Since
summer is here I know a lot of you are going to go camping and I
figure the dolls in the dollhouse might enjoy a camping trip too. I
thought I would help them out and make some sleeping bags for our
project this week.
I
used a sewing machine for this project but if you don't have one you
could do this with hand sewing or possibly by gluing the seams.
I
had to dig out an old one I had glued into a display to help me
remember how I make these since it has been a couple of years since I
last made them.
The
main part of the sleeping bag is made up of 2 pieces of fabric each
cut 6” by 6 ½” and a filler piece of either quilt batting or
fleece cut 5 ½” by 6”. You will also need 2 pieces of narrow
elastic (1/8”) that are 4 ½” long.
After
sewing you will need to have something to act as a zipper. I used DMC
floss in a metallic gold color. You could certainly use a different
color if you want you zipper to be a different color. This is cut
about 24” long to give plenty to work with.
Now
I talked about making this in 1/6th scale on the video. I
am pretty sure that Barbie and Ken and the rest of the gang enjoy
camping too so here are the changes.
Cut
the fabric pieces 12” by 13”. Cut the filler piece 11” by 12”.
For the elastic I would cut that about 8”.
For
the “zipper” I think I would look for an 1/8” wide ribbon or
braid, I know it comes in gold and many colors. You will have to be
very careful to not twist the ribbon like I was able to get away with
on the embroidery floss, you will have to glue the flat side together
and then be much more careful when gluing it onto the sleeping bag.
You will need about 40” of the ribbon I think. Try it against the
bag before you cut to be sure.
I
first came up with this design for a swap on one of my groups years
ago. We were doing a camping swap and I wanted the bags to be able to
be used rolled up or staged with a doll sleeping it them since I had
no idea what the different people were going to be doing. I found
several directions out there for bags either one way or the other but
not that could be displayed either way. So I ended up combining the
directions that I found to make one bag that can be displayed either
way.
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