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Make a pretty “beach hat” for Ideal Pepper dolls w/free pattern @ ChellyWood.com #IdealPepper #DollClothesPatterns

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This week I’m giving you a pattern and tutorial video for making a pretty little “beach bonnet” hat that will fit Ideal Pepper dolls and other dolls with a similar head circumference. (See the video for an exact measurement of the head circumference needed.)

An Ideal Pepper doll (the American equivalent of the Patch doll from the UK), sister of Ideal Tammy dolls, walks along a sandy beach. In the scene there's a boat on the water behind her, and a white building towers over a rocky cliff with seagulls soaring around the waves below. Pepper (who looks a lot like Patch) extends one foot out in front of her in a walking action along the sandy stretch of beach. She wears a handmade dress with no sleeves. The dress is made of white cotton, and tiny flowers dance across it in shades of blue, red, pink, and yellow. Her little hat is made of the palest blue, to match one of the blue flowers in her dress. The brim of her bonnet is turned up, and she wears little white plastic sneakers with blue soles. The whole outfit is a color display with a focus on the blues and whites. In the lower right corner is the ChellyWood.com logo.
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 first posted this pattern here when I was designing a suffragist costume, from the early 20th century, for my Monster High / Ever After High dolls:

With a watery blue background behind her, an Ever After High doll seems to be strolling along in a 1920's dress that has a low waist to the pinafore and a long-sleeved shirt beneath. She wears a pair of loafers that match her turquoise blue hat. The hat is worn at a slight angle, with the brim flipped back to expose her lovely eyes. The watermark on this photo reminds us to visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

But I think this hat makes the perfect “beach bonnet” for Pepper, and with summer arriving here in the northern hemisphere, I thought it would be a good idea to revise my video to suit Pepper.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with her, Pepper is the little sister doll for Ideal Tammy, “The doll you love to dress!”

I’ve been told that Pepper can swap clothes with Patch, the little sister of Sindy (the United Kingdom version of Tammy). And although I don’t own her either, I’m pretty sure Pepper’s friend Dodi can wear Pepper’s clothes as well.

Your doll can wear her “beach bonnet” with the brim flipped up, or she can wear it with the brim down, as shown below…

An Ideal Pepper doll stands on a sandy beach with a rocky shoreline in the distance behind her. The dress she wears is a handmade cotton pinafore-style sundress with a pretty matching beach hat. The doll stands facing to one side, so we can see that her bonnet covers her face, almost like a Victorian or Edwardian bonnet of a bygone era.
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.

And for anyone who wants to make the whole outfit–including the dress–yes, it will be available here, on ChellyWood.com, starting tomorrow!

To make this hat, you’ll need some 1/8 inch ribbon and cotton fabric.

Today’s hat pattern will fit these dolls:

Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and links to some helpful tutorial videos:

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This is a free JPG pattern image for the PDF version, which you can use to sew a "saucy" hat for your Monster High or Ever After High dolls. The pattern includes two top pieces, two brim pieces, and a crown piece. The pattern is marked with a measurement tool for easy printing, and each pattern piece also has the Creative Commons Attribution mark on them. This pattern comes from ChellyWood.com, where you can find free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.
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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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.

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.

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.

Snapstar dolls are produced by Yulu International Limited of Hong Kong, and that company holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Yulu Toys website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Project MC Squared dolls are products offered by MGA Entertainment, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Project MC Squared website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

According to Wikipedia, “Ideal Toy Company was an American toy company founded by Morris Michtom and his wife, Rose. During the post–World War II baby boom era, Ideal became the largest doll-making company in the United States.” They produced the Tammy family line of dolls, including Ideal Pepper dolls, but eventually the Tammy line of dolls went out of production (with the exception of the Sindy doll — the UK version — which has had a recent revival). There have been a complicated series of sales of rights for Ideal toys since then, and you can read about it on Wikipedia, if you’re interested. But at the time of this blog post, the trademark name “Tammy” for these dolls was abandoned and has remained “dead” (according to the US Trademark database) since 2004.

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