Well, today’s free PDF pattern (scroll down to the second bulleted list for the PDF) will fit a lot of different dolls, including but not limited to the following:
- 8″ Bratz dolls
- 9″ Stacie dolls
- 10″ Monster High dolls
- 10″ Disney Princess dolls (cuff doesn’t fit dolls with wide fingers)
- 6″ vintage Stacie dolls from the 1990’s (View A in the image above shows how it fits)
- 8″ World of Love dolls from Hasbro
- 10″ La Dee Da dolls (it fits a little big on them)
- 8″ Breyer Rider dolls
- 6″ Breyer Rider dolls (but it fits them a little biggish too)
- 8.5″ Wizard of Oz dolls (from Mego Corp)
This pattern would make a fantastic Easter dress for your dolls! Which of these three fabrics would you choose for an A-line Easter dress? Feel free to leave a comment below the blog post!
Without further ado, here are the patterns and tutorials you’ll need to make this week’s free dress pattern to fit one of the dolls mentioned in the bulleted list above:
- Free printable PDF pattern for A-line small doll’s dress
- Tutorial showing how to make the sleeveless version of the dress (View A)
- Tutorial showing how to make the dress with cuffs (View B)
- Tutorial showing how to make the dress with flutter sleeves (View C)
Would you like to know more about the Easter fabrics I posted a picture of above?
In the upper-right corner is a classic cotton Easter egg printed fabric. I bought this at North Coast Antique Mall, in Long Beach, Washington. This Antique store has lots of dolls for collectors of every kind, but my favorite room was stocked to the brim with antique fabrics!
The green keepsake calico cotton fabric with white dots you can purchase online at JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts. (Use the link there.)
But the yellow heirloom fabric with white and black splotches is a mystery to me. My daughter made a dress out of it, and she had a little left over. So she gave me some scraps for doll clothes projects. Does anyone know where she bought that beautiful and unusual fabric? If so, please leave a comment below!
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Possibly the yellow material is from a flour sack. Do you think? In the late 1970s, I had opportunity to see real flour sacks in real use as flour sacks! I saved one, a yellow one, to make a very simple dust cover for my sewing machine.
It’s certainly possible. I know that my daughter bought this material at JoAnn Fabrics here, in Idaho, but JoAnn’s has been running a lot of retro re-issued fabric design patterns in the past five or so years. So maybe they did a re-issue of a flour sack pattern.
What a cool thought! Thanks for sharing your idea here!
Hi! I’m interested in scaling up this pattern to fit a real person- with the measurement tool, is it supposed to be cut out and used that way, or is it meant to show you the scale of the pattern? I just need to know how many inches each side is.
Wow! That’s an ambitious goal!
The measurement tool is meant to help you print the pattern, especially if you have to print the pattern in portions. Most people living outside the USA use different paper sizes than we use in the United States. My measurement tool helps them decide whether or not they’ve printed the pattern correctly.
Once you print, you lay a ruler down beside the measurement tool. If the ruler in your hand and the measurement tool “ruler” on the pattern match, you’ve printed the pattern correctly.
That’s how my measurement tool works.