breakinglight11 | Making a ragdoll prop (Reply)

We need a ragdoll as a prop for the new Mrs. Hawking play, In the Bones, and I was having trouble finding one in a thrift store. I bought one that I thought might work, but it was actually a mostly porcelain ball-jointed doll that was too fragile for my purposes. So I took the doll's dress and bloomers and decided to make the body myself.

I sewed her a little tube torso from scraps, then stuffed the bloomers and stitched them onto the torso at the waist. I stuck this inside the dress, pulling just the top edge of it through the neck hole. Then I gathered more of the white scrap into a ball and sewed it onto that top edge pf the body to form the head. I stuffed more scrap into the sleeves and attached them at the cuffs to make hands.

For the face, I'm planning on button eyes, an embroidered mouth, and big thick yarn for hair. Getting the eyes on was as far as I got tonight, so I'll do the rest tomorrow. I'm liking how she's turning out.