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Today’s free pattern is for a simple short-sleeved shirt and a pair of elastic-waist shorts that will fit your Disney Princess 10 inch dolls, like Merida and other Disney Princess fashion dolls.
You’ll want to make your shorts out of cotton solid fabric and your top out of cotton small-print fabric, but you could also get creative and mix your patterns and solids for a whole new look.
You’ll also need some 1/8 inch elastic (which I think is probably a better choice than the 1/4 inch elastic that’s mentioned in my tutorial video for making the shorts).
Today’s pattern will fit these dolls*:
- Disney’s 10 inch Moana dolls
- Rainbow High 10 and a half inch dolls
- Strawberry Shortcake 10 and 3/4 inch dolls
- vintage Vogue Ginny 8 inch (20 cm) dolls
- Disney princess 10 inch dolls
Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfit shown at the top of this page:
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for making the shorts
- Tutorial video showing how to sew the shorts
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for making the short-sleeved shirt
- Tutorial video showing how to sew the shirt
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to do a backstitch
- How to pull elastic through a casing
Are you wishing this pattern was just a little different in its design? That’s what my paid course teaches you: “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns.” In fact, we actually use this pattern — YES, this very same pattern — in my course.
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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 as well. It shows the exact same pattern you’ll be using to make these shorts for your Disney Princess dolls, but instead of showing the shorts on Merida, it shows them on Rainbow High dolls, which can fit in today’s patterns as well:
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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).
Merida 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.
Rainbow High dolls are products offered by MGA Entertainment, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Rainbow High website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
At the time of this blog post, the Vogue Ginny doll is no longer made, and there is not a working trademark for these dolls. If anyone knows additional information about these dolls and their current status, please leave a comment below. I’d love to learn more about the company and its dolls, but as they went out of production prior to the popularity of the internet, there’s not much to learn about them online. Click here to find out what Doll Reference has to say about them and their history.
According to Wikipedia (as of 9 January 2022), Strawberry Shortcake “is a cartoon character used in greeting cards published by American Greetings. The line was later expanded to include dolls… The franchise is currently owned by the Canadian children’s television company WildBrain and American brand management company, Iconix Brand Group through the holding company Shortcake IP Holdings LLC.” I was unable to find a website for Shortcake IP Holdings LLC, but I believe they own the US trademark for the dolls, even though I believe my own doll was originally made and marketed by Hasbro. To learn more about these companies and their toys and products, please click on the links I’ve provided within the quote.
Disney Princess 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.