Sew a flannel bathrobe with pockets for Barbie (free patterns at ChellyWood.com) #DollClothes #FreePatterns #DIYchristmas

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Today’s video tutorial shows you how to make a flannel bathrobe, with side pockets, to fit regular Barbie and Made-to-Move Barbies, but it will fit a lot of other dolls too. Check out the first set of bullets for a more concise list of all the dolls that can wear this bathrobe.

It’s kind of fun to make teeny-tiny pockets in your doll’s bathrobe, and for those of you who are still learning to sew, I think you’ll find that side pockets aren’t as hard to sew as you might think!

A made-to-move Barbie with Asian features wears her black hair in a pony tail. She stands in profile, in front of a vanity mirror over a chest of drawers in perfect 1:6 scale. Beside the chest of drawers is a chair, also made to scale, to fit Barbie. The Barbie wears a cream-colored flannel bathrobe dotted with tiny burgundy polka dots and itty-bitty red cardinals. The doll's left arm reaches around her middle, and her right hand is clearly reaching inside a pocket that's sewn into the side of the bathrobe she wears. Her cream colored felt slippers match her nighttime ensemble.
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I used a small-print flannel from JoAnn’s Fabrics for my “cardinals” version of the nightgown and its matching bathrobe, and I used a solid pink flannel for the other pajamas-with-bathrobe ensemble. Have a look at the pink set:

An African-looking regular Barbie with straight black hair, silver hoop earrings, bright pink lipstick, and a beautiful dark chocolate complexion models a pair of handmade pajamas (white with tiny pink flowers) under a handmade bathrobe (Barbie-doll pink with white trim and a white belt. The wall behind her is mottled turquoise blue; the floor at her bare feet is white like marble. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in one corner.
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You’ll also need some 1/4 inch double-fold bias tape for the edging, which is much easier to see on the pink bathrobe (although I also used it on the “cardinals” bathrobe too). I used the bias tape to make the belt as well, but the belt is optional.

It’s just an afterthought, but if you wanted to, you could loop some 1/8 inch ribbon through the seam, just above your pockets, to create belt loops. I wish I’d thought of that while I was sewing, but it didn’t come to me until right now.

Here we see an African or African American Barbie wearing a handmade pink flannel bathrobe with white trim and a white karate-style belt, worn over white pajama pants that are dotted with hot pink and light pink flowers. Her pajama top (also worn under the bath robe) appears to be made of the same white-with-pink-flowers fabric. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in the lower right corner.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Along with the pajamas she wears under her bathrobe, I made my Barbie some little tiny felt slippers. Ordinary craft felt will work fine for these, and they’re super easy to sew!

The slipper pattern is found on the third page of the patterns’ PDF.

The image shows Mattel's Skipper doll's feet fitting snugly into a pair of slippers made of felt. The pattern for sewing a pair of these easy-to-make felt slippers is found at ChellyWood.com
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You’ll find that the pattern below includes a pattern for angel wings. Every Christmas I plan to create the angel outfit that these wings were meant to go with, and every Christmas I somehow fall short!

But if you haven’t subscribed already, and you want to see the angel wings tutorial, I recommend following my YouTube channel. That way you’ll be one of the first people to see my angel wings tutorial when I finally get it posted.

Last week I gave you the “cardinals” nightgown pattern and tutorial, as shown in the image below:

A made-to-move Barbie with Asian facial features models a just-below-the-knee length sleeveless nightgown. It's made of small print flannel. She also wears tiny felt slippers which match the ivory color of the flannel night gown / pajamas. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in one corner.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

I’ve also got patterns and tutorials for making the pink floral pajamas, which go with the pink bathrobe. Watch for those in the weeks to come.

Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:

Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfit shown at the top of this page:

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A Made-to-Move Barbie stands in a room with a purple mottled wall. There's a vanity dresser with chair beside her, and she's modeling a nightgown with matching bathrobe made of creamy colored flannel fabric dotted with tiny red and burgundy polka dots, grey twigs, and very tiny, even miniature, red cardinals. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in one corner.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Is this pattern close to what you were looking for, but maybe you’re wishing the pattern was slightly different? If so, my Creative Spark class, “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” may be just what you need to make these patterns into the pattern you see in your imagination.

The image shows a soft doll laying on a cutting mat. Beside her is a pen and pencil, a pair of handmade doll shorts, and a pair of handmade doll pants. A woman's right hand points to a pants pattern which is laying on top of a shorts pattern, as if she is somehow comparing the two paper doll clothes patterns: the shorts pattern and the pants pattern. Beside the woman's right hand is a ruler with imperial and metric measurements. The words to the left of this image say, "Chelly's Class: How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns" and beneath the photo is the following URL: https://creativespark.ctpub.com/
Visit CreativeSpark.CTpub.com or ChellyWood.com to learn more about Chelly Wood’s class entitled, “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns.”

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It’s a one-time fee for the course, and there’s no specific time limit to finish your course. You can just take your time and learn at the pace that suits you. So go check out my paid courses on Creative Spark, using this link.

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This is a JPG image of a free PDF Barbie doll clothes sewing pattern that can be downloaded and printed at ChellyWood.com. The pattern includes the front pieces for a pair of high-waisted shorts with a fly, a pair of capri pants with a high waist and a fly, the front piece for a bathrobe, and a slipper pattern. In order to get all of the pattern pieces, you will need to download the PDF sewing pattern, which is free at ChellyWood.com
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns 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.

Queens of Africa dolls are products offered by the Slice by Cake company, which holds the trademark for them (™). They were designed by Taofick Okoya. Please visit the Queens of Africa website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys, books, and fashions.

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

Barbie, MTM Barbie, Francie, Tall Barbie, and Petite Barbie 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.

Liv dolls were products designed and distributed by the Spin Master company, which still makes dolls and toys today (although the Liv dolls are no longer in production at the time of this blog post). The Spin Master company held the trademark for the Liv Dolls (™). Please visit the Spin Master Toys and Games website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys and games. Please be aware that the Chelly Wood animated doll is a Spin Master Liv doll that has been re-painted and had its wig colored to appear to look like the real doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood. This was done as a creative project by Chelly’s daughters, and the Spin Master Toys and Games company was not involved in the doll’s makeover in any way.

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