Let’s sew a summer dress for Moana 10 inch dolls w/free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #DollClothesPatterns #Aloha

Here stands a Moana 10 inch doll wearing a red and white plaid cotton dress. The bodice of the dress wraps around the doll's bosom and tiny red ribbon straps hold the bodice up. The skirt of the plaid dress comes to just above the knee and has only a few gathers at the waist. She wears black Mary Jane style handmade shoes. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in the corner. The doll's hair is braided into lots of tiny braids that have been pulled back in a single pony tail at the nape of the doll's neck.
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I first designed this dress pattern to fit the Rainbow High dolls but guess what… It also fits my 10 inch Moana!

How cute is she in this pretty little plaid dress for summer? I ❤️ it!

To make today’s “Aloha” plaid dress for your 10 inch Moana doll, you’ll need some cotton fabric, 1/8 inch ribbon, and Dritz size 2/0 snaps.

Today’s patterns will fit these dolls*:

Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfit shown in the video at the top of this page:

But what if you like this pattern well enough, but you wish the skirt was a little fuller, like the skirt in the image below?

A ten inch Disney Moana doll models a handmade dress with a pair of handmade Mary Jane style shoes. The dress is a strappy sun dress with a full skirt, and the fabric it's made of has flames leaping up in shades or orange, red and yellow with a barely-visible black background behind the flames. The black Mary Jane shoes have straps made of black elastic with white crisscross patterns.
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.

Making skirts fuller (or longer or shorter) is a whole section of information provided in my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course on the Creative Spark Online Learning platform. Click on that link to learn more.

It’s not hard at all to turn Moana’s little narrow sun dress into one with a full skirt, like you see below. And you can expand your doll’s wardrobe to include shirts with different sleeve lengths, pants, shorts, and skirts, once you’ve mastered the skill of doll clothes pattern alteration.

In this close-up photograph of the skirt of Moana's little above-the-knee sun dress, we see that the skirt is made of extra cotton fabric, which has been gathered at the waist, to create a very full puffy skirt that would twirl when a girl spins around in circles. It's a lovely fabric, and in close quarters like this, we see that the yellows and oranges blend to form the flames that leap up on the dress in a powerful statement of "girl power."
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.

Okay, so maybe you’re not ready to take a course in doll clothes pattern alterations. You can still help support this free doll clothes sewing pattern website when you pinlike, or tweet about my free patterns and tutorials. Here are JPG images of today’s free patterns, which you’re welcome to share on social media:

This is the JPG version of a free printable PDF sewing pattern for making Rainbow High doll clothes; specifically, you can use this pattern to make short dresses for 10 inch dolls like Rainbow High dolls, that have a curvy figure with a small upper body and wide hips. For the free printable PDF sewing patterns for making these doll clothes for your Rainbow High dolls or similar sized dolls, please go to ChellyWood.com and look in the 10 inch doll clothes pattern gallery. This particular doll clothes pattern will make a short, above-the-knee dress, with a heart-shaped bodice and straps. The strap pattern is optional, and the free tutorial video that accompanies this pattern (found at Chelly Wood 1 on YouTube) suggests using a 1/8 inch or 3.1 millimeter wide ribbon for your doll dress's straps. This free printable Rainbow High doll clothes pattern is marked with the Creative Commons attribution symbol.
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, but the links below do not necessarily help support this website (whereas the links in the bulleted list at the top DO support this website, as the top links are affiliate marketing links).

Skipper, Petite Barbie dolls, Creatable World, 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.

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.

Disney Princess, Moana, and Disney fairy 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.

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

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