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Have you ever been looking at doll clothes or people clothes pictures on Pinterest and seen the perfect dress for your doll?
Don't you wish you could recreate the design using patterns that you already have?
What you need is a great fitting doll clothes pattern or two that allows you to easily draft new designs.
My latest spring design that will be published in March was inspired by a dress I found when I did a Google search for Spring dresses.
I took a screenshot and thought about what patterns I had that had pieces I could use without any fancy drafting.
The 3/4 fitted sleeve I took from a dress in my 60s Vol.1 collection but the sleeve piece 7 from 1806 Blouse should do the job. You will just have to cut it off at the elbow.
I didn't want to have to experiment with ruffle depth so I used the skirt from 1804a Scallop bib dress.
It has a hem band that I like the width of. This design also had the front and back bodice pieces.
I know from experience that a normal gathered skirt looks silly with a 3 x gathered ruffle. It is just too out there for the size of the doll.
So I folded under the pattern pieces for the skirt strips so the front strip was 6 3/4" to be cut on the fold and the back pieces were 7 1/2". This gives me a 24" skirt.
I then took the hem band pieces and cut each 1 3/4" wide. I taped them together then adjusted the length to be twice the skirt front pattern piece. You could do this with plain paper too. You don't need the hem band pattern piece.
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| The hem ruffle is twice the skirt hem. |
When you cut the ruffle you need to cut 2 on the fold. I stitched them together at the side seams then I turned up a 1/4" hem. I gathered using a single row of long stitches.
For the sleeve ruffle you need to cut 2 ruffles twice as wide as the sleeve hem edge. Fold under what you don't need on the hem ruffle pattern piece then cut 2.
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| The ruffle needs to be twice the width of the sleeve hem edge |
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| I folded over the excess from my hem ruffle pattern piece to cut the sleeve ruffle |
You can see my whole range of doll clothes patterns on Etsy
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| Just one of the add-on bib designs in this pattern |
Happy Doll Dressmaking,
Val