15-inch doll clothes patterns, Crissy Family of Dolls, Daily Patterns, Tutorials: Sewing for Dolls, Velvet Dolls

Make a pioneer dress for 15 and a half inch (39 cm) dolls with free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #DollClothesPatterns #VintageToys

In this photo, a vintage Velvet doll models a bright blue gingham pioneer style dress. The doll's body is slightly angled to the left. Her hands are at her sides. Peeking out beneath her long skirts, we can barely see the blue felt shoes she wears.
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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If you’re a regular follower of ChellyWood.com, this dress is going to look familiar to you. I first posted these patterns for American Girl’s Wellie Wisher dolls, about a year ago.

But with Easter right around the corner, I thought it might be fun to re-post the patterns and show the dress on another 15 inch doll: Ideal’s Velvet (the younger cousin of Crissy dolls).

Please note the length of the sleeves in the image below. They do fit Velvet a little shorter than they do my Wellie Wisher dolls, so it might be a good idea to attach some lace or eyelet to the ends of each sleeve.

In this photo, a vintage Velvet doll models a bright blue gingham pioneer style dress. The doll faces forward. Her hands are at her sides. Peeking out beneath her long skirts, we can barely see the blue felt shoes she wears.
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.

Need some blue gingham fabric for your sewing project? Click here to purchase navy blue 1/8 inch gingham check cotton-polyester blend fabric (like the fabric I use in my video) on Amazon.

Need some snaps for the back closure area? I recommend Dritz size 2/0 sew-on snaps. With this link, you can buy 10 Dritz size 2/0 sew-on snaps on Amazon.

Today’s free printable PDF doll clothes sewing patterns will fit the following dolls:

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As always, feel free to pin, like, or tweet about my free patterns and tutorials. Here’s an image you’re welcome to share on social media:

This is the bodice and sleeve pattern for making a pioneer-style or Victorian-era dress for Wellie Wishers and similar sized dolls (roughly 14 to 15 inches tall). The bodice and sleeve patterns are all marked with a "Creative Commons Attribution" symbol, and in the center of the pattern it also has a measurement tool. The measurement tool is used for comparing the printed pattern to a ruler or tape measure, to make sure you have printed your pattern accurately to scale. There's also a picture on the pattern. It shows an American Girl Wellie Wishers (Kendall) doll lifting up her skirt to show her dainty felt Victorian boots and her pretty lace-trimmed bloomers. Patterns and tutorials for making the whole outfit can be found at ChellyWood.com, along with hundreds of other free, printable doll clothes sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Here’s another image you’re welcome to share:

Here we have Part 2 of a two-part skirt pattern for a pioneer-style or Victorian era dress for Wellie Wishers. The pattern is watermarked with the website from which this (and hundreds of other) free pattern(s) come from: ChellyWood.com. The pattern is marked with a "Creative Commons Attribution" symbol, and it has a measurement tool on it, so you can compare it to a ruler or tape measure after printing. The instructions on this pattern say "Cut 1 of Gingham Fabric on Fold." It also has a bar on one side that says "Tape Pattern 1 to Pattern 2 along here."
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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.

The Hearts for Hearts Girls, Dolls and Games are owned by the Playmates Company International, which holds the registered trademark for these toys. To learn more about the Hearts for Hearts dolls, please click here.

The Wellie Wishers and the 18 inch American Girl dolls mentioned in this blog post 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.

The Crissy family of dolls which includes dolls like vintage Crissy, Velvet, and other dolls, were produced by the Ideal Toy Corporation, which held the registered trademark for them. That company is no longer producing the dolls, and at the time of this blog post, no known company has purchased the trademark to re-produce these dolls. But if you wish to purchase one, you can sometimes find them on eBay (see link in the first set of bullets).

MGA Entertainment is the company that produced the BFC Ink dolls (which is pictured in my video as my niece, Emily), and it still holds the trademark rights to them (™). The BFC Ink dolls (aka Best Friends Club dolls) were in production, starting in 2009, but at the time of this blog post, they are no longer available in stores. You may be able to find a used one on eBay, though, if you’re thinking about collecting them (see link in the first set of bullets). These dolls can swap clothes with Crissy dolls, but their bodies are much more articulated. They have very lovely faces.

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