Rosie Meyer Designs

Industrial Designer

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Rosie Meyer Designs

Industrial Designer

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dolls and patterning

dolls and patterning

Recreating scale models of real life details. Hand sewn and patterned.

One of the things I like to do is challenge myself with different kinds of projects. Although working with paper has been my recent favorite, sewing and small-scale, detail oriented work always comes back into my projects. This time? Dollmaking.

I wanted to choose an outfit to replicate to the best of my abilities, the more intricate the better. For this project, I chose Nandor from the dark comedy TV show What We Do In The Shadows. Nandor, being a 757 year old vampire from the Ottoman Empi

I have made and worked with patterns before through cosplay and fashion projects, so translating to doll clothing wasn’t too much of a stretch. I included seam allowance in all of my patterns.

After planning out the patterns, I made a test run in white fabric to see if they would fit my doll base.

I was glad I did this, there were a few changes to the shirt and the cape that definitely needed adjusting. This way I could get the correct length of the sleeves and really exaggerate the length of the cape.

My ideal design was to make the shirt clasps out of the same material as the shirt, complete with small metal loops to emulate the buckles, but I had a lot of issues attaching the fabric to itself. It was too small of a detail to hand-sew, but no gl

The details were the most fun and also the most frustrating part of the project. I ended up making two capes of the final fabric, since I figured out how to get a cleaner, straighter seam due to how the gold inner lining was folded out. Then I hand-

All in all, I was happy with how this came out. I look forward to doing more dollmaking, more detail oriented sewing projects, and learning the craft more and more as I go.

All paperart dolls and patterning bonded paper

paperart dolls and patterning bonded paper