I have had a request by my friend, Commodore Cuddles, on how to make a Norrington doll. So I thought that I would share the info with all you Norrington fans out there! Ain't I a good person?!?!
1.Brown,peach, white,
blue material
2. (maybe) brown permanent marker
3.white or
brown yarn
4.thread
5.needles
6. small gold buttons.
Here's how you do it:
1.cut out a pattern. it you want to
make the pants and upper torso seprate, then cut out seprate
patterns. place the patterns over the peach material( for the
arms,head, upper&lower torso, and legs if you please) and the
white.( pants and shoes.)
2.cut out the shape of his head,arms, and upper torso on the peach material. (if you want to make it where you can take the pants off to put a pair of your daughter's Ken doll pants on him, then cut out the full body: head,arms, upper&lower torso, and legs on the peach material.
3.cut out the shape of the pants in the white material. (It helps if you cut out the feet so they're conjoined to the pants)
4.If you're sewing the pants and the upper torso together, then pinch together where the pants and torso, and sew them together
5. once you've done that on both pieces of material, then sew together his front and back.but make sure you leave a hole somewhere so you turn Norry rightside out, and so you can put the stuffing in.
6.turn the doll right side out, stuff it, and sew up th hole. The doll might be a lot smaller now then when he first started out.
7. time to make the jacket. take the blue material and measure to see how wide and long his arms are. Use that to cut out two rectangles. (ect. my doll's arms were 5 in. wide, so I cut out the rectangles to be 7 in wide. You need to have left over room to sew.)
8. stitch the long ends of the rectangles together. Those will be his arms.
9.cut out two holes and stitch the coat arms to them
10. it's pretty easy from now on. Draw a face on with the marker.
11. Measure his stomach, and then cut out how wide you want his white (or yellow) vest to be.
12. cut out two holes for his arms
(don't be to embarrassed if you get the vest wrong. It's harder than it sounds. My doll's stomach is hanging out of it a little, like a beer belly. Must be from all that rum…)
13. put vest on him, and then stitch it up, and put some of the gold buttons on it.
14.Time to make the lapel. Cut out two long triangular pieces of the white material, and sew them onto the part of the Jacket that lets his stomach show.
15. sew more of the gold buttons onto the lapel.
16. Take your brown or white ( brown if you want the young norrington or scruffington, white if you want the commodore or admiral) and hot glue or stitch it on.
And there you have it! Your very own Norrington doll! Just PM me if you need any help! Good luck!
