No sewing skills? Doesn't matter!

 I've been on a Waldorf doll accessories-making binge this past week. Aside from making so many doll shoes that I feel like a one-woman sweat shop, I've also found a coat pattern for 16" (40cm) Waldorf dolls. Now, I can't read French, but I was able to figure out most of it. What would have been really handy though, would have been to know ahead of time that the pattern didn't include allowances. But, I didn't know that ahead of time, so the coat is a little tighter than I'd like. As in, I can't button up the coat. Also, my local stores don't offer felt sheets large enough for the hood to be made in one piece, so I cut out two pieces (with an allowance, since it was nearly the last thing I did and I knew at that point) and stitched them together, one at a time to the collar and then up the middle.

But now, back to shoes. Bub is trying his hand at making doll shoes too, the light blue pair is his:

 What I've been doing is facing them inside out, then sewing around the edge, folding down and sewing the tabs as well:

 Of course, this is only after I've pinned the two pieces in place and I have no huge gaps.

I have plans to make boots too, in brown and perhaps yellow (like rain boots, even though they're felt and not rubber or vinyl), but I have to come up with a boot pattern first.