Here we have the skirt pattern to accompany yesterday’s bodice pattern, for Mattel’s Tall Barbie and similar-sized dolls. This week we’re making a lovely prom, wedding, or quinceañera dress for fashion dolls like Spin Master Liv™ dolls, Momoko™ dolls, Queens of Africa™ dolls, Mattel’s regular-sized Barbie® dolls, Mattel’s Tall Barbie and similar-sized fashion dolls.
But the pattern I posted yesterday–at least the middle one anyway–has been specially adapted to fit around Mattel’s Tall Barbie and similar-sized dolls in the torso area. Today’s skirt pattern, however, is the identical same skirt pattern I posted with the one-shoulder-look wedding dress project that I posted a while ago and the one-shoulder look prom or quinceañera dress that I posted just last week. So for all of my regular followers, today’s pattern probably looks pretty familiar.
If you’re worried I won’t create anything new, don’t fret! These dresses will make up a full wedding party when I’m all done, and right now I’m working on the flower girl’s dress. After that, I have a plan to design an easy-to-sew dinner jacket for Ken and similar-sized male fashion dolls. So lots of great things are coming soon!
When I did my start-of-the-year poll, a lot of you wanted me to focus on designing doll clothes for 18″ dolls and 14″ dolls. I’ve asked for those sizes of dolls for my birthday, which is coming up in March, so stick around to see what kinds of free patterns I come up with later this spring!
Also, in case you haven’t heard, my daughters and I have been creating a stop motion video called Romeo and Juliet With Dolls, which has had its first act released recently. Please take a look at it on my YouTube Channel, and if you like it, share it on social media! We’ve actually been working on this enormous production for four years!
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In case you haven’t heard, I have actually designed some commercial patterns for Lammily LLC. You might want to visit the Lammily website to see what they’ve got going on.
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