Geisha dolls

Head of your Geisha doll

• Prepare your pieces of fabric.

• Pass the gathering thread all around the white circle, untill you have made a ball-shape.

• Insert the stuffing to make a ball.

• Pull it tight and tie a knot.

• Embroider the hair, the eyes and the mouth. You can use beads for the eyes if you wish. 

• Make the ribbon into a loop and attach it with several stitches behind the head.

Body of your geisha doll

• Mark a line in pencil on the back of the other piece of fabric right in the middle (5cm in).

• Fold the square in half along the diagonal to make a triangle.

• Sew halfway along each side (up to the mark on the back).

  

• Do the same for the opposite side (the two tips of the base of the triangle, along the fold).
• Turn the triangle inside out, to form the other points.
• Only sew one side, the fourth side needs to stay open.

NB : Try cutting the very end of the tips so they look neater when you turn them the right way out. 

• Turn the model inside out (so it is now the right way round). Make sure the pointed ends are fully out.
• Put a little bit of stuffing inside, underneath the stitching line, to make the body of the geisha doll.

• Put the head into the forth point, which should have no stuffing in it.

• Fold down the sides and sew closed.

  

• Fix in place with two hidden stitches.
• Bring each point in, beginning with the sides (the arms), then the bottom one (the body).

• Add a button, a little bell or a pearl for the finishing touch.