Sew a dress with a collar and zipper for Lottie dolls w/FREE pattern @ ChellyWood.com #TinyThings #DollClothesPatterns


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Today’s pattern makes such a lovely little dress! But I’m also really excited about today’s tutorial, which will show you how to create a collar from bias tape, as well as how to stitch a 3-inch zipper into a doll’s dress.

Both the bias tape collar and the zipper are firsts for my website, so even if you’re not sewing for Lottie dolls, you may learn a lot by watching today’s tutorial.

In this photograph, a Lottie doll (made by Arklu) wears a handmade yellow dress with a black collar, a full skirt, and black very short sleeves. The yellow cotton fabric of the dress appears to have teeny-tiny little black and white dots decorating the marigold yellow fabric. The doll's shoes appear to be black flats. The Lottie doll has long brown hair with bangs. She stands before a light blue background, on a white flat surface. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in one corner of the photo.
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 this pretty little dress project, you’ll need some small print cotton fabric , a 3-inch zipper, and either 1/2 inch bias tape that’s not folded or 1/4 inch folded bias tape.

Please note: you may want some tulle, as well, which will make your skirt very full. However this is optional.

Today’s pattern will fit these dolls:

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Here we see a dress pattern, which includes two parts for the bodice, a single skirt piece (which instructs to be cut on the fold), and two different lengths of sleeves. The pattern is shown on two different dolls: a Breyer Rider and a Kuu Kuu Harajuku G doll. It can also fit Monster High, Ever After High, and a number of other small-bodied dolls. The pattern is marked with Creative Commons Attribution symbols and the Chelly Wood dot 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.

If you sort of like this pattern, but you really wish it was a little bit different… hold that thought! What you’re doing in your mind is called pattern alteration, and I actually teach a class on that very concept! Click here for more information.

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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.

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

Stacie, Janet, Wee 3 Friends, Monster High, Ever After High, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, and vintage Sunshine Family 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.

World of Love is a product that was once owned and distributed by Hasbro, which holds the registered trademark for these retired toys (™). Please visit the Hasbro Toy website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

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.

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