Make my harlequin costume and miniature wine bottle w/today’s free patterns and tutorial videos @ ChellyWood.com #Harlequin #DollClothesPatterns

This is a photo of Samson holding a bottle of wine, from the stop motion YouTube video, "Romeo and Juliet with Dolls," produced by Chelly Wood of ChellyWood.com (a website for free printable PDF sewing patterns for making doll clothes). The costume this Barbie doll wears includes a hooded cloak or cape, a harlequin tunic, a pair of bi-colored pants, and high boots. There are green pumpkins in the village square behind the doll. She holds a handmade wine bottle made of a wine cork, clay, and paper labels. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in the corner of this image.
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In my Romeo and Juliet with Dolls stop motion video, there’s a minor character, Samson, who “begins the fray” in the marketplace, by biting his thumb. This character is played by a Barbie (shown above), wearing what I like to call my “Harlequin” costume (because of the fabric I used for the shirt).

Now, in recent weeks, I gave you the harlequin costume alone, which is shown in the image below. It consists of a tunic with a harlequin-style medieval print, and a pair of wine-and-white bi-colored pants or trousers.

In this photo, a blond, curly-haired Barbie with tan skin tone models a pair of bi-colored trousers in the colors burgundy and white. She also wears a puff-sleeve tunic that stops at the waist but has very long sleeves that puff at the top of each sleeve. The pattern on her tunic or blouse is a multi-colored diamond shaped repeating pattern, reminding us of Renaissance harlequin costumes.
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There’s more to Samson’s costume than just the tunic and pants though. Have a look:

In this square frame, a Barbie dressed in Renaissance clothing including the harlequin tunic (top/shirt), bicolor pants, and high boots, spreads her hooded cloak out so we can see that the grey cloak is lined with white cotton. She stands in the village square from the stop motion video, "Romeo and Juliet with Dolls" and the ChellyWood.com logo appears in the corner of the photo.
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He wears a beautiful hooded cloak in Romeo and Juliet With Dolls as well, and he carries a sword, which I made also, and for which I have a DIY tutorial video:

Please be aware that some of these earlier tutorial videos are very amateur. Back when I made my “Barbie Swords” video, I didn’t own any of the fancy software I use today, and this ChellyWood.com blog was really just about my personal sewing journey more than the library of free doll clothes patterns that it has become today.

So please be forgiving of the quality of my earlier tutorials.

But so many of you have reached out and asked me to convert my older patterns to PDFs, so you can download and use them without converting them yourselves. So I’ve taken it upon myself to re-post these very old blog posts and tutorials, which is what I’m doing today.

In the past, I’ve also offered my “How to Make 1:6 Scale Wine Bottles” tutorial whenever I’ve posted patterns for characters from the marketplace scene in Romeo and Juliet With Dolls because, as you can see below, my handmade wine bottles were part of the marketplace set.

On the set of Romeo and Juliet with dolls, we see the Barbie who is dressed as "Samson", wearing her harlequin costume with bi-colored trousers, a cape, and a puff-sleeved tunic. Behind her is a wicker basket full of bottled wine (wine bottles made of cork and clay). The Montague family crest hangs on the wall of the stucco house behind her. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in one corner. This is a photo from the stop motion video, "Romeo and Juliet with Dolls" produced by Chelly Wood.
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 guess that’s enough introduction to today’s free patterns and tutorials.

If you want to make this Renaissance Faire costume, the tunic and bi-colored pants will require some solid colored cotton in two different shades for the bi-colored trousers, along with a printed fabric for the tunic. Both of these garments will also require some Dritz snaps.

Now the cloak uses solid-colored flannel on the outside, white cotton for the lining, and these tiny decorative clasps for the closure.

For the wine bottles, I used air-dry clay and an actual cork from my own wine bottles (which is actually about the right size for the body of the wine bottle, in 1:6 scale). I also printed out an actual Renaissance wine label, downsized the images, and glued them onto my wine bottles with Elmer’s glue.

 

I used cranberry colored acrylic paint applied with acrylic paint brushes to give the wine bottles their color, although I think they turned out a little too brown-looking. There are bound to be better paint options than what I came up with. Feel free to offer your ideas in the comments, if you can think of a better way to paint the wine bottles! I’m up for ideas there!

Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:

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

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Image of a Barbie doll wearing a harlequin-style costume
Image: My Own Design

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Queens of Africa dolls are products offered by the Slice by Cake company, which holds the trademark for them (™). They were designed by Taofick Okoya. Please visit the Queens of Africa website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys, books, and fashions.

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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.

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