Upcoming Tutorials, Videos, Projects, and Patterns

In this photo, the Chelly Wood doll (actually a Spin Master Liv doll that has had its face re-painted and its wig dyed grey to look like the doll clothing designer, YouTuber, and writer Chelly Wood) stands in her sewing room with her arms spread out wide in a welcoming stance. On the doll's right (your left) we see her hutch filled with tiny folded fabrics. There's a window directly behind her. At her side is her sewing desk with tiny fabrics, a miniature sewing machine, and other sewing supplies on top. To her left (your right) behind the doll, there's a sea blue mannequin displaying an in-progress sun dress with a tape measure around the mannequin's neck. Hanging from a sea blue hanger on the wall is the white party dress with tiny polka dots that often appears in Chelly's videos on the mannequin. The floor is hard wood. The wall is purple. Chelly's desk chair has been upholstered in sea blue fabric. In the corner of the image is the logo for 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.

Today I’m going to give you a brief preview of the many projects I’m working on behind the scenes.

As I’ve said in a previous blog post, I’ve started filming for my next class. That takes a lot of time and concentration, so I have to get lots of blog post materials prepped before I start to work on my Creative Spark coursework.

And here’s what I’ve prepared…

Some of you have requested free doll clothes patterns for Vogue Ginny dolls. Instead of creating a whole bunch of new patterns, I went through my already-designed doll clothes and tried them on Ginny to see what fits her.

I have created a whole video, showing my new Ginny doll‘s unboxing, plus you can watch me try different doll clothes on her to see which dolls she can swap clothes with!

The image shows a Vogue Ginny doll wearing a handmade dress and pinafore. This is a pre-view of an up-coming blog post, in which Chelly Wood will offer free patterns and tutorials for making this pretty pioneer style dress and pinafore apron for your Vogue Ginny dolls.
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.

That video was a ton of fun to make! I mean, who doesn’t enjoy playing dress up with a new dolly? Right!?

So over the course of the coming month or so, I’ll be giving you patterns for Ginny. They may seem like repeat blog posts, but they’ll be new in the sense that I’ve never had a Ginny doll to make clothes for before.

I’ve also been joyfully playing around with some of my old patterns, mixing and matching these with the patterns I’ve designed, to come up with a whole wardrobe for Barbie.

I plan to do some blog posts on wardrobe-related topics.

"Doll Wardrobe" is the heading for this photo. It's a picture of the Chelly Wood doll (actually a Spin Master Liv doll) standing beside a long string of doll clothes, which include (left to right), a maroon-colored floral long skirt, a pink blouse with short raglan sleeves, a maroon tank top, a pink "jumper" (American sense of the word "jumper"), and a maroon-pink-white multicolored short skirt.
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.

Here are a few blog post ideas I’d like to write about in the next couple of months or so:

  • How to choose mix-and-match fabrics for a doll’s wardrobe
  • How to package a handmade doll wardrobe for gift-giving or sales
  • How to sew doll straps and belts
  • Tips and tricks for sewing tiny doll clothes

I also want to show you what I’ve learned while sewing with my vintage patterns. For example, this beautiful blouse was made using my Simplicity 5731 vintage Tressy doll clothes patterns:

The Chelly Wood doll stands in front of a clothes line with doll clothes hanging from handmade miniature hangers. She holds up a white blouse that's about the right size for a typical fashion doll like Barbie. The blouse has a ruffled collar, sleeves that end in a ruffle of lace, and a ribbon that runs down the front of the blouse with lace ruffles trickling down the length of the ribbon on either side of the ribbon.
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.

Tressy is not Barbie, though, so I wanted to see which modern dolls will fit in this blouse. I’ve got a whole bunch of try-on pictures to show you!

Here’s an image of my original vintage Tressy pattern, which I used for the blouse:

In this image, the Chelly Wood doll (a Spin Master Liv doll that has had her face repainted and her wig dyed grey to look like the real doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood) holds up Simplicity "Tressy" doll clothes pattern number 5731 with 7 different doll clothing items pictured on the front of the pattern.
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.

To make that white blouse, I used the patterns for View 2 in that Simplicity 5731 Tressy wardrobe. Are you curious which dolls will fit this blouse? I’ll share that information later on…

And you may have recognized in a previous photo in this blog post, that I also created the jumper! (For those of you outside the US, we Americans use “jumper” for a dress that has sort of strappy shoulders; we don’t use this word for sweaters.) Look again at View 2, and you’ll see this pink jumper in a sort of grey-blue color:

The Chelly Wood doll points to a pink dress. In America, we would call this type of dress (that's sort of strappy at the shoulders and is intended to go over the top of a blouse) a "jumper," but in the UK they don't say "jumper" for this type of dress. The dress, which is very straight (not flared or A-line at all) is pink with tiny multi-colored polka dots.
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.

I’m not sure what I’m going to blog about, with regards to that adorable jumper, but I’ll come up with something!

And I recently invented a pattern for (and created a tutorial video for) making cloth-covered hangers. It was a fun and surprisingly simple project, that I can’t wait to share with you!

The words "cloth covered hanger" are at the top of this photo. In the photo, we see a close-up of a handmade cloth-covered hanger, and on the hanger is a pink dress. The Chelly Wood doll (actually a Spin Master Liv doll) points at the hanger.
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.

So those are just a few of the blog posts I plan to write in the next few weeks.

If you have questions, or topics you’d like me to cover, feel free to leave a comment below. Another way to reach out, is through my contact page.

 

2 thoughts on “Upcoming Tutorials, Videos, Projects, and Patterns

  1. I read with interest your mention of how to do a mix-and-match doll wardrobe. Several months ago I was trying to do so with the colors yellow & orange to coordinate with Samatha’s meet shoes (A Girl for All Time 1960s doll). I seem to have tons of orange fabric and a few yellow fat quarters so I did a Pinterest search on orange doll clothes. Since then I purchased Etsy shoes & found that 20″ Maru & Friends wear the same shoes after I purchased the company shoes for my Valentina doll. So I am extremely interested in that topic.

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