This is the ruffle-bottom skirt that I mentioned in yesterday’s post. It’s an extremely versatile pattern, fitting nearly every fashion doll in the 10-12 inch range, including Ideal’s Tammy doll, Curvy Barbie®, Tall Barbie®, Skipper®, Petite Barbie®, and Lammily®.

All you have to do, to make sure this skirt fits your doll correctly, is this: measure her waist correctly for the elastic. Each of the dolls I’ve mentioned above has a little different waist measurement. As it shows in the video, pin the elastic to your doll’s waist before cutting it to size. Then follow the rest of the instructions in this video, and you will have a skirt that’s custom made for your fashion doll.

Granted, the skirt fits a little longer on Skipper®, a little shorter on Tall Barbie®, but it’s a nice medium-length skirt overall.

Here’s a link to the pattern you need, if you want to make this skirt.

Before you go, you really should check out the fashion doll ninja costume I’m giving away as a freebie! (Click that link to learn more.)

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Please note: you must 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. These designs use a 1/4 inch seam (standard for fashion doll sewing projects).

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In case you haven’t heard, I’ve 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.

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!