How to Make a Stress Relief Doll. Free Sewing Pattern and Tutorial.

This Stress Relief Doll Free Sewing Pattern will make your life so much better!

Do you happen to know what these ugly dolls are for? 

If you have ever felt stressed, angry, frustrated, or even just anxious, you know that one has the urge to hit something in those moments.

Well, these dolls are here to help. These dolls are not particularly pretty. They are the perfect item for you to unload your emotions without consequences.

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This fabric doll is the ultimate stress relief tool. It is explicitly designed to absorb all the negative energy you might have stored. 

Take your doll and smash it against the table when you want to hit something.

It doesn’t care!

Squeeze it, yell at it, tell it all the wrong words you can imagine. Let your anger go. That’s why I am super excited to give you this “un-cute” sewing project.

How to Make a Stress Relief Doll with fabric?

Download our free sewing pattern at the end of this post and choose what doll size you want to make. We offer 10”, 8”, and 5 ½” tall. Then follow the sewing instructions in this post to create your own stress relief doll.

When I made my first Stress Relief Doll, it was very satisfying. 

Not only the process of actually making it. Which was pretty relaxing by itself. 

But it helped me a lot when I was having a bad day. I was able to let off steam, and my frustrations went away.

I decided to start making them for my friends, and they all agreed. Best sewing gift ever.

The best thing is that making this doll is super easy to sew. It consists only of two pieces.

You sew the edge, turn it right side out, fill it, and you are done!

I went a step further and designed different types of “hair” for each of my dolls.

One has knit stretched strips of fabric. The other is simple scraps, and the third one has old pieces of homemade bias tape.

Make them look as uglier as you can! You don’t even have to make perfect seams.

You won’t feel bad about hitting it and yelling “Damn it!” at it.

How to Make a Stress Relief Doll? Free Sewing Pattern.

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Follow this step-by-step guide to make your Damn it style doll.

1. Gather all your materials.

• Fabric or scraps
• craft filling
• Buttons
• Sewing Scissors
• Thread
• Hand Needle
• Pins

2. Print your patterns.

Select the paper size you have at home. We are offering Letter and A4 printing formats.

Then choose the doll size you want to make.

We have three sizes of doll patterns, 10″, 8″, and 5″. Print your favorite.

I like to make them 5 ½” tall for my friends to take to their offices.

3. Cut out the pattern on the fabric.

Cut out twice the pattern on the fabric you have chosen.

We chose to sew scraps and make our own fabric to give them a more original touch. You can do the same. They’ll look great! 

But if you are feeling a little bit lazy, just grab any scrap fabric, which will be good.

4. Cut fabric strips.

Form the hair of the doll with any material. 

You can use bias binding, ready, etc. I cut strips of the same fabric I created.

Place them on the head of one of your body pieces and join them with a basting stitch, so they stay in place.

5. Sew the body.

Place the other body piece over the piece with hair and pin them together, sew a ¼”.

Leave 2” to 3” open to insert the stuffing and turn the piece inside out.

Remember to back stitch at the beginning and end of the seam.

Once this step is finished, make small cuts in the rounded parts of the body and turn the piece inside out.

6. Add the stuffing.

Insert craft filling through the open part of the doll’s body. 

Take small amounts and help yourself to a pencil to push it down to fill the legs and arms. 

Finally, use an invisible stitch to close the doll’s body.

7. Add accessories and the doll poem.

Ready! You’re almost done with your doll.

You just need to give it the final touch and customize it-  Add some buttons as eyes or whatever you can think of to give it a more crazy look!

You also have the option to add a little poem that goes along with this doll when you give it as a gift to your friends. There are plenty of theme poems variations available for you.

Stress Relief Doll Free PDF Sewing Pattern.

Click here to download your free Stress Relief Doll Sewing Pattern.

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