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Last week we saw the little A-line dress shown above on a Ginny Weasley doll from the Harry Potter doll line that Mattel put out in 2018. Today I’ve used the same dress pattern to make this little holiday dress for my Ever After High doll.
And of course, I’ve added a little rickrack to the bottom of the skirt too. If you’d like to learn more about how to apply rickrack, take a look at this video.
But the most interesting feature about this little holly-covered dress, I think, was how I used a very tiny swatch of red and white striped fabric for the bodice’s lining. As you’ll see in figure 1 below, the fabric was oddly-shaped and very tiny:
My mother-in-law gave me this swatch of fabric, and when she handed it to me, she said, “You probably can’t use this. There’s almost nothing there.”
To which I replied, “Oh, I’ll find a use for it!” and as you can see, Figure 2 shows that I was actually able to cut the bodice front on the fold, on that really uneven piece of fabric that stuck out from the rest of the fabric!
And all my lines were going the same direction when I added the bodice backs to the bigger end of the swatch of fabric, so in all, I’d say this was a successful use of that very small, very oddly-shaped fabric scrap!
When a little girl plays with this dress, every time she opens it up to put it on a doll, she’ll be pleasantly surprised by the contrasting lining that I gave to this dress’s bodice!
To make this dress, you’ll need a few Dritz size 3/0 or 4/0 snaps, sew-on Velcro, 1/8 inch wide rickrack, and some cotton holiday fabric or other small-print fabric. You don’t have to use a contrasting fabric for your bodice lining, but doing so will allow you to get rid of those teeny-tiny bits of fabric you weren’t sure you’d ever use!
On that last image, you’ll see I’m using a tiny little special-order label. I bought those from May Day Labels on Etsy. To learn more about why I switched to May Day Labels, go to my Shop page and scroll down to the image of my hand holding one of these teeny-tiny cotton labels.
Today’s pattern will fit these dolls:
- Monster High female dolls
- 8 inch Bratz dolls
- Ever After High dolls
- 8 inch Breyer Rider dolls
- Kuu Kuu Harajuku dolls (9 and a half inch)
- Spin Master La Dee Da dolls
- Disney 9 and a half inch fairy dolls like Tinkerbell
- Hasbro World of Love vintage dolls
- vintage Sunshine Family adult female dolls
- Mego 8-inch female action figures
- 7 inch Lottie dolls
- 9 and 3/4 inch (25 cm) Ginny Weasley dolls
Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and links to some helpful tutorial videos:
- Pattern for A-line dress
- Tutorial video showing how to make the A-line dress
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to sew snaps on fabric
- How to do a backstitch
- How to gather fabric
- How to choose fabric
- How to sew rickrack
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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.
Stacie, Ginny Weasley, Monster High, Ever After High, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, and vintage Sunshine Family 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.
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.
Snapstar dolls are produced by Yulu International Limited of Hong Kong, and that company holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Yulu Toys website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Project MC Squared dolls are made by MGA Entertainment, which holds the trademark rights to these dolls. If you’d like to learn more about the Project MC2 show and the dolls that go with it, please click here.