My 6 Favorite Felt Doll Making Books

#1 Sew Dolled Up by Boutique Sha

This book is great for beginners and has a lot of variety in the kinds of dolls you can make. These dolls are also highly customizable. Each set of dolls has their own huge wardrobe.

Link to book on Amazon: Sew Dolled Up: Make Felt Dolls and Their Fun, Fashionable Wardrobes with Fabric Scraps and Easy Hand Sewing https://a.co/d/9Elzpca

#2 Tiny Felt Cuties and Creatures by Delilah Iris

Delilah Iris is a fellow doll maker on Etsy, and she makes the cutest mini felt animals! In her book she teaches you too how to make these tiny felt creatures and dolls.

Link to book on Amazon: Tiny Felt Cuties & Creatures: A step-by-step guide to handcrafting more than 12 felt miniatures--no machine required (Sew Cute!, 2) https://a.co/d/ivmvsL4

#3 Sew Your Own Dolls by Louise Kelly

The dolls in this book are darling, and fairly large for handmade dolls. These are good dolls for beginners, especially learning how to make the clothes because they all start from the same basic pattern and evolve from there.

Link to book on Amazon: Sew Your Own Dolls: 25 stylish dolls to make and personalize https://a.co/d/4KkewXT

#4 Sew Your Own Animal Dolls by Louise Kelly

Louise Kelly wrote another great book featuring felt dolls, this time of the anthropomorphic variety! Inside you'll find a collection of bears, foxes, cats, even a pug girl. And they are all very simple to make.

Link to book on Amazon: Sew Your Own Animal Dolls: 25 creative dolls to make and give https://a.co/d/8Cbk2gN

#5 Handmade Animal Dolls by Melissa Lowry

Speaking of animal dolls, this one is loaded with them. The book itself is written in a way that is helpful to the beginner sewist wishing to evolve his or her skills, with the easiest projects in the front, getting progressively more complicated, to the more difficult patterns towards the end of the book.

Link to book on Amazon: Handmade Animal Dolls: 20 Simple Sewing Patterns for Stylish Toys https://a.co/d/1GzWhnO

#6 My Felt Doll by Shelly Down

I can't recommend this book for beginner sewists highly enough. This is the book that got me started on my doll making journey. In the book, Shelly Down, also known as Gingermelon online, teaches you how to make the basic doll body and hair. From there she gives you a ton of options on how to dress and customize your doll. Not only are the dolls cute, but they make excellent gifts and her directions are written well enough that even someone who has never held a sewing needle in the hand can understand them.

Link to book on Amazon: My Felt Doll: Easy sewing patterns for wonderfully whimsical dolls https://a.co/d/78f4Eja

These are the six felt doll making books I recommend to new sewists. I also have some patterns in my Etsy shop that are perfect for beginners: the Pattern Doll and the Fashion Doll.

Link to my Etsy shop: https://luparisdolls.etsy.com