Please scroll down to the second set of bullets for the free printable PDF sewing patterns and links to any additional relevant tutorial videos.
My Sunshine Family “mom doll” is so adorable in my handmade “witchy” costume for Halloween! I just love this outfit on her!
And of course, this outfit will fit a bunch of different dolls in this size range, as you’ll see in the first bulleted section below.
To make this adorable outfit for you Sunshine Family collectible female dolls, you’ll need some cotton fabric for the dress. I used solid cotton for my sleeves and printed cotton for the hat and the main part of the dress.
Here’s a link to small-print cotton Halloween fabric in particular, if that’s what you’re looking for, but the dress would also look cute in any small-print cotton fabric.
I used some 1/2 inch Offray ribbon for the trim at the waistline and the hemline. Plus there’s a row of Dritz 3/0 snaps down the back, and you’ll want some craft foam for your witch hat.
The craft foam is what gives it that stiffness that you see in the photo below:
When you first download the hat pattern, you may think, “This can’t be the right pattern…” but, in fact, it is. I first used that pattern for two of the hats I designed for my stop-motion video, “Romeo and Juliet with Dolls.” Later, I adapted these hats’ patterns for making the witch hat.
Today’s free patterns will fit the following dolls:
- 8 inch Breyer Rider dolls
- Kuu Kuu Harajuku dolls (the dress but not the hat)
- Spin Master La Dee Da dolls (also fits the dress but not the hat)
- Disney 9 and a half inch fairy dolls like Tinkerbell
- Mattel’s 9 inch Stacie dolls
- Mattel’s vintage Skipper dolls
- Hasbro World of Love vintage dolls
- vintage Sunshine Family adult female dolls
- Mego 8-inch female action figures
- 7 inch Lottie dolls (the dress is a bit long on her)
Here’s the free printable PDF doll clothes sewing pattern for making today’s doll clothes, along with some helpful tutorial videos:
- Here’s the free printable PDF sewing pattern for the hat
- Here’s a link to the tutorial showing how to make the hat
- Here’s a link to the free printable PDF sewing pattern for the dress (use View A)
- Here’s a link to the tutorial showing how to make the dress
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to sew snaps on fabric
- How to do a backstitch
- How to gather fabric
- How to do a baste stitch
- How to use a needle threader
- How to do a basic straight stitch
- How to choose fabric
- How to tie a knot using a needle and thread
- How to press seams open, using a hot iron
- How to attach ribbon to doll clothes
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To honor the trademark rights of the doll and action figure 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.
Stacie, vintage Sunshine Family, and Kuu Kuu Harajuku 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.
Bratz dolls are products offered by MGA Entertainment, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the MGA Entertainment website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
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.
Disney fairy dolls are products offered by the Disney Corporation, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Official Shop Disney website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Spin Master La Dee Da dolls are products offered by Spin Master, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Spin Master 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.
Mego action figures are products offered by Mego, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Mego company website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.