Today’s video offers simple, easy-to-follow instructions for making a doll’s wrap-around tie-style belt to fit Mattel’s Barbie dolls and similar-sized dolls.
It’s a follow-up to the pajamas and bathrobe project that you can find when you click here.
Here’s an image of that project:

As you can see, the bathrobe has pockets! So be sure to click here, to go back and learn how to make the bathrobe. This link will also take you to the free printable PDF sewing pattern for making the doll’s bathrobe.
You can make the nightgown as well, using the links I’ve provided today. Here’s an image of the nightgown:

Here here are some additional tutorials you may find helpful:
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to sew snaps on fabric
- How to do a backstitch
- How to gather fabric
- How to do a baste stitch
- How to pull elastic through a casing
- How to use a needle threader
- How to do a basic straight stitch
- How to use bias tape
- How to choose fabric
- How to tie a knot using a needle and thread
- How to measure a doll
- How to press seams open, using a hot iron
- How to sew rickrack
- How to use selvage
- How to attach ribbon to doll clothes
- Tips on sewing with lace
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