Sew a long dress and medieval cloak for Barbie w/free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #RenFaire #DollClothesPatterns

In this photo, we see a modern Barbie (Asian facial features) wearing a wine-colored dress with a scoop neck, long sleeves that are puffy, and cuffs. The dress is floor length and all one color. Over the top of the wine-colored dress, she wears a grey flannel cloak with a white cotton lining. The hood's lining has been folded back to form a simple white edge that frames the doll's lovely fair features and rich black hair. The hood drapes around her head and clasps at the neck with a decorative clasp. The neck of the cape is lined with lace. The doll seems to hold up her skirts as if holding it off the wooden floor at her feet slightly. Behind her is a mottled blue background color. The watermark says "Chelly Wood," reminding us that these doll clothes were made using the free printable PDF sewing patterns found at 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.

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

My medieval-style cloak with a hood has been available here, on ChellyWood.com, for a long time, but only as a JPG image, never as a PDF. Today I’m converting that pattern to a PDF format, for easy download.

The tutorial video, showing how to make the cloak, is one of the earliest ones from my YouTube channel, so please excuse the simplicity of it.

The dress pattern is one you’ve seen before. It’s my basic wedding dress project, but for today’s everyday dress, I used a wine-colored fabric. Any solid-colored cotton fabric will do. You’ll also need a few size 4/0 Dritz snaps to make the dress, and there’s an optional petticoat, which you can create using tulle or lace.

My cape with a hood uses solid-colored grey flannel fabric on the outside (for that fuzzy look that keeps my doll looking all cozy-warm) and plain white cotton fabric for the lining.

I used a little lace trim around the collar of my medieval cloak, and this link will take you to a toggle clasp like the one I used.

Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:

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

Feel free to pinlike, or tweet about my free patterns and tutorials. Here’s a great pattern image to share on social media:

Visit ChellyWood.com for free, printable sewing patterns for dolls of many shapes and sizes. This image shows a lovely African-American doll wearing a white ball gown (reminiscent of wedding gowns, though not particularly adorned). The pattern itself offers a bodice front, bodice back, and sleeve with cuff. The skirt pattern is provided elsewhere. These are pieces to a whole doll gown which is designed to fit playscale sized (1:6 scale) fashion dolls like Mattel's Barbie, the Queens of Africa dolls, Liv dolls from Spin Master, and many similar-sized dolls. A measurement tool is provided with the printable doll dress pattern, to make it easy to tell whether or not the pattern has been printed at the correct scale.
Visit ChellyWood.com for free, printable sewing patterns for dolls of many shapes and sizes.

In case you haven’t heard, my Creative Spark class, “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” is now live on the Creative Spark platform. You can sign up any time you want, and there’s no rush in finishing the class.

Learn how to take my free patterns (and any other patterns you have at home) to the next level, by altering them to suit your creative imagination, when you sign up for “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” with doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood.

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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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