A beaded doll is very much what is sounds like. Well, maybe not exactly, the literally definition of a beaded doll is merely a doll only made of beads. A beaded doll is on the other hand not completely and only made out of beads, but the doll’s clothes are! Beaded dolls along with and other bead knitted toys (they are not only used as toys but can be made in the purpose of decoration or items to collect), are very popular to knit today. To create your own beaded doll you can, depending on how much experience of bead knitting you’ve got and for how long you’ve been bead knitting, decide to use bead knitting patterns or knit free handed. A beaded doll itself isn’t too difficult to success in making, but as it is with every stitch work with beads, only you yourself can decide how much time and effort you’re going to spend on it. Even the most simple beaded doll can be made very advanced by adding different knitting steps in the process and even more details to the planned form of the doll’s clothing.
When creating a beaded doll, you need some knitting beads and other things; bead knitting needles, bead knitting patterns (if you want and need those), a calm place to knit in and time, patience and a good will! On the wide range of Internet knitting blogs, you can find lots of inspiration, bead knitting patterns and information on how you make your first, beautiful beaded doll. If you don’t know how to read knitting patterns, a good thing to do before starting out on all the projects you’re planning to do, is to buy a bead knitting book. In books on bead knitting or regular knitting you are often given an easily read explanation on bead knitting patterns, how you’re supposed to read and understand all this new terminology and complicated new words. When you feel that you’ve got a grasp on what bead knitting is all about and how you understand the most basic bead knitting patterns, then you can slowly and carefully begin to to your fist little beaded doll. If you haven’t got enough knowledge about the basics in bead knitting, you will just start with a beaded doll, make mistakes and fail and finally get so irritated and tired on this thing that never works out that you’ll loose all the joy and fun with bead knitting. And we wouldn’t want that!
So take your time and get a hold on the basics before you start and everything will be so much more easy and fun! Beaded dolls are usually rather small, only a few inches high. But of course there are variants to this. Since the size is small, you create a beaded doll pretty quickly and the need of material isn’t too high. Use many different bright colors to get the best effects on your beaded doll’s clothes. It’s also popular to give every beaded doll its own theme; for example you can make one with Spanish colors and clothes; yellow and red, flowers in the hair, and curvy forms.