Patterns for a doll 34 cm paola reina. Paola Reina dress without shoulder seams. ✄Patterns for sundresses, dresses and tunics by Paola Reina
Hello girls!
Today I want to write an article about Spanish dolls Paola Reina(hereinafter referred to as Paola Reina or simply Paola, it is more convenient to write in Russian).
Many fell in love with these different national beauties made in Spain, and of course I couldn’t resist them and ordered a long-haired Paolochka for my daughter and me.
Our doll's name is Marianna (Marianna is my name and my daughter's together, Maria and Anna)
To my happiness, Paola is sold without clothes, she comes in only panties (everything is so decent).
Why fortunately, yes, because these are limitless ideas for creativity and inspiration for me.
For the Paola Reina doll, you can sew outfits with your own hands, and the goal of today’s article is to collect all kinds of patterns so that they are always at hand and you can sew new clothes at any time.
There are those who do not understand such a hobby, but I think they will not even read this article, and creative people do not need to explain anything, because everything has long been said for us -
Although I will still write a few words of my own:
In addition to the joy that the creative process brings and, of course, the finished result, creativity is also very useful because it develops creative thinking, logic, fine motor skills. Well, that’s not all: you can earn money with creativity, decorate everything around you and give gifts to others. In general, we could go on and on about the valuable benefits of creativity, but that’s not what we’re talking about today, this is just a slight digression from the topic.
But returning to our topic, I would like to write a short review about Paola Reina dolls. This is for those who are just interested in this doll; for everyone else, you can scroll below and not read this paragraph.
There were no such dolls when I was a child! As children, my sister and I really loved playing with dolls and we had quite a lot of them, so I have something to compare with. I really liked Paola’s appearance, long and fluffy eyelashes, eyes that looked like real ones, velvety skin pleasant to the touch. In my opinion, the optimal doll size is 32 -33 cm. Not big and not very small. I want to say about the hair that different dolls have different structures, the black ones are rough, but I took the ones with long ones. brown hair They are very soft like silk. The only thing that probably happens with all the dolls is that they look like different lengths, but this is all understandable. Initially, the length of the hair is taken the same, but when they are sewn on, they turn out at different levels, because the location of the back of the head, temples, bangs is different, so the length turns out to be different, but in my opinion this is not a critical drawback and besides, it can always be corrected if you trim your hair. But the hair is very thick and the doll will definitely never remain bald. The only significant drawback for me is that my doll doesn’t stand well, of course it can be placed, but sometimes you need to put in so much effort to do it. This is of course a big minus for photography. But we will learn how to get out of it. Paolok still has much more advantages. And finally, I’ll write about one more advantage that all Paolkas have - this is that they smell very pleasant, like vanilla).
✄ Dimensions of the Paola Reina doll
First you need to decide on the size of the doll.
I found a picture on the Internet with dimensions, but I want to say right away that they are approximate, because mine are similar, but at the same time different from both options.
Below I will write my approximate sizes
My doll's dimensions:
Doll height 33.7 cm;
-Head circumference 22.5 cm;
-Chest circumference 15.5 cm;
-Waist circumference 13.6;
-Hip circumference 17.6;
-Arm length 9.5;
-Leg length 15.8
In general, we have decided on the sizes, now we can move on to patterns.
How to use patterns?
The patterns can be printed, or you can redraw them by enlarging the picture to the required size and attaching a sheet of white paper or tracing paper to the monitor screen.
Important: Don't forget about seam allowances!
✄ Raglan sweater pattern for Paola
I ended up with a blouse like this, I just made the sleeve shorter and sewed a tulle frill on top.
This is all I have managed to sew on it so far.
✄ Pattern of a skirt with a yoke for Paola
✄Paola coat with hood
✄Patterns for sundresses, dresses and tunics by Paola Reina
The length of the dresses can be adjusted at your discretion.
Very beautiful national dresses.
Cartoon dresses
Elsa dress
✄Tights pattern for Paola
Among the various “parties” living in the boundless world of dolls, there is a circle of lovers of Spanish Paola Reina dolls. It is unknown how fascinated children are with these dolls, but adults play with them with gusto.
For example, there is a resource babiki.ru. There is a headquarters, a lair, a refuge for lovers of these dolls and a repository for various ideas for decorating them.
In short, the priests fooled Kozlevich... Having seen enough of people’s creativity and its amazing results, I bought Karla from Paola Reina with a new body.
(Attention! In 2018, the manufacturer again replaced the doll’s body. The so-called “new-new body” or “super-new body” appeared. The narrowness of the body, the waist with a steep transition to the hips, the drawing of the chest, abdomen and inguinal folds disappeared The body has become wider, flatter, and the arms and legs have moved closer to the body. Previously, the arms and legs were set back, which created comfort when cutting and trying on clothes.
