Today’s tutorial is an upgraded version of a concept I’ve covered here on ChellyWood.com before. I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but Dritz snaps sometimes have a hole running through the middle of them (which used to be essential for sewing on snaps), but lately they seem to be making them so you can’t slide a straight pin inside the little hole–if there even is a hole in them.

When you buy your snaps (AKA “poppers”) in bulk, they’re even less likely to have the little hole in the middle. So today’s video addresses this issue. It explains how I sew my snaps/poppers to dolls’ clothes, when no hole is available in the middle of the snap/popper.

Today’s tutorial is one of several videos that used to be voiceless, but now I’m adding voiceover to my older tutorials, to make them easier for Google to translate. Voiceover also makes it possible for visually impaired people to benefit from my tutorial videos.

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I want to point out that for a long time, I sang the praises of Dritz snaps because they always came with a hole in the middle, making it easy to sew them.

However, in the past couple of years, I’ve noticed the little hole in the middle has shrunken down to where I cannot fit a straight pin through it anymore.

Dritz snaps still have nice card displays, and this makes it easier to make sure you always have a stud that easily fits your sockets. (If you buy them in a bulk baggie, sometimes you’ll end up with two studs and a missing socket, or you’ll find one stud doesn’t fit the sockets.)

I plan to use up my supply of Dritz snaps before I break into a new brand I’ve discovered…

Gondola snaps are my new favorite brand because they always come with an easy-to-use hole right in the middle of both the stud and the socket, to help align snaps correctly on a doll’s garment. And they come in very tiny sizes as well!

If you’d like to try the Gondola snaps for yourself, they’re available on Etsy. (That’s how I discovered them.) And as you can see in the image above, Gondola snaps are fairly priced, even when you figure in the cost of shipping.

You’re welcome to visit this older blog post all about snaps before you buy yourself some snaps. There are a few more things to learn about them in that blog post.

With that said, you don’t have to use snaps to close your doll clothes.

There are other ways to to go about it; ribbons, drawstrings, Velcro, hooks and eyes, and even buttons (for bigger dolls) can be used, but I think snaps are pretty simple to sew, if you can just get the sizing right.

Click on the links I’ve provided above to learn about each of these other methods of closure as well.

Today’s blog post is a short one, but as many of you know, in my day job, I’m a school librarian. With school underway this week, I’ve been busy!

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