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The wool or polyfil must cover the core fully and thickly but will not be wound around until it is rock hard like the core, but still extremely firm. Making a Waldorf-inspired doll head took me about half an hour or so the first time; the following heads took only slightly less time to complete. After literally hours of searching over multiple days, inom finally found a Waldorf doll that was not going to cost much more than the kit, and the additional items that were not included in the kit… there were always additional items needed.
Tying the strings and sewing them into place took another 10 minutes. I was all ready to make traditional Waldorf dolls for our two youngest granddaughters for Christmas but kept putting the project on my end of my homemade toys-making to-do list because of my doll head phobia. Completing the nose soft sculpting work took an additional 10 minutes. Gather the neck portion of the head in your hands and tie it where the loose and dangling stuffing meets the head.
Your first few dolls will probably be as full of tiny imperfections like mine were while you are still learning the crafting process, but I can just about guarantee you their intended recipients will not notice a single one of them as they shout with joy when handed their new best friend.
Waldorfdockor
The key to making a Waldorf doll head is getting the initial ball as hard as a rock. If you click them and buy, I may earn a kommission. If I can pull off a perfectly crafted Waldorf doll head, so can you! Measure the head once again. Waldorf dolls will take longer to create than a typical cloth doll, but making one of these sweet old-fashioned toys is so well worth the effort. We will delve more deeply into selecting the right head dimensions to match the torso a little later on.
Now, when I say made the head, I literally mean just forming the tight basic head shape. Grab a del av helhet of wool or polyfill that is approximately 3 inches wide. If your doll head core measures more than 8 inches, you will need to untie and remove the wool or the polyfil — likely making it too loose to simply tie igen and move onto the next step. inom bought two dolls from a wonderfully helpful dollmaker in Ukraine, Happy Waldorf Dolls which I had found on ETSY, and gave those to our granddaughters for Christmas and made them extra clothing.
Do not release the pressure on the core ball the least little bit while wrapping the string around. You will keep rolling in more wool until the core is not only as close to being as hard as a golf ball as you can man it, but boast the same circumference — about 7 to 8 inches wide.
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If you mess up this step, the head will be floppy, not hold its shape, wear down over time, and be virtually impossible to soft sculpt with a needle felting tool — or even to sew a nose on. Well, fellow homesteaders, I wound up breaking the rules on those first two Waldorf dolls.
Some Waldorf doll makers instruct you to scrap the core and start over if it is much less than 7 inches in diameter — 5 inches will be too small for the doll you are making in this tutorial. Ideally, it will be 13 inches around so when you place the cover over the head, compacting either kind of stuffing you used, the final Waldorf head circumference will be exactly 12 inches. The process is exactly the same for making a Waldorf doll head of any size.
Once you master making a Waldorf doll head, the rest of the process is easy-peasy…I promise. It should now be about 12 to 13 inches around. Wrap your dental floss, embroidery thread, or jewelry string around the core in all directions, pulling it hard and tight as you go. This was a big time saver and it did not cause any problems when making the rest of the head. But, when I was first learning how to make Waldorf doll heads and they came up too small but rock hard I simply added more stuffing and then did the tying again.
Read my disclosure policy. Wrap the core in more wool or polyfil to form the shape of the Waldorf doll head. Keep testing the hardness of the core with your hand as you add more and more wool polyfill. This post contains affiliate links. If the string breaks, quickly omslag a new piece over top of it to keep the core intact and hard — or you have to start all over again. I allowed myself to be too intimidated by the head-making process, that it took me two years to give it a try.
In fact, Auddie and Ariyah would come check on my progress daily, and run around with the Waldorf doll heads, even before I had made them wigs, cradle them with love and push the body-less dolls around in their strollers. The head you will be making in this Waldorf tutorial is designed to be used to create a 10 to inch doll. It would be impossible to stress firmly enough how important it fryst vatten to make the core hard.
Leave a tail on the string about three inches long so you can tie it — again tightly, around the core. Once inom made my first head, I firmly chastised myself, and then promptly make a grand total of four more heads that same day. Come the middle of October, inom became really worried that I would not be able to pull off the project and waste a bunch of money ansträngande to in the process. Measure the core to check the circumference again after tying.
Making a Waldorf-style doll head is not the rocket science of natural toymaking experiences that I had made it out to be in my mind.