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Published: 2006-02-02 14:01:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 74; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 5
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This a bit of the new doll I'm working on, the one with a Mardi Gras theme. I love the hands on this doll and am proud to show them off! I try to make the cloth hands as dainty as possible and well I feel that usually the fingers are too big. But these hands are turning out pretty much the way I like!!!Related content
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you have nice finger nails. and you create a lovely hand. you are like geppeto in pinocchio... one day the doll will become a real boy or girl!
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I have tried to make the hands from the patterns I bought from you but I always end up making the mitten style ones LOL, I just don't have what it takes to make such amazingly delicate little fingers.
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Awww geee, thank you Pixie!
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wow! how do you make cloth hands that small? they are beautiful!!!
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That's as small as I dare go too! I've practiced making them for years, and every now and then a pair of hands look really good! Thank you...
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are they hand stiched? how do you turn them? are they stuffed with batting?where are the seams? what are they made out of? is all that a trade secret? if so you don't need to answer. they are amazing! what do you paint the faces with? sry about all the 
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I sew them by machine, clip the curves and in between the fingers, add a little tacky glue to the small seam allowance between the fingers so they won't rip out when I turn them. I use a "hemostat" to reach up inside the fingers and grab hold of the inside and turn them right side out. I didn't use stuffing in these hands, I used fuzzy chenille stems, the fingers can be positioned like real fingers... I use plain old cotton fabric, non stretch.
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wow you are so smart!! chenille stems, that is so smart! thanks! is a hemostat tool that looks like a safetypin on a wire? i remember something like that from high school home ec. i can't wait to see this doll all done! 
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actually a hemostat looks like scissors, but they don't cut, they're more like a tweezer....
Thanks! but I learned the techniques from other dollmakers and just adapt them to the way I need to use them...
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cool! thanks! and you're welcome!
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