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Anna from Frozen II (a mini toddler doll from Disney) seems to be in the middle of a song or dance, as her right hand is extended toward the viewer, her lips are parted, and her left hand is stretched out from her swirly skirt. She wears a white shirt with T-shirt-like sleeves and a tiny floofy harvest-patterned sunflower skirt in the colors maroon (background color), gold (sunflower print) and brown (the center of the tiny sunflowers. She wears maroon plastic flat shoes. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in the lower right corner.
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For her birthday last spring, my niece asked for a few doll clothes for her Arendelle family dolls, because the little Disney mini toddler dolls only had pajamas to wear.

You may remember me posting the tutorial for making a little Easter-egg-print cotton skirt with an elastic waist for the mini Elsa doll. We’ll be using the same tutorial for today’s free pattern, although Anna’s skirt is slightly smaller.

With a surprised look on her face, Anna (from Disney's Frozen II) looks up at the viewer. One hand is behind her back while the other looks like it's about to take hold of her very puffy skirt. The skirt is a reddish-maroon color with a thatch background print and overlapping tiny sunflowers. She wears a white cotton short-sleeved shirt over the top of this skirt, and she also wears maroon flats. She's one of the Disney Mini dolls from the Arendelle family doll package. The doll stands alert in a room with a white floor and a blue mottled wall behind her. The ChellyWood.com logo is in the lower right corner of the image.
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To make today’s skirt, you’ll need some small print or solid cotton fabric and some elastic cord.

We’re using elastic cord because this skirt is soooo teeny-tiny, that I’m not sure 1/8 inch braided elastic will fit through the casing. So here are a few tips on how to use cord elastic…

A woman's hand holds a long strand of white, very thin cord elastic. The ends of the elastic cross near her finger tips.
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As you can see, in the picture above, elastic cord is relatively stiff, so it’s not too hard to just push it through the casing without a safety pin. As you get toward the end, you’ll need to bunch it up a bit and smooth it along the casing, sort of like sealing a Ziplock bag.

Elastic cord has plenty of elasticity to it, but unlike braided elastic, I do recommend that you cut it longer than the casing.

A long strip of fabric with a very tiny casing has the ends of elastic cord hanging out of each end of the casing. A Caucasian woman's hand holds up the strip of fabric, which is a reddish maroon hue dotted with very tiny sunflowers. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in the corner.
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Once you’ve pushed it through the casing, pull it to gather the fabric, knot it at one end, and dab a little fray check or even hot glue on the knot to keep the knot from coming undone.

Once the glue dries, trim away the extra bits of elastic, which you may want to save, to use at the end of a miniature shirt sleeve or something.

In this photo, a woman holds an almost-finished miniature skirt between her thumb and fingers. All we see is her hand and the miniature skirt (not the woman herself). We regard the skirt from the reversed side so the fabric looks somewhat parched rather than fully burgundy colored. We can clearly see the casing, as it has been sewn, and it is all bunched up together with a cord elastic sticking out from both ends of the casing. The two long strands of cord elastic have been knotted, right up close to the casing's edge, and the stringy bits of cord elastic extend out from the knot upward. The skirt has been hemmed, and as we're looking at the underside of the skirt, the hem is viewable. It appears to be a double-fold hem, sewn with a sewing machine. The skirt is so tiny, in its finished form, it will likely be about as long as the woman's whole thumb. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in one corner of this image.
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This is the JPG version of a free printable PDF sewing pattern for making doll clothes to fit dolls in the 4 inch to 5 inch doll size range, including but not limited to Disney's Elsa mini toddler dolls, Disney's Anna mini toddler dolls, Mattel's Chelsea dolls, Mattel's Kelly dolls, and many others. The pattern includes a jacket and two different lengths of skirts. The pattern is marked with the ChellyWood.com logo and several Creative Commons Attribution symbols.
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.

In case you haven’t heard, my Creative Spark class, “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” is now live on the Creative Spark platform. You can sign up any time you want!

And don’t panic if it seems like too much to take on right now — sometimes our lives get really busy. I get that. But for any class on Creative Spark, you don’t have to sign up any time soon. Just sign up when you’re ready.

It’s a one-time fee, and there’s no specific time limit to complete your course. You can just take your time and learn at the pace that suits you.

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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.

Mattel’s Kelly, Heart Family, and Enchantimals 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.

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

Disney’s Elsa and Anna 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.

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