Category: Studio Tips & Tutorials

  • Quick and easy lavender pouch!

    Step 1: Gather all your supplies: fabric – ribbon – dried lavender – sewing machine – thread Step 2: Cut your little pouch out of chosen fabric (size or shape is up to you, I used a piece of cloth from 6″ by 3″) Step 3: Put face sides of fabric together and place your…

  • Tutorial on Paper Bunting

    Flags everywhere, Bunting is a simple way to dress up a room or outdoor space. It makes me allways so happy and in a party mood seeing  these strings full of happiness. Because of that I decorated my house with bunting. Here at Bamboletta we have in each corner something nice from dolls and bunting…

  • Studio Tip: Ankles

    I have been sewing Bamboletta Dolls for about four years and now I have the pleasure of helping Christina train new sewers.  So much thought, care and loving detail goes into each doll.  Doll making has been a part of humankind for a very long time and at Bamboletta we are so proud to be carrying…

  • Getting to the point, Bamboletta style.

    There’s one thing that we do a lot of at Bamboletta, and that would be repetitive motion!  It comes in forms of sewing, hair and fabric cutting, typing at the computer and sewing machine, packing and making boxes, etc. Throughout the day we’ll pause to stretch and then get back to work. This really helps…

  • The gLOVE

    When I first started stuffing doll arms & legs with chopsticks, I noticed that I was getting really sore on the palms of my hands from the bottom of the chopstick digging into my skin as I pushed the wool tightly into the body parts. I wondered how I could remedy this discomfort. One night when I got home…

  • A How-To Tutorial on Making a Pouf!

    Christina clocks countless hours in our West Wing sewing the faces onto the dolls, and I thought it would be sweet to make her a foot pouf to rest her feet, a project I recently did for my daughter….As I have been super engrossed with web-stuff and graphics the last couple weeks at work, I…