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Sew a Valentine’s Day Dress for 11 Inch Fashion Dolls w/FREE Patterns @ ChellyWood.com #ValentinesDay #DollClothes

Here we see a Queens of Africa doll wearing a red cotton pencil-skirt dress with an opaque ribbon tied around the waist. The ribbon is also red with white polka dots. The straps on this pencil-skirt dress's bodice match the polka-dot ribbon tied around the dress's waist. The dress would be perfect for a date on Valentine's Day!
Click here for all the free printable sewing patterns and tutorial videos you’ll need to make this outfit: https://wp.me/p1LmCj-GJ5 (posts on 13 Feb. 2020)

For your free patterns and tutorial videos, please scroll down to the second set of bullets.

Yesterday I showed you how I altered two commercial patterns to come up with today’s Valentine’s Day dress pattern. If you’d like to learn how to alter patterns to fit your dolls, consider taking my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course on Creative Spark.

Another thing I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post was how Butterick doll clothes pattern number 6668 inspired various doll clothes patterns that you can find here, on ChellyWood.com, so are you ready to hear the answer to the question I asked? To refresh your memory, I wanted you to guess which of my patterns were inspired by this commercial pattern:

On close inspection, we see that this is not a vintage doll clothes pattern, but a reproduction pattern. In this close-up photo of Butterick Barbie and Ken clothes pattern number 6668, the following outfits are displayed on drawings of the dolls: View A = jacket with 3/4 length sleeves and two rounded pockets on one side, shirt, and pencil skirt; View B = evening gown (long, strapless) with cummerbund-style sash and tail (not a train but an attachment to the sash); View C = swingy sleeveless short dress with big pockets; View D = business suit for Ken with vest and tie; View E = Tuxedo for ken with cummerbund and bow tie; View F = short sleeved shirt with collar and one pocket plus Bermuda shorts for Ken.
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.

View C is nothing like it (other than the fact that it uses fringe), but it inspired the Kwanzaa poncho pattern that I’ve posted for both Lammily and Barbie dolls.

View F inspired my GI Joe camp shirt project, although my sleeves are significantly different from ones pictured here on an old-school vintage Ken.

And of course E inspired my Tux for Ken, which really needs to be updated here, on ChellyWood.com, so maybe I’ll convert that old JPG pattern to a PDF this Friday… I’ll work on that.

Meanwhile, if you’d like to make today’s Valentine’s Day pencil skirt dress (also inspired by the Butterick  6668 pattern), you’ll need some red cotton fabric, a translucent red 1/2 inch ribbon, and some size 4/0 Dritz snaps. The PDF sewing pattern for making today’s dress is found in the second set of bullets, below.

Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:

Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfit shown at the top of this page:

As always, feel free to pin, like, or tweet about my free patterns and tutorials. Here’s an image of the pattern pieces you’ll need to make today’s project:

This is the JPG image of a PDF sewing pattern that's available at ChellyWood.com as a free downloadable doll clothes sewing pattern to fit dolls in the 11-inch to 11.5-inch size range (28 to 29 cm). This is a pattern for sewing a pencil skirt dress with a simple bodice. The image shows three flowers on the difficulty scale for this website's patterns, for making the pencil skirt dress.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free, printable sewing patterns for making this Valentine’s day dress and other doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

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To honor the trademark rights of the doll companies mentioned in this blog post, I am including links to their websites here. Please feel free to visit their website and consider purchasing one or more of the dolls mentioned.

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.

Momoko dolls are products offered by Petworks, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Momoko Dolls website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

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.

Disney Princess dolls are products offered by the Disney corporation, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Disney Toys website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

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