One of the new dolls arrived nude, requiring clothing and shoes. After finding clothing for this 1950s baby and allowing her to borrow a pair of shoes from another doll, the other doll became shoeless. So what did I do? I made a pair of flat sandals using foam sheets. Here's what I did:
• First I traced the doll's foot onto a white foam sheet. I used this as a pattern for tracing the soles for both sandals by flipping it over to trace the sole for the other sandal.
• After tracing this three additional times using both yellow and white foam, I used a 1-inch wide x 2-1/2-inch long piece of white elastic to create the top of the sandal.
• The elastic was stapled to the undersurface of the white foam on both sides, allowing enough space for the doll's foot to fit between the elastic and the white foam.
• Next, I glued the yellow foam to the bottom of the white foam using Aleene's Tacky Glue.
• Paper clips and paper clamps were used to hold the two pieces of foam in place while the glue dried.
• I repeated these steps to create the other sandal.
Lil Miss Make-Up, (an inherited doll from my daughter's childhood collection), who unselfishly gave up her shoes, now has sandals to match her yellow and white pants outfit.
Yesterday was, indeed a dolly good day.
Nice tutorial, Debbie! Good to have for shoeless dolls who cannot fit standard shoes.
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Her shoes are so cute! You are very creative!
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