Sew some holiday doll clothes for vintage Strawberry Shortcake dolls w/free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #DollClothesPatterns #StrawberryShortcake

A vintage Strawberry Shortcake doll with a red crop of hair cut in a bob with tiny bangs (fringes for those who live in the UK) models a handmade Easter outfit. She looks slightly to the left of the photographer. Her shirt is made of soft pink felt, as is her jacket, but the jacket is lined with pink cotton and there are tiny embroidered roses with leaves all along the bottom of the felt jacket. Under the jacket, she wears a brighter pink cotton skirt, decorated with tiny Easter eggs of many pastel colors. Her shoes match her jacket.
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I first posted these patterns for my mini Elsa doll around Easter time this past spring, but let’s think outside the box here…

You don’t have to use Easter-egg-print fabric.

Any small print or solid cotton fabric will be just fine. What about a small-print Christmas fabric for the skirt? Use some red, green, or white felt for the little sleeveless top and the embroidered jacket.

In this close image of Strawberry Shortcake, we can see that her felt shoes are made of exactly the same felt as her shirt and her jacket, but the shoes are oddly shaped. The background behind Strawberry Shortcake is a pale blue wall with a white floor. This makes her pink outfit: jacket, shirt, skirt, and shoes really jump out at you. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in one corner of the image.
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You could change the embroidered pink roses on the jacket to holly leaves in Christmas colors too!

Here we see the back of the tiny pink felt jacket. Along the bottom of the back of this jacket, there's a twisty light green vine with leaves, and all along the vine are tiny pink dots, indicating rose buds.
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In the image above, I’m using a detached chain stitch for the leaves and a French knot for the tiny roses. The vine is made using the whipped running stitch. Imagine the vine in a darker green with tiny red French knots as holly berries.

Or you could try the whole outfit in fall colors maybe…

Here we see four fall fabrics. On the left is a cotton made of dark brown with tiny gold polka dots; slightly to the right of that is a grey background cotton with fall leaves and flowers in different shades of gold, blue, orange, and brown; to the right of this one is a burnt umber colored cotton with tiny crosses in a creamy tan color; the farthest right is a deep chocolate brown colored fabric with lighter brown leaves and blue flowers. These four fabrics coordinate well together, as if they were part of a quilter's set.
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 addition to basic fabrics, you’ll also need some size 4/0 snaps to make the back closure for your felt shirt, and you’ll also need a little 1/8 inch elastic for the skirt’s waist.

As you’ll see in the list below, this outfit will fit a lot of dolls in the 5-inch, 6-inch, and even 7-inch size range!

But surprisingly, my little vintage Strawberry Shortcake’s feet actually fit inside these slippers, which I designed to fit my Mattel Barbie and Francie dolls. I just trimmed up the bottom part of the slipper to fit Strawberry Shortcake’s shorter foot.

In this photo, we're looking at a vintage Strawberry Shortcake doll with a close-up on her feet under her tiny Easter egg patterned pink cotton skirt. Her feet are sporting a pair of felt house slippers (the slip on kind) and you can sort of see how the top of the felt slipper has been stitched to the bottom. They are made of soft pink felt, much like her little pink jacket. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in one corner of the image.
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.

 

So you’ll see that Barbie-sized slipper pattern among the patterns and tutorial video links in my second set of bullets below.

Which dolls will these patterns fit?

Free patterns and tutorial videos for making these doll clothes:

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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.

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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.

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.

Enchantimals, vintage Stacie, Heart Family baby dolls, and Chelsea 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 Anna and Elsa mini toddler 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.

Lottie dolls are manufactured and designed by Arklu (Ireland) Ltd., in Donegal, Ireland, and Arklu holds the registered trademark (™) for them in the US. Lottie dolls are distributed in the USA by Schylling, Inc. These dolls are distributed in the UK, Ireland, France, and Italy by Bigjigs Toys Ltd. Visit Lottie.com to learn more about these wonderful toys that were inspired by kids.

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