The legs of the super-new bodies are very original. Thin in the hips, with enlarged knees and ankles...
1) New body; 2) new-new 2018; 3) new; 4) new-new 2018.
The heroine of the story is blonde Carla. And clothes for her.
Reasons for purchasing or how to succumb to suggestion and charm?
- The doll is mass-produced, that is, factory-made and store-bought, and therefore inexpensive. “Nyushka” (nude, nude) in mesh panties - 1200-1400 rubles. (summer 2018 prices). This one is sold in a simple plastic bag, but with certificate tags on the handles and factory marks on the head and back.
If the doll is not intended as a gift for a child, then there is no need to buy it in a box and in clothes and pay 3000-4000 rubles for this wealth: the clothes are not of shiny quality, the cuts are not processed, the finishing lines are crooked, etc. Paola Reina boots can be purchased separately. If you know how to make doll shoes, there are no problems at all.
The dolls are small - 32-33-34 cm, and their owners do not have to think about special cabinets or other special storage places.
However, many hobbyists and needlewomen collect a collection of a dozen or several dozen dolls, fortunately there are many of them: Carla, Carol, Christy, Karina, Cleo, Dasha, Claudia, Manika, Liu, Nora, as well as Carlos, Luis and Vicent. Add a variety of hair colors and lengths, different eye colors - and now you are tempted to buy another one, another one, another one... Some people like African women with Nora mold, some like Asian women, and some people remember everyone childhood dolls, admiring European women like Karl.
To the largest series of dolls “Girlfriends”, the manufacturer sometimes adds small series “Professions”, “Epoch” (there are dolls in long dresses), “Fairies” (dress with wings), etc. In general, the manufacturer is alive and does not stand still. He holds his consumer tenaciously in his hands. Baby dolls are also disappearing; instead, girls in gray T-shirts and shorts have come in a flood.
And most importantly. This is a model doll - a long, thin, stick-shaped doll just for “dressing”. In one online store she is successfully presented as a “doll for handicrafts.” You can hold her comfortably by her legs, like Barbie; hugging, squeezing, cradling - this is not about her.
The body and all its parameters are quite small, and having sewed her a tiny dress, you can be proud of yourself.
However, her proportions are not the proportions and sizes of Barbie, Monster High and analogues, when the production of clothes, shoes and accessories falls into the area jewelry works. There are miniaturists in the doll world, but this is a special caste and a special type of hobby or professional interest.
Paola Reina dolls are for the ordinary and mass fan of sewing and knitting.
And the most important thing. There are different directions in the world of doll production and in the neighboring world of doll lovers. But, despite new materials, trends and innovations, we managed to preserve the traditional conditional doll - a doll that does not replicate the proportions of a person, but, on the contrary, stimulates imagination and play practices.
So, Paola Reina dolls are just that, dolls, and their images are made up of charming human features, exaggerated to the point of tenderness. If we delve into the history of the issue, the situation was like this: molds for girlfriend dolls were made by a certain Spanish sculptor, and a German doll artist with a complex surname came up with the images of modern girls and a doll atelier. And now the company reproduces girlish fantasy images: “here I am a fairy”, “here I am a witch”, “here I am a doctor”, “here I am dressed like an adult”, “here I am at a ball or at a disco and all in sparkles”, etc. .p.
The dolls are charming in their conventionality. The proportions of the dolls' faces, 32-34 cm, resemble a child of 1-2 years old: such steep cheeks and a duck-like upper lip are found only in children who have not left the age of infancy. However, the eyes thick hair And long neck refer to a more mature age. The body proportions are unnatural: short body and long limbs. The analogue in nature is a thin and disproportionate teenager. If you want, you can sew her a kindergarten cap, but if you want, you can sew a ball gown. Wide range of choice. Play - I don't want to.
The bonus is that the dolls smell like vanilla. The new one can be put in the closet as a fragrance, the used one can be applied to the nose for pleasure. ( True, dolls with super-new wide bodies of 2018 smell of some kind of mushrooms, mold or chemical laboratory; but even in such a cocktail the smell of vanilla remains, and when the chemical wears off, the vanilla remains).
- There are pitfalls.
1) Sometimes marriage occurs. Dolls with a new body (with a narrow waist, like my Carla) often have one leg longer than the other. This is what I got. Here one can suspect work for the Eastern European market, as well as the policy of dealer companies purchasing discounted injections. Or maybe this is a feature of the Spanish mentality - an easy approach to life. Who knows? But you have to be prepared for the fact that... a kind of Asya Khromonozhka or Marya Lebyadkina will come to you.
