Here’s the pattern I designed for my daughter’s Breyer® rider dolls. The Breyer® traditional dolls are an 8″ doll, so I discovered to my pleasure, that these outfits also fit my World of Love doll from Hasbro®!
While trying things on, I discovered that Lagoona Blue, my Monster High® doll, could wear the pants (but they look a bit like cropped pants on her). In fact, I used this design as a prototype for my Monster High®/Ever After High® patterns, which I’ll be posting some time soon.
Lagoona wasn’t able to slip her webby fingers through the tiny cuffs of the shirt, but as many Monster High® fans know, her hands can come off quite easily. Once I popped her hands off, I was able to slip her into the blue plaid shirt without any trouble.
However, I’m working on creating a shirt that’s more suitable for Lagoona. I’ve recently cast her as the apothecary in my dolly stop-motion version of Romeo and Juliet. To learn more about my stop-motion production, please visit my YouTube channel.
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Most of my designs use a 1/4 inch seam (standard for fashion doll sewing projects), but for smaller doll clothes projects like this one, I recommend using a 1/8 inch seam, if you can pull that off. This ensemble isn’t for brand-new sewists (it can be tricky to make), so if you’re looking for easier projects, please read the information below…
I also have a series 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 gather fabric, how to use the whipstitch to hem a garment, how to sew on snaps, and even how to design your own doll clothes patterns, just like I do!
Need help printing my patterns? This link will take you to a tutorial showing you how to download my free, printable patterns. It’s important to enlarge my patterns to fit a full-sized piece of American computer paper (8.5 x 11 inches or 216 x 279 mm) without margins, before printing.
In case you haven’t heard, I’ve 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.