Have the best dressed baby doll in town!

I have just published a new baby doll pattern to fit baby Born 17" doll. The design is cute little rompers. So easy to dress your doll in these side opening rompers and of course all the little girls will want some dresses to fill out their wardrobe.
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Easy to dress your doll

• Watch my video to see how easy it is to get these rompers on your doll

• I always use velcro patches. They are so easy to do up and undo yet they hold the outfit together really well.

• If you know your little one won't be able to tie a knot for the belt just add 3/4" to the end next to the fold and don't cut it on the fold. Sew each end and down one side so most of the other side is open. Finish it off like the one piece belt then put velcro patches at the back. Put it on the doll and tie up the knot. Now just use the velcro at the back to take it on and off. You may need to also make a special one for a head band.

Lots of dresses for those family get togethers

• Rompers are OK for playing but special visits need something a bit more dressy.

• The BD Dress is perfect for creating all sorts of dress variations. You could even make the rompers with singlet and pants fabric and make the dress into a top with a shorter skirt. Just fold up 1" to make the skirt pattern into a little over top.

• The dress pattern comes with two sleeves, two collars and pockets.

Download the patterns from my Etsy shop

• BD Rompers

• BD Dress

Organise your patterns so you can use them over and over

• Watch my video on how quick it is to make a booklet of instructions to go into your envelope.

• I keep all my patterns in folders with plastic pockets. 
• The folder divider page keeps my folders in order when I take out the pattern
• The envelope keeps my pieces in order while I have the pattern out for sewing.
• The instructions as booklet style fits neatly next to my sewing machine.

You may think my videos are a bit ordinary but the only way for me to get better is to just jump in and make some. I hope you enjoyed seeing me and my sewing room in my dress up video. I nearly dropped the doll trying to do up the belt knot so you could see what I was doing and it was really hard to cut out some of the dumbest bits and keep the commentary making sense.

I did make an effort to dress well. The check shirt I had on for the day was just a bit busy to hold the doll in front of and I figured if I was changing I may as well go all out and find a nice necklace.

I couldn't believe how hard it was to get the booklet into the envelope. I should have seen that coming. I might have to have a word with the props manager.

I hope you head on over to my shop now if not before. I have lots of 18" doll clothes patterns as well as the 3 Baby Doll patterns.
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Happy Sewing and Crafting,
Val

New Rompers Doll Clothes Pattern for 18" Dolls 1863 by Valspierssews

Valspierssews 1863 Rompers
Dolls Clothes Pattern to fit 18" American Girl Doll

I have enjoyed creating this design because it gave me so much to think about and it felt really good when it all came together.
There were so many things I wanted to do with this design. I knew I couldn't fit them all in one pattern but how was I going to divide it up?
This first rompers pattern number 1863 is the first of several patterns that use the rompers design. I have worked out that I can make them all different by changing the bodice style and the leg style and then all the pieces can be mixed around to give lots of variations.

Mid calf legs.
Original neckline with narrow shoulders

1863 has a band at the bottom of the leg and the pants leg is gathered into the band. There are 4 different leg lengths and the bodice has a very cute sweetheart neckline.

Button strap bodice version.
The pattern with this bodice will have regular hem legs

I was keen to try out the different neckline ideas that I had so I can only show images of the legs for the listing. Only the long leg black patterned fabric garment has the sweetheart neckline that is in the pattern.
I tried one out on the yellow star garment but the shoulders were a bit narrow and it was too hard to turn through. You don't want to spend 20 mins fiddling with one step. It looks great and you can always make the shoulders a bit narrower if you have lots of patience. I like the final version better but the patterned fabric doesn't show it off to its best advantage.

The great part about the bodices on all the rompers designs is that they can be interchanged with all the other Snugfit Range patterns. The collection of necklines will look great with a circle skirt or a half circle skirt or a skinny skirt or just a cute gathered skirt.
Don't you just love these shoes. I have started collecting some cute shoes because I plan to have a go at selling complete outfits that come with a garment, shoes, socks, necklace, earrings, hat and handbag.

You are going to love the bow tie because it is so versatile. You can tie it in front like a bow or tie it in back for a sash or you can use it as a headband. It will look great on lots of other garments too.

Square neckline example.
Knee length pants and contrast bow tie

Some of the other necklines are the square neck, the button strap neck and the scoop neck. The next romper patterns will have elastic casing on the legs, just a hem and also narrow elastic with a ruffle like bloomers. They all have different amounts of gather in the leg and they can all be made into pants with an elastic casing waist.
I will be looking at making one of the rompers with a back opening. It can still be made easy to put on the doll by having one of the shoulders open as well like in the side opening design. That will be a choice for you to make.
When the rompers have a back opening you will be able to use the bodices from other dress patterns to mix things up.

I have already made the pattern pieces for a 20" doll romper for the Australian Girl Doll. It won't have as many variations but I can assure you it looks really cute. I decided against the belt loops and I made a few adjustments to the belt width and length after making this sample.

Look out for these soon.

Click over to my Etsy shop and buy the new 1863 Rompers. The price is my low $4 AUD so you can afford to buy all the other versions when they come out. Unfortunately Australians now have to pay GST on top of that because my patterns come into Australia from the Etsy site.

Happy Sewing,

Val