There is another marriage. But here Russian buyers applied the principle “And we will turn your lack into dignity!”. Some dolls' eyes sank into their eye sacs, and the vinyl eyelids slightly covered the iris. The owners of such dolls declared them “scops owls” - girls with half-closed sleepy eyes - and began to deliberately chase after these dolls, like philatelists chasing defective stamps.
(Perhaps the experiment with too original and very controversial super-new bodies of 2018 will cause increased interest in dolls produced in previous years).
2) The doll is a play doll, and therefore the manufacturer can make minor mistakes: inaccurate placement of limbs into body holes (cracks, shifts), unclosed technological holes on the back of the head, etc. And there is glue in the eyes, and empty hair holes, and squinting eyes...
3) Vinyl. Yes, yes, vinyl. Even collectible dolls sometimes have clothes that paint their bodies! And the vinyl of the Paola Reina dolls loves paint and attracts paint - that’s how interesting it is.
If you buy a doll with clothes on, make sure that the outfit does not include bright pants with an elastic band, dark dresses and tights! There is a high probability that the paint has already penetrated the doll's body. Who knows how much time has passed since production? If the doll is “fresh”, it will come to you clean; and if it has been lying in a warehouse and experienced a change in temperature and humidity, then clothing stains may appear.
And then, when you sew doll clothes yourself, it is better to wash the fabric before cutting and do not risk wearing bright colored shoes no socks or socks. You'll be tormented to remove stains! Acetone, alcohol, melamine sponge, bleaches, a hellish 1:1 mixture of “White” and vinegar, a mixture of aspirin and hydrogen peroxide, expensive “Baziron” cream or cheap “Ugrisept” - nothing will help! The spots will fade but will not disappear.
Traces on the legs from colored shoes made of genuine leather.
There were black ones, but after all the manipulations they did not disappear, but only turned pale.
Traces on the doll from factory clothes.
After a week of “treatment” with “Baziron” skin cream.
Pleasant surprises and surprises. This is a very photogenic doll! And she always fools the camera! It is almost impossible to “catch” the doll in its natural proportions. If the face is in focus, then the limbs “creep away” and shorten. In photographs she looks like a chubby child with characteristic curves. In reality, this is a doll with a vertical dominant - long and thin.
The scale of the doll in comparison with a liter bottle.
And therefore any clothes suit her and any clothes will fit her:
- made by an amateur and made by a professional craftsman,
- fitted and loose,
- bright and faded-nondescript,
- children and adults,
- simple and complex,
- ordinary and couture,
- a single dress and a multi-layered set...
In short, this doll for girls different ages- from elementary school to deep retirement,- girls who love to sew. A doll for experimentation and self-realization of the owner.
Attention! I'm new to this. I'm just trying. You can look at conceptual masterpieces and the work of professional cutters on the same “Beibiki”.
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SO, I’M TRYING TO SEW FOR KARLA (pre-2018 body, with a narrow body and waist).
1) GRAY DRESS.
Other people's clothing patterns for a doll are scary: is she really that small? It can't be!
One of the ways to create a pattern for a doll is the application method.
So, the first pattern. Really small... But you have to trust people and not get carried away!
Pattern without allowances.
The normal allowance for such small patterns is 0.5 cm.
The drawing does not even show the lining for the fastener on the back. On the side of vertical cuts, it is enough to add 1-1.5 cm.
If you forgot to put numbers somewhere, you can count them by cells.
Everything is easier with a skirt. You can carve out a “sun”, “half-sun”, any arc.
You can put folds anywhere, you can just gather them...
Arc skirt.
Sewing doll clothes is a separate genre. It has its own tricks, conventions...
Puppeteer tailors have their own secrets and their own heights. For example, it is considered good form if the bodice or the entire dress is lined. That's how it turns out! That's how people do it!
When sewing my first dress, I used a master class from Beybikov. I don’t have enough brains for subtle technological steps and calculations.
There, the craftswoman, whose publication reeks of professionalism and experience, turned out a chic, cute and bright dress for a similar doll. And just one open seam at the waist! By the way, she also has a pattern for a dress with a balloon skirt. Many thanks to the master!
And here is my dress. Gray. Try.
But everything suits this tomboy! Even gray dress from scraps!
The bodice is clingy.
If the dress is sleeveless, then you can sew it in a velcro. It will fit!
2) DRESS MADE OF PATCHWORK FABRIC IN BRIGHT COLORS.
