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Button-Jointed Doll Tutorial
Published: 2010-04-23 02:46:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 67245; Favourites: 1406; Downloads: 1021
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Please do not use this tutorial/pattern to make money!!***DAILY DEVIATION?!***
Ok so I got up this morning and thought,
"Hm... Why are so many people favouriting this tutorial... Maybe someone's made a doll and they've linked back to me."
So I had a quick look through today's and yesterday's plushies - Nothing...
Then I got congratulated for a DD...
Some of my closer watches might remember me saying at the beginning of the year that as part of my New Year's resolution, I would try my best to get a DD.
Well, you can understand how exstatic I am about it 
Thank you so much for this, you've made my year
The button-jointed doll tutorial
TADAAAA!!Pattern pieces found here:
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Hopefully it's clear enough, as always, message me if you need any help
And as always, please let me know if you use this tutorial, I'd love to see what you make, and please put a link to my profile, or my tutorial on your deviation
Dolls I've made with this pattern:
Tutorial (c) to me!
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Comments: 269
Oh my god, I so have to give this a try!! ;A; It looks awesome!
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Thanks
I have to do three at the mo haha commissions and whatnot
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congrats for the DD! 
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you are very welcome, thank you for making it! ^^
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Awesome!! 
I think I'll have to have a go at doing this now! 
Thanks for the tutorial!
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Quick question!!!
Would some kind of marker be okay to draw a face if you can't find/use iron-on eyes???
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It'd probably only be advisable to use permanent markers, but make sure you practice on a scrap piece of the same material before you do it on the plush AND make sure it's fully dry before doing anything else
I wonder if you could put some clear nail varnish or something similar on top so the colour stays? Probably worth trying
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Good point. Thank you very much!!!
Oh and I have another question. To make a plushie, just one, how much felt cloth do you need to complete one? Probably less than one yard, right?
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Okay. Thanks for answering my questions!!!
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how cool!! I so want to try this!!
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wow. This is amazing... it has inspired me to make a plushie of my own.... although if I were to do it I'd probably have to make the limbs more stubby and the head bigger.
and maybe some button eyes.
Do you think making a t-shirt for one of these will impede arm movement?
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Nope, just stitch the sleeves of the t-shirt over the button on one side of the arm, just to make sure you don't cover up the hole in the arm... It sounds complicated... But I'll bring out a tutorial for it when I make my next one (which shouldn't be too long
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lol yeah, that sounds confusing... over the button but now the hole? lol
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This truly deserve to be in the Daily Deviation...
Thanks for the tutorial!
Put into mah faves! 
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YAY! Thank you very much!!
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Hehe I love making felt dolls! I always get stuck on the face but your tut here is pretty much how I do everything
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okay, steps 7-8-9. I really thought it was a vagina for a doll.
D:
but anyway, this is interesting, I've made voodoo dolls before, but this style is quite unique. grats!
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oh thank god I wasn't the only one. I stopped dead in my tracks while going through it when I got to step 8
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Haha, oh goodness, it it that bad?! Maybe I should change the pictures
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Lol, I thought the same
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LOL!! I was wondering if anyone would say that!! I thought it looked like a vagina too xD
And the picture of the arm looks like a penis
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I thought you would be the last person saying that
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Hahaha, I was just thinking when I submitted it "...Should this have a maturity warning?!"
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OMG!!!
NOW I HAVE TO MAKE ONE!!!
OR TWOOOOO
OR THREEEE
SQUEEEEE!!!
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Did you ever think of using another technique to button joint your dolls where you don't have to cut a slit into the arms and legs?
You sew everything, stuff it, pin the limbs on the body. Then you take a long needle with a strong thread, bring it throug one limb, then through the body, through the other limb, put a button onto the thread, and then go back through the limb and the body to come out at the startingpoint, where you put another button onto the thread. Pull both sides of the thread to fasten the limbs, tie some knots and bury the threadends in the body. (Does this make sense? I'm not good at explaining this now, as English isn't my mothertongue...)
Thereby the limbs can be stuffed at the shoulder-/hip-end too and you don't have a problem with the slit that could rip open.
Just my two cents^^
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Yep! In fact, the smaller versions I make are jointed this way
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I like this jointing method more, but it's a thing of the personal opinion of course - just wanted to add it^^
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