Super simple sewing tutorial for 18 inch dolls: felt crop top with free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #LearningToSew #DollClothesPatterns

 

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Today’s sewing tutorial shows how to make a super simple crop top out of craft felt for an 18 inch doll. It’s an ideal sewing tutorial for anyone who’s teaching a child to sew or learning how to sew for themselves.

In this photograph, we see a close-up image of an 18 inch doll with platinum blond hair. She has curly short bangs (fringes). She wears a light purple felt sleeveless crop top. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in one corner of the image. The doll is turned to the viewer's right just a bit, with both arms at her sides. She looks up and to the viewer's left. The crop top is worn over a barely-visible white jersey fabric garment with an elastic waist. It's dotted with large donuts and it has a purple stripe running behind the donuts.
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.

My cousin, who runs the YouTube channel ASMR Tingle and Taps requested that I make a Halloween costume for 18 inch dolls, and this project is the first in a series of sewing projects that will create a super cute Halloween costume for my 18 inch Madame Alexander doll (similar in body type to an American Girl doll).

Just in case you’re wondering what ASMR is, the ASMR Tingle and Taps channel is designed for people who have insomnia and need to hear quiet, repetitive sounds, in order to go to sleep. If you struggle with insomnia, my heart goes out to you because I’ve had the same problem for many years — since I was a little girl, in fact.

I often use ASMR to help me sleep, and my cousin’s channel, ASMR Tingle and Taps is one of my favorites!

But let’s get back to today’s tutorial and free patterns…

Today’s crop top shirt is similar to the felt shirt that I designed to go with my pajama set and my “beach comber” shorts set, but today’s crop top shirt is shorter than the other felt shirt patterns I’ve offered here before.

If you’re just learning how to sew, felt is probably the easiest fabric to work with. And today’s project is made out of felt and only requires a little bit of sewing. Plus, look how cut it is!

Here we see a close-up image of an 18 inch doll with platinum blond hair modeling a light purple felt sleeveless crop top. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in one corner of the image. The doll is turned slightly to the viewer's left, with one hand extended a bit. The crop top is sleeveless and has a simple scoop neckline. It does not have any hems.
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.

To make today’s super simple crop top for your 18 inch dolls, all you’ll really need is some craft felt and a few Dritz size 1/0 sew-on snaps.

To see all of my 18 inch doll clothes patterns, please click here. And if you’re new to my website, this tutorial will show you how to navigate the site efficiently.

Today’s free printable PDF doll clothes sewing patterns will fit the following dolls:

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If you’re sewing your shirt by hand (i.e. hand stitching), you might find these tutorials helpful also:

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This is the JPG image version of a free printable PDF sewing pattern for making a super simple felt crop top to fit your 18 inch dolls like Adora Amazing dolls, American Girl dolls, Journey Girls, and more. The pattern is marked with Creative Commons Attribution symbols and the ChellyWood.com logo. Visit Chelly Wood dot com for the free printable PDF sewing patterns for making these doll clothes for your 18 inch dolls.
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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.

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

Adora Amazing Girls are products offered by Charisma Brands, LLC, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit their website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Our Generation Journey Girls are products offered by Geoffrey, LLC (affiliated with Tru Kids Brands and Toys R Us), which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit their website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

“My Life As” dolls are products offered by Walmart, which (although I couldn’t find it specifically listed in US trademarks) probably holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit their website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

City Girls are products offered by The New York Doll Collection, Inc, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit their website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Madame Alexander 45 to 46 cm dolls were products that were once offered by the Madame Alexander Doll Company, LLC, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Be advised that at the time of this blog post, they no longer (to my knowledge) offer dolls in that size range; however you can visit their website to learn more about their company and the trademarked toys they are currently offering.

BFC Ink dolls are products that were once offered by MGA Entertainment, Inc., which held the registered trademark for them (™), but those dolls are no longer produced, and as of this blog post date, the US Trademark Office has listed the trademark as “Cancelled.” However MGA Entertainment, Inc. still produces toys, and you can visit their website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Vintage Crissy Dolls are products that were once offered by Ideal Toys, Inc., but according to DollReference.com, they were “acquired by the CBS Toy Company in 1982, which eventually merged with Mattel in 1992.”1 Today Mattel holds the registered trademark for them (™). As far as I know, though, these dolls have not been produced since the 1970’s. However, you can always visit the Mattel website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Footnote 1: “Ideal Dolls 1970s.” Doll Reference, 28 August 2022, https://dollreference.com/ideal_toy_dolls1970s.html

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