So. If it worked the first time, then the second time will work. You can pull out expensive patchwork fabric from the closet...
Let Carla have a real doll dress in her wardrobe - with polka dots.
I enlarged the bodice pattern a little. A little. And I reinforced the clasp with non-woven fabric.
Sewing according to the same master class. But with non-woven fabric.
Again, there are no allowances or bevels in the drawing.
Two skirts of different lengths are cut from the same pattern.
Length is optional.
Bows, headband, belt... As befits a real doll!
The genre is consistent.
Wow, what a girl she turned out to be!
3) A SET OF CLOTHING IN THE STYLE “FROM UNDER FRIDAY SATURDAY”, “GRANDMOTHER WAS GETTING GOING TO GARDEN”, “WHAT I FOUND IS WHAT I WEAR.” (If you want to show off, then you can classify these clothes as casual, street-punk, boho... But we won’t, because the author doesn’t have any styles in his head).
All. I tried it. You can sew in peace. Anything goes with this girl.
And you can finally let your dream take flight. And this is my dream: I always wanted to dress freely, ridiculously and in many layers. So that one hangs and the other sticks out. To mother's skirt with grandmother's hat. But it didn’t work out. So you need to dress the doll as yourself! That's why dolls were invented - to make our dreams come true!
Set.
Short denim skirt.
(All patterns are below, after the fashion show).
Blouse.
Vest with raglan sleeves.
Skirt and leggings.
He also takes long leggings made from iris threads.
A hat and socks made from socks.
Padded jacket.
Jacket with hood.
Long denim skirt with flowers.
And... get dressed! Let's make dreams come true and fight taste! “I’m a girl, I can do anything!”
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a) White and blue short blouse.
The bodice is almost the same as the polka dot dress. New - sleeve.
Blue and white blouse with short sleeves.
The sleeve is not too full, but it can be easily extended.
b) A vest with raglan sleeves.
Pattern of a vest - already with allowances of 0.5 cm and a hem! It happened that way.
Again the overlay and napkin method.
Pattern manipulation.
The final pattern will have an increased collar line for pleats.
To participate in one of the competitions, I sewed a dress for one of my Paola Reina 32 cm dolls. The idea of the set (which does not exist yet) is to have a checkered dress and a white turtleneck underneath. The dress is already ready. It sits freely on the pupae.
I show Christy and Nora with a pre-2015 torso. These girls are 32 cm tall.
On Christy.
This time I didn’t want to decorate the dress with trim, although there are plenty of options.
In the following photos I clearly show the layout of the pattern on checkered fabric. I adjusted it according to the drawing. 
Further on in the photo the pattern of the back has slipped. I didn't notice this when taking the photo. It must be positioned correctly so that the middle of the back is strictly diagonal to the cell. 
Dress from the back. The cells would have matched, but I was in a hurry. You can rip it apart and sew it more correctly, but I didn’t do it.
Sewing clothes from checkered fabric requires special attention.
Fitting.
It is simple and easy to make if you have a basic bodice pattern.
The sleeve is sewn on without any adjustment.
The clasp on this dress may be different. You can make an internal strip and sew buttons or buttons on it. This is exactly the option I have. The pattern has a one-piece placket. I marked it with dotted lines on the back, but you can see for yourself what width of such a bar is comfortable for you (a little less or a little more).
For the buttons on the placket you will need loops. If you can make miniature loops in the strap of the dress, it will be beautiful. I haven't tried this maneuver on my machine yet.
If you don’t have a placket, you can sew a buttonhole at the top.
Another option is to sew in a zipper, but for this small dress it will be rude.
Did you like the dress? I look forward to your feedback in the comments.
I'll be glad to see what you come up with.
There is 5 mm in 1 cell, the pattern is given without allowances, you need to add 5-6 mm to the allowances. Cut out the pattern, but don’t rush to cut it)
For sewing I use cotton fabric, a little lace, embroidery thread, and a couple of buttons for fastening.
Before cutting out the bodice pieces, I will do the embroidery. Last time I told you how to make embroidery on a brooch, the principle is the same.
I mark out the detail and place for embroidery on the fabric. Without cutting, I tuck it into a hoop or sew it onto cardboard. I use simple stitches, a stem stitch and a French knot.
Cut out the details:
We fold the parts facing each other, sew along the marked lines:
At the bends, trim the allowance close to the seam:
I turn it inside out and iron it:
We process the side seams:
Let's iron it one more time. Getting the skirt ready. We start with the central wedge. Sew on the lace, starting from the bottom row. Leave an allowance for hemming at the bottom.
We attach the side panels. We process the seams and edges:
Basting the skirt. We start sewing the hem from the center. And we distribute the rest inside the bodice.
