How To Make A Wool Dolly

My nan showed me how to make these wool dollies when I was a small child and I spent hours using up odd balls of wool making whole families.

They are very quick and easy to make and you can customise them in many different ways.

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You will need: Left over wool Oblong piece of scrap card Scissors
Instructions: Wrap the wool around the lenght of the card untill it's quite thick. Slip the wound up wool off the edge of the card.
Cut some pieces of wool off your ball long enough to tie around the body of your doll, allow enogh for a double knot. Tie one lenghth around the bunch of wool about a quarter way down and another form a head shape with tufty hair. (see photo)
Make another bunch of wool about 2/3 the size of the first and tie off about 1/4 way from each end.
Seperate the bunch of wool underneath the head you tied off earlier and put the smaller bunch through and push up towards the head.
Take another length of wool and tie underneath the arms.
Cut through the loops at the bottom where the legs will be formed.
Take two more lenghts of wool and wrap them around the bottom of the legs to form the wool dolls feet. Pull it tight and do a double knot.
Trim off all of the straggly ends and you have your first wool dolly.