When I first started creating dolls in 2019, I had the hardest time making hands that didn’t look like deformed props for a horror movie. My wrapping skills were not up to par, and trying to felt around wires everywhere left me with a lumpy mess, plus, no two hands ever looked alike.
I wanted hands that could help show my doll’s personality, but instead, I’d hide them somehow, so it would be harder to see what they really looked like. I’m also The Queen of Bent and Broken Needles, (hard to confess but keeping it real.) So I needed to figure out a way to make hands that I could felt easily with less wire, be identical, and moveable down to each finger joint.
Through trial and error, I designed a template that helped me create my doll’s hands the way I wanted, and thought it could be a useful tool for anyone else who dreads and battles the dastardly digits.
There is no ‘one size fits all’ for doll’s hands, so I developed a range of templates to help you make the tiniest fairy hands all the way up to a 2ft-tall Santa who needs to hand out gifts.
