to insert stuffing further. Continue until ugly dolls are full. Sew opening shut and tie off end of thread.
Step 6

Secure hair clips.

Select a hair clip for each of the ugly dolls. Using the same colored embroidery thread as was used to sew the seam on dolls, center hair clips and tack securely on the back of ugly dolls.
Step 7

Ugly Dolls Hair Clips.

Make your own ugly dolls hair clips as individual as you wish. Note the expressions are what give the ugly dolls their name, so it's hard to make a mistake. The uglier the better when you're making ugly dolls. Aren't they cute? :)

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ReuseItAll said

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on 4/6/2009 Wait til I show my kids!!! They are OBSESSED with Ugly Dolls. They've been collecting them for a few years and love to draw them!!! You are so clever!! Did you ever see my article on How to Make an Ugly Doll Costume that we made for our son?? There's a good laugh for ya!!