Creating A Doll Outfit from Stuffed Animals

You can create your own doll clothes easily from stuffed animals. Makes perfect outfits for your dolls for holiday displays. This one is for a bunny for Easter. I found the stuffed bunny at Dollar Tree for $1. It will fit a 12" doll. If you cut the feet off of the stuffed animal then it will fit taller dolls but be shorter on them.

1. Open up the back seam with a seam ripper and take all the stuffing out.
2. I took the stuffed animal's head off by rippng out the neck seam. You now have the body and head separate. See photo below.

3.  Cut just the face out of the bunny head or stuffed animal head. Shown below with the face cut out. Discard the face.

 4. Sew bias tape around the face opening and around the bottom of the head.
5.  Add Velcro or snap at the neck line to hold the new hood on the doll.
6. Sew bias tape around the neck edge of the bunny body. You can also turn under and hem if you would rather do that.
7. Sew velcro or snaps on the back.
8. Open up the hand are at the end so the doll's hands can come through.
9. I left the opening unfinished. But you can hand sew a hem in the hand opening if you want. Dress your doll and you have an adorable animal costume for it.