This is probably the simplest method I have ever used to make a doll sofa. Essentially, this style of sofa is made by upholstering a box and attaching one large stuffed pillow to the top with hot glue. Depending upon the materials used, this doll seating can be made to look formal or informal. In this example, I used a patchwork quilt top for the back and sides of the sofa and covered the bottom with a soft navy wool. I would describe this look to be kind of a"Bohemian Patchwork Design."
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Little Chelsea and Friends Dolls romp on the sofa with their pet dog, Beanie. Next to them is a bolster pillow with added floral tatting applied to each end. I used tatting scraps from an old recycled sweater for this decorative application. But you can find many free tatting pattern |
Supply List:
- fabric scraps cut up into small squares
- needle and threads
- lace and lacy needlework scraps
- cotton batting - both a sheet and stuffing
- solid colored fabric for sofa's seat
- cardboard box
- hot glue and hot glue gun
- masking tape
- decorative buttons
- four beads for sofa feet or a smaller box
- tacky white glue
- faux wood grain paper
- Wrap a small box of your own choice with a sheet of cotton batting. Use a bit of hot glue to hold the sheet in place so that it doesn't move while you are folding and tucking fabric around the box on top of the batting.
- After wrapping the bottom of the "couch" with fabric and tacking it down with hot glue, use a threaded needle with matching thread to neatly sew the sides and corners together around the box. I used an invisible stitch to hide my stitches.
- To make the upper cushion of our sofa, cut 1"x1" squares of fabric and sew these back together, matching up the sides and corners to create an overall pleasing checkered, patchwork rectangle measuring the length and two sides of your wrapped box.
- Fold and sew the right sides together down the length of the fabric and across one shorter end.
- Turn the fabric inside out and stuff with cotton batting.
- Turn inside 1/4" of the remaining short end and sew the last opening closed using a whip stitch.
- You may add details to the patchwork sofa cushion such as buttons or embroidery stitching.
- Now hot glue the patchwork pillow top to the top of the upholstered sofa box in a "C" shape around the two shorter ends and along one long side of the box.
- I then attached a smaller cardboard box to the bottom of the doll sofa to act as the footed section of upholstered sofa.
- I glued a wood grained paper to the outside edge of the box. You may choose to glue on beads for the feet of the sofa instead. The box sofa may not need the added height given by gluing on "feet"; this is a matter of preference.
- You can make additional small, decorative pillows using scrap fabrics and laces. I used a velvety purple fabric scrap for one pillow adding a turquoise colored button and a bit of lace for accents.
- Then I cut a tiny rectangular piece of green faux fur and sew together the two shorter ends. Turning this inside out, stuffing and sewing two coin shaped ends to either side of this tiny tube, in order to finish the tiny, doll sized bolster pillow.
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| Left patchwork squares, Center, quilt blocks hand sewn together, Right the backside of patchwork. |
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| Patchwork details, buttons and stitching. |
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| The doll sized bolster pillow in progressive steps. |
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| Left the front of the sofa with pillows, Center, the backside of the couch, Right without pillows. |
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| Our dolls have fun playing on their new quilted doll sofa. |
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