Polly Plush
Designer notes
Polly is a base to make simple humanoid or anthropomorphic fabric dolls. It has many options to change the size and proportions of the doll, and a couple of alternate heads and legs to allow for more animal-like characters.
Polly does not come with clothes or a face. Pick your own favorite method for the face and hair. If you want to make clothes, I have excellent news - you’re currently on a website that lets you draft clothes at doll scale. Go wild!
Polly can make a useful test dummy to try out other patterns on a small scale, and make sure you understand their construction before you commit more fabric to them. If you want to use it for this, bear in mind that Polly has narrower shoulders and a wider neck than most humans who have skeletons. Polly’s shoulder slope is around 37 degrees. Its shoulder seams will often be very steep and very small. Play around with the doll’s shoulder width measurement (it’s somewhat arbitrary) and shoulder-to-shoulder ease until you get something that looks physically plausible.