Month: March 2019

Tutorials: Crafts, Tutorials: Sewing Basics, Tutorials: Sewing for Dolls

#SewingBlogger Thursday: How to Use Ribbon With Doll Projects

Have you ever finished sewing a doll dress and decided your finished product seemed to be missing something? Perhaps that something was a ribbon! As you’ll see in this video, there are lots of great uses for ribbons when sewing doll clothes. Some are functional parts of the garment, and others are just there to add a little splash of color to an otherwise too-simple … Continue reading #SewingBlogger Thursday: How to Use Ribbon With Doll Projects

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Please visit ChellyWood.com for FREE printable sewing patterns to fit dolls of many shapes and sizes. Image shows 11 to 12 inch Disney Princess dolls modeling four different outfits including a pair of pants, a Colonial shirt, a tricorne hat, a party dress, a Halloween-candy corn long sleeve dress with collar, and an A-line dress with puff sleeves and cuffs (the latter uses St. Patrick's Day green plaid shamrock fabric). The watermark explains that free printable sewing patterns are available to download at ChellyWood.com where these images originated.
10-inch doll clothes patterns, 11-inch doll clothes patterns, 12-inch doll clothes patterns, Disney Princess Dolls, Whole Costumes for Dolls

Free Sewing Patterns for Disney Princess Fashion Dolls (Gallery)

Please click on the doll clothes you would like to make. Not what you’re looking for? Behind the scenes, I’m creating a series of classes in doll clothing design techniques, so you can design your own doll clothes for your dolls, using simple techniques, household tools, and your amazing imagination! Click on this link to learn more about my paid courses on the Creative Spark Online Learning platform. If you would like … Continue reading Free Sewing Patterns for Disney Princess Fashion Dolls (Gallery)

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11-inch doll clothes patterns, Disney Princess Dolls

#TapeMeasureTuesday: Measure a Disney Princess Merida doll for sewing projects

Every now and then, I get a request for doll clothes patterns to fit the Disney Princess line of dolls. Often these requests don’t specify which doll the sewist is creating clothes for. The problem is that Disney Princesses come in many shapes and sizes, as you can see in the image below. There’s even a number of Disney Princess dolls in larger “toddler” sizes, … Continue reading #TapeMeasureTuesday: Measure a Disney Princess Merida doll for sewing projects

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Merida wears a green plaid dress with short puffy sleeves that have green cuffs. The cotton dress is decorated with plaid black, green, and white colors overlaid with shamrocks. Under her dress, the doll wears handmade bloomers.
Holiday Crafts, Whole Costumes for Dolls

#MeMadeMonday: a #StPatricksDay dress for Disney #Princess #dolls @ ChellyWood.com

Happy March, everyone! I posted this dress as a Monster High pattern last St. Patrick’s Day, but imagine my surprise when I discovered that it also fits my new/used Merida Disney Princess doll! Hopefully no one will be upset by the fact that Merida is actually Scottish, not Irish! 😉 It’s just that I stumbled across the fact that she’ll fit in this dress, so … Continue reading #MeMadeMonday: a #StPatricksDay dress for Disney #Princess #dolls @ ChellyWood.com

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The image leads to a video embedded (with permission) from My Froggy Stuff on YouTube. It shows how to make a no-sew tutu for Barbie dolls using a hairband made of elastic or rubber band with knotted tulle wrapped around it. This featured image is a white tulle tutu made using the method shown on the MyFroggyStuff YouTube channel. Credit was given to the creators at MyFroggyStuff
Interviews With Crafters, Tutorials: Crafts

#FridayFollow : Make a #NoSew #Dolls’ Tutu with MyFroggyStuff–an amazing YouTuber!

Anybody who knows and loves Barbie has heard of MyFroggyStuff on YouTube. If you’re not following “Froggy” already, well… you should be. As you know, here on ChellyWood.com, we’ve been making a tutu, swimsuit, and/or figure skating leotard for 28″ Barbie dolls (or similar-sized dolls), and as part of the outfit, you will need a no-sew doll tutu. Today’s tutorial video was made by the … Continue reading #FridayFollow : Make a #NoSew #Dolls’ Tutu with MyFroggyStuff–an amazing YouTuber!

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