After that, I stitch it inside by hand. You can also sew it on a machine. I also make the eyelets by hand and sew on the buttons:
I am not an expert in sewing clothes for dolls. I can sew neatly, and sewing machine I have a good one, but the most important thing in sewing is the pattern, and I can only build them using the breadboard method. Fortunately, there are successful ones ready-made patterns, which produces clothes with a good fit.
I really like clothing sets that combine several sewn and several knitted items. And if it’s also complemented by leather shoes, then it’s absolutely wonderful.
Today I will show you what set of clothes I managed to assemble with my own hands, based on a sundress sewn according to Oksana Lifenko’s pattern.
I've already shown knitted dress with a bow from this booklet - “Sew and knit for Paola Reina dolls”, I complemented it with a simple hat. In the booklet, in addition to the MK for knitting a dress, there was a pattern for a sundress and a MK for sewing it.
The outfit is shown by a Christie doll on an old body from 2013. I also tried the sundress on the newest body of Paola Reina, and it suits him quite well.
Here in the Caucasus, September is quite a summer month, but in the mornings it’s already cool, so a light jacket won’t hurt. I knitted the jacket from Iris yarn from the Kirovsky NPK, using fillet mesh knitting. The result is a fairly simple product, but there is one feature, if such a jacket or blouse is knitted for Paola Reina’s dolls, then it must be taken into account, these dolls have arms pointing down, they do not move to the sides, like dolls with fastenings in the form of a sphere (large Gotz, for example), so you should not knit a sleeve adjacent to the main part at a right angle, so that folds do not form. A sleeve at an acute angle will give a better fit to the doll’s figure; the item will turn out neater.
And during the day it gets hot, and bright sun, so you need to take a hat. I came up with a hat that would hold its shape even without wire or starch treatment. This hat model is now my favorite hat for dolls; it is very easy to knit and matches the style of almost any outfit.
A description of knitting with photographs of the intermediate stages of a crochet hat is published on the website in the section of my free master classes.
I did not make a fastening with sewing buttons. I sewed on the buttons and made thread loops.
I complemented the three-piece outfit with leatherette shoes. I bought them in a joint purchase of doll shoes on the American Monique website. All Monique shoes are of excellent quality, there are a huge number of models in different colors. But it is important not to make a mistake with the size. These shoes look great on the old Paola Reina body, and they fit the Minouche dolls from Petitcolline too, but there is absolutely no way to fit them on the new body or the newest Paola Reina body.
Do it for now leather shoes I haven’t learned how to do it myself yet, we’ll use branded shoes.
Since I liked sewing using Oksana’s patterns, I also sewed a shirt for a doll using the “Christmas Carols” master class, it was a free joint project 2 years ago. The outfit consisted of several items: a sewn shirt and related sundress, hat, padded vest, boots. I knitted everything except the boots, I think I’ll complement the outfit with Paola Reina’s signature leatherette shoes. Now all that remains is to do the embroidery on the vest and cap.
The shirt, based on Oksana’s pattern, fits well even on Paola Reina’s newest body. My shirt was tried on by a Cleo doll from an exclusive delivery at the beginning of 2018, there was such a batch of dolls before the body change at the factory, then ordinary bodies from 2015-2017 had sculpted legs, with knees, like the old bodies before 2015. Such bodies are usually called hybrid, and they are now very much appreciated among lovers of Paola Reina girlfriend dolls.
This particular Cleo is valuable not only for its hybrid knee-length body, but also for its hairstyle/eye color combination, because the serial production of Cleo with blond hair and a bob haircut + gray eyes there wasn't. There was a bob haircut with straight bangs + brown/hazel eyes, but this one with side bangs was not mass-produced at all. In addition, Cleo with a haircut was completely discontinued in 2018, now even with brown eyes and straight bangs on the forehead of the Cleo doll cannot be found.
There was also an article for a naked Cleo doll with a bob haircut, but with red hair. It was also discontinued.
But for me this doll is valuable simply because I like it.
The boots in the photo above are Paola Reina’s signature shoes; since 2018, this model with Velcro closure has returned to the factory’s assortment; before that there was a period of simpler shoes.
And I recently knitted another dress for a paolka according to Oksana Lifenko’s pattern. The dress with hearts is still worn by Manika with colored hair, because I don’t have many suitable clothes for the newest body type, I usually knit tightly and tightly, I like a clear fit on doll bodies, not robes. Now we will have to decide in advance who will wear the new outfit, in order to adjust the product to the desired body type during the process of knitting and sewing. I hope to have more 2018 dolls on my body soon.
