Sew a pioneer dress for 8 inch dolls w/today’s free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #PioneerDress #DollClothes

This is a photo of the veterinarian "Laura" character from the Breyer Rider collection, from Breyer, a company best known for its model horses. The photo shows the doll with her hair drawn back in a bun or pony tail, and she wears a long pioneer-style dress with layered skirts and lace trim. The photo is marked with the Chelly Wood logo, indicating that the sewing pattern for making this pioneer dress is found at the free doll clothes pattern website, ChellyWood.com
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

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When my oldest daughter was in middle school, about 8 or 10 years ago, she was a big fan of Breyer model horses and Breyer Rider dolls. That’s when I made a lot of these doll clothes for the Breyer riders.

Back in those days, my website was more of a sewing journal than a place for people to locate free patterns. So my patterns were hand-drawn and they didn’t have all the instructions that I place on patterns today.

Well I’ve added a few instructions to today’s free pattern, but the original hand-drawn shapes remain. I hope you don’t mind.

My daughter, I think, will find this pattern nostalgic! Here’s the original photo I used, back when I first posted this pattern:

In a winter setting with snow all around, an 8 inch Breyer Rider figure with auburn red hair holds a pink satin drawstring purse. She wears a short riding hood style cape made of white cotton jersey fabric with pink satin hood lining and embroidery around the edge of the hood. She also wears a pretty blue dress with pink flowers and a pink petticoat that's trimmed in white lace and blue ribbons. We're not able to see it in the photo, but she also wears lacy bloomers under her petticoats. Her pink shoes peek out under the long skirt of her dress.
Click here to find all the patterns and tutorials you’ll need to make this project: https://wp.me/p1LmCj-FiH

Since this “pioneer dress” uses a lot of lace, I’m planning to post a YouTube tutorial tomorrow that offers tips on sewing with lace. Hopefully you’ll enjoy that.

Today’s project will require the use of a printed cotton fabric, a solid cotton fabric, some lace trim, and size 1/0 Dritz snaps.

Today’s free pattern will fit the following dolls:

Here’s the free printable PDF doll clothes sewing pattern for making today’s doll clothes:

For the drawstring purse, use the rectangle that looks sort of like a business card as your pattern. That’s the rectangle found directly under the word “Style” on the pattern.

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This is the JPG image version of a free printable PDF sewing pattern for a pioneer style long dress to fit 8 inch dolls. The pattern includes a bonnet pattern as well, and it's marked with Creative Commons Attribution marks. Visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns for this and other doll clothes.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

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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.

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