Saturday, June 4, 2022

Sew a Waldorf Garden Bed for Your Dolls

A finished photo of our 18" doll's Waldorf garden bed with veggies.

       Your dolls can pretend to plant and harvest veggies from this garden bed. What is a farm without a garden? Moms and older siblings can help younger ones sew this basic construction for a doll house or a farm camp

Supply List:

  • one regular size brown bath towel
  • scrap green fabric several inches larger than the circumference of your garden bed assembled
  • green embroidery floss
  • large needle (a curved needle if you have one on hand.)
  • stuffing 
Left, include a few baskets and lots of veggies with this toy.
Right, lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage and tiny clay turnips are
 tucked between the rows for play.

       I made this version of a garden bed by cutting lengths of a brown towel 3" wide, stuffing them with a soft cotton filler and sewing them shut. Then I whip stitched the terry cloth rolls together at the bottom edge of each roll. After that, I attached an additional green fabric bottom and edging using a strong embroidery floss, trapping the terry cloth rolls together inside of a soft fabric frame. You can make your garden bed any shape or size you wish; our's measures 12 x 24 inches, with an approximate depth of 2" to 3." I used nearly all of my brown terry cloth towel to make this project.

Left, the tops of our doll leeks peeking through the terry cloth soil. 
Right, see the embroidery stitched edges of the soft green frame.
This "frame" holds the garden bed together. 


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