Today I’m going to give you my free sewing pattern and tutorial for making this adorable ironing board. It’s about the right size for Barbie™, Monster High™, Ever After High™, Lammily™ and similar fashion dolls.

To save space, I added a jeans pattern to the ironing board pattern. If you’d also like to sew jeans to fit your Tall Barbie™ (and if you’d like to watch that tutorial as well), go to this link.

And now, here are the pattern and tutorial for making this adorable ironing board:

• Pattern for ironing board
• Tutorial for making the ironing board

Incidentally, when I created this ironing board, I did a whole series of tutorials on how to DIY and OOAK your own sewing room for dolls. Here are links to those videos as well:

• Doll dress form project
• Doll desk remodel project
• Doll armoire repaint project
• Doll office chair project
• Diorama tips and tricks

Once you’ve gotten your doll sewing room up to snuff, it will probably look something like this:

You’ll see my doll sewing room appearing in a lot of my more recent tutorials. I even have my dolls do the sewing on that cute little sewing machine.

By the way, if you’re new to sewing, stand by for my up-coming beginners’ sewing lessons, which I have planned for the fall. There’s more about that below…

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Coming soon: easy-peasy sewing lessons for the beginner doll sewists. I’ve been getting requests for tutorials that even the brand-new sewists can make, so I’m working on a series of easy-to-sew patterns and tutorials for just that sort of person. These beginner tutorials will be suitable for both children and adults. I plan to begin posting those easy-sew lessons and patterns this fall, so stay tuned for more news about that.

I’ve also got a playlist of tutorials for the beginning sewists on my YouTube channel. It includes video tutorials showing you how to do a basic straight stitch when sewing by hand, how to use the whipstitch to hem a garment, how to sew on snaps, and even how to design your own doll clothes patterns, for those who are new to design and alterations.

If you have any questions about my patterns, instructions, or about sewing for dolls, in general, just submit a question.

Please be aware, however, that I may not be answering emails until mid-August, as I’m on a business trip  right now, so if you need answers to your sewing questions right away, you’ll probably want to search elsewhere.

Remember that you need to enlarge my patterns to fit an American-sized sheet of printer paper (8.5 x 11 inches or 216 x 279 mm), without margins, before printing. Feel free to pin, like, or tweet about my free patterns and tutorials.

Need help printing my patterns? This link will take you to a tutorial showing you how to download my free, printable patterns.

If you’re wondering why I make patterns and tutorials without charging a fee, please visit the “Chelly’s Books” page, and that should explain my general motivations. Overall, I love to sew, design doll clothes, and embroider, and I think it’s important to share my talents with the world, so others can learn to do what I do.

And in case you haven’t heard, I have also designed commercial patterns for Lammily LLC. They have some new dolls in their line, including a new male doll, so you might want to visit the Lammily website to see what they’ve got going on.