Please scroll down to the second set of bullets for the free printable PDF sewing pattern and links to any additional relevant tutorial videos.
This week I’m featuring the Sunshine Family vintage dolls from the 1970’s. Did you have a Sunshine Family? If so, please share your memories in the comments!
Today’s free pattern will fit the following dolls:
- Monster High female dolls (but the pants fit like capris)
- 8 inch Bratz dolls
- Ever After High dolls (again, the pants fit like capris)
- Kuu Kuu Harajuku 9.5 inch dolls
- 8 inch Breyer Rider dolls
- Spin Master La Dee Da dolls
- Disney 9 and a half inch fairy dolls like Tinkerbell
- Mattel’s 9 inch Stacie dolls
- Hasbro World of Love vintage dolls
- vintage Sunshine Family dolls
Here are the free printable PDF doll clothes sewing patterns for making the outfit shown:
- Free patterns for the shirt (use view A, B, and C shirt pattern)
- Free PDF sewing pattern for making the pants (use ankle pants length for full-length pants)
- Free tutorial video showing you how to make the shirt (uses a different pattern, but instructions are the same)
- Free tutorial video showing you how to make the pants
- Free tutorial video showing how to sew snaps on your shirt
- Free tutorial showing how to do a whipstitch hem
- Free tutorial video showing you how to use elastic with a casing
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Here’s an image of another view of the pants on a Sunshine Family doll for easy pinning on Pinterest:
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Stacie, vintage Sunshine Family, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, Monster High, and Ever After High dolls are products offered by Mattel, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Mattel Toys website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Bratz dolls are products offered by MGA Entertainment, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the MGA Entertainment website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Breyer dolls and horses are products offered by Breyer, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Breyer website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Disney fairy dolls are products offered by the Disney Corporation, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Official Shop Disney website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Spin Master La Dee Da dolls are products offered by Spin Master, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Spin Master website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
World of Love is a product that was once owned and distributed by Hasbro, which holds the registered trademark for these retired toys (™). Please visit the Hasbro Toy website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
My younger sister had the family and I seem to remember that she had the house. They were the parents of her soft bodied dolls that had a tree house as well as their own baby. It was funny as her dolls had different lives when they interacted with my dolls (who were more actors in my dramadies) than when she played with them on her own.
My cousin also played like the Sunshine Family mom and dad were parents for some tiny “treehouse” dolls. What a small world, right?
I looked up the children dolls. They were the Honey Hill Bunch dolls.
Yes! Those were the ones! Honey Hill Bunch!
hi iam still playing with the sunshine family –also have grandma and grandma sunshine
Don’t you just love the grandma and grandpa? It was a brilliant idea! I wish more doll companies offered them.
I have an extensive collection of Sunshine Family and the related Star Spangled dolls. I am sewing up a storm lately for updated clothes for my granddaughter and I to play. Your site is amazingly helpful!
Oh, I’m so glad! When I was a little girl, I adored my Sunshine Family! They were the first dolls I ever took photos of.
Here in Spain we also had the “Familia Feliz” with Juan, Ana and Dulce in the late 70’s. My sister and I were great fans and handcrafted lots of furniture and accesories with whatever material we could recycle, clothes pins for example. We kept the dolls for our kids and they also enjoyed them. Now, after so much use, joints and hairs are in really bad shape.
¡Me alegro mucho que sus hijos también hayan podido experimentar la diversión de estas muñecas de “Familia Feliz”! Gracias María por compartir tu recuerdo.
In English: I’m so glad your children got to experience the fun of these “Familia Feliz” dolls too! Thank you, Maria, for sharing your memory.