Please scroll down to the second set of bullets for the free printable PDF sewing patterns and links to any additional relevant tutorial videos.
If this dress looks familiar, it first appeared here, on ChellyWood.com, when I made a pattern for this dress, to fit the Rainbow High dolls. To my surprise, the same pattern will also fit my vintage Pepper doll.
For those of you who collect vintage dolls, you’ll already know that Pepper is the younger sister of vintage Tammy dolls, from Ideal Toy Corporation. She doesn’t have a bosom, but the darts in this dress are so small that they really don’t change the way the dress fits Pepper much.
To make this little holiday dress for your vintage Ideal Pepper doll, you’ll need some cotton fabric, 1/8 inch ribbon, and Dritz size 2/0 snaps.
Today’s free patterns will fit the following dolls:
- Disney fairy 9 inch dolls (like the little Tinkerbell dolls)
- vintage Sunshine Family adult female dolls
- Disney’s 10 inch Moana dolls
- Ideal’s vintage Pepper dolls
- Rainbow High 10 and a half inch dolls
Here’s the free printable PDF doll clothes sewing pattern for making today’s doll clothes and links to the tutorials you’ll need:
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for a short strappy dress
- Tutorial video showing how to make the dress (it shows Rainbow High in the video, but yes, this dress does fit Pepper too)
- Tutorial video showing how to do a whipstitch
- Tutorial video showing how to sew snaps on fabric
- 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, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, Monster High, and Ever After High 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.
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.
At the time of this blog post, the Vogue Ginny doll is no longer made, and there is not a working trademark for these dolls. If anyone knows additional information about these dolls and their current status, please leave a comment below. I’d love to learn more about the company and its dolls, but as they went out of production prior to the popularity of the internet, there’s not much to learn about them online. Click here to find out what Doll Reference has to say about them and their history.