For your free patterns and tutorial videos, please scroll down to the third set of bullets.
That’s right! The tank top pattern I’m sharing with you today is reversible! But please be advised: I’m linking you to a tank top tutorial for making a Bratz-sized tank top. That’s okay though… Bear with me! The patterns look slightly different, but the instructions are exactly the same.
We’ll also learn how to make a pair of 11 inch fashion doll shorts with a front fly. To make today’s doll clothes projects, I recommend that you use the following items:
- small print cotton fabric for the outer fabric
- cotton broadcloth in a solid color for the lining
- Dritz size 2/0 snaps(2 of them)
When buying fabric for a tiny project like this, you may just use scraps, but if you’re buying fabric new, you won’t need much at all. Online you can order a third of a yard and that’s more than enough. (In fact, you’ll have plenty of fabric left over to make another outfit.)
Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:
- Queens of Africa Dolls
- modern and Made-to-Move Barbie dolls
- vintage Barbie dolls
- vintage Francie dolls
- Liv dolls
Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfit shown at the top of this page:
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for an 11 inch fashion doll summer shorts and tank top outfit
- Tutorial video showing how to make the shorts
- Tutorial video showing how to make a reversible tank top (video shows a Bratz doll, but the instructions are identical for today’s tank top pattern)
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to sew snaps on fabric
- How to do a backstitch
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Queens of Africa dolls are products offered by the Slice by Cake company, which holds the trademark for them (™). They were designed by Taofick Okoya. Please visit the Queens of Africa website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys, books, and fashions.
Barbie, MTM Barbie, Francie, and Vintage Barbie 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.
Liv dolls were products designed and distributed by the Spin Master company, which still makes dolls and toys today (although the Liv dolls are no longer in production at the time of this blog post). The Spin Master company held the trademark for the Liv Dolls (™). Please visit the Spin Master Toys and Games website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys and games. Please be aware that the Chelly Wood animated doll is a Spin Master Liv doll that has been re-painted and had its wig colored to appear to look like the real doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood. This was done as a creative project by Chelly’s daughters, and the Spin Master Toys and Games company was not involved in the doll’s makeover in any way.
Will your patterns work for the “Rainbow High Krystal Bailey Indigo Fashion Doll?” She is an 11″ doll.
I think her hips are a little wider than Barbie’s. This tank top is pretty easy to fit most 11 inch dolls — you just make a Velcro closure at the back instead of snaps, and that way you can make adjustments. So you should be safe there.
But for shorts, I would recommend trying my Curvy Barbie shorts pattern instead of this one, to accommodate the Rainbow High doll’s hip size. Here’s a link that may help: https://chellywood.com/2021/06/16/free-summer-top-and-shorts-patterns-for-curvy-freepatterns-dollclothes/
Also, for future reference, I think her bust size is probably closer to Skipper’s. So when you’re searching for dress patterns or shirt patterns, I’d use a Skipper pattern for Rainbow High, instead of a Barbie pattern.
Let me know how your project turns out!