Which New Year’s resolutions did I accomplish in 2022? #NewYearsResolutions #DollClothesPatterns

Here we see an image of Chelly Wood (the Liv doll that has been re-designed to look like the doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood) standing in her tiny sewing room, with her Galoob sewing machine on her right and her miniature dress form on her left. Behind her is the sewing room's window. On her sewing table (along with her tiny sewing machine) is a coffee cup and a sewing basket. The dress form sports a little party dress made of white cotton with multi-colored miniature polka dots. The watermark reminds us to go to ChellyWood.com for all the free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorials we need for making a wardrobe of doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Everybody’s busy making resolutions for the upcoming year, but today I’m going to reflect on the resolutions I set back in 2022. What was I able to accomplish?

My Strawberry Shortcake 11 inch doll, which I bought at a second hand store and restored from her earlier state of disarray, now has her own gallery, here on ChellyWood.com, so that was an accomplishment for 2022!

This image shows the 10 and 3/4 inch Strawberry Shortcake doll, dressed in four different outfits. Visit ChellyWood.com for the free printable PDF sewing patterns for making all of these doll clothes for your Strawberry Shortcake dolls.
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.

And I’m a Harry Potter fan from way back, so somewhere along the way, I acquired this neat little Ginny Weasley doll.

A doll that looks like Ginny Weasley from the Harry Potter movies is shown in its original packaging.
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.

It took me all year, but while on Christmas break in 2022, I managed to make her a couple of dresses. I’ve recently posted them as Monster High/Ever After High dresses, but tomorrow, I’ll re-post the Christmas one with rickrack, so I can start a gallery for her.

Both of the Monster High/Ever After High A-line dresses that I blogged about last week will also fit my Ginny Weasley doll.

This is a front view of the 2018 Mattel Ginny Weasley doll from the Hogwarts collection of dolls. She models a handmade dress designed by Chelly Wood. This is an A-line dress with a slightly scooped neck and no sleeves. The doll faces forward in this image. From this angle, we can see that the front of the dress's bodice has very slight darts.
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 found that Ginny Weasley can also fit in the pants I’ve designed for Breyer Rider dolls, but she is a little taller than the Breyer Riders. So I need to do a little bit of alteration to my Breyer Rider pants patterns before I can post a pair of pants for my Ginny Weasley doll.

If you happen to own the Hermione Granger doll (also 9 inches tall) and/or the Luna Lovegood dolls from this Mattel set, please let me know if they can swap clothes. If so, I’d like to include the other dolls from this set in my typical bulleted list of dolls that can wear each other’s clothing. Just leave a comment below, if you can assure me that these dolls can swap clothing.

I also designed patterns for my Vogue Ginny doll which, a lot of people have requested patterns for over the years.

In her box, looking very new, we see a Ginny doll in a pink ballerina outfit.
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.

I’m told nobody — and I mean NOBODY — offered patterns to fit these little vintage dolls anywhere online, so I was excited to be the first! Here are some of the outfits I designed for her in 2022, as per my New Year’s resolution:

The image shows four doll clothes outfits on a 7 and 3/4 inch (or 8 inch) Vogue Ginny doll. There's a dress with pinafore, a skirt, a T-shirt, a cotton blouse, a pair of shorts, and a pair of underpants / underwear / panties, and all of them are shown on the same vintage vogue Ginny doll with the words that say, "free doll clothes pattern gallery." You can download the free printable PDF sewing patterns for making these doll clothes for your Vogue Ginny dolls at ChellyWood.com
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.

My niece, Emily, requested doll clothes for Elsa and Anna mini dolls at Christmas time in 2021, so I set a goal to design some outfits for the two mini-dolls shown below, as part of my New Year’s resolutions for 2022:

The child Ana and child Elsa dolls are in their original packaging along with the dolls that look like their parents from the Disney movie, Frozen.
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.

Here are the doll clothes patterns I designed for Elsa in 2022:

This is a square image with two colors: turquoise blue linen look on top and purple with tiny white polka dots on the bottom. Overlapping the turquoise blue fabric are the words "free doll clothes patterns" and overlapping the purple cotton fabric with tiny white polka dots, we see three photos of a Disney Elsa toddler doll from Disney's Frozen 2. In these photos, Elsa models (left) a pair of pants with a sleeveless felt shirt; (center) a play dress of white with a floral heart print cotton fabric that has a velvet belt; (right) a yellow felt jacket over an Easter-egg print pink skirt with a pink felt shirt. The free printable PDF doll clothes sewing patterns for making these doll clothes can be found at ChellyWood.com
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.

And here are the doll clothes patterns I designed for Anna in 2022:

This image shows the Disney princess mini Anna doll from the Arrendelle family doll set modeling four different outfits. The words "Anna doll clothes patterns" are in a banner that goes up the left side of this gallery of photos. The background is purple with tiny white polka dots.
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.

I got a Rainbow High doll for Christmas in 2021 from my best friend, so I also added a gallery for those dolls in 2022. These doll clothes patterns have been super popular, so I would like to design some more.

If you sew for Rainbow High dolls, let me know in the comments what other outfits you’d like me to design for them. I’m up for ideas.

In this thumbnail for the Rainbow High free doll clothes pattern gallery on Chelly Wood dot com, we see Rainbow High Sheryl modeling five different outfits that obviously fit her. she wears a red strappy short-skirted dress; a long girlish short-sleeved dress in green cotton with tiny white polka dots; a pair of ankle pants-jeans with a white long sleeved tee shirt; a pair of turquoise shorts with a little cotton short-sleeved floral shirt; and a white pinafore-style jumper dress that's decorated in tiny red strawberries with green leaves.
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.

And then one last doll needs to be mentioned. I got a Lottie doll for Christmas in 2021, and I designed some outfits for her as well in 2022.

Here we see the Story Time Lottie doll in her original packaging.
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.

She seems to be compatible for clothes-swapping with vintage skipper for some things and Mattel’s Stacie doll for others. But since this doll is more popular in the United Kingdom than in the United States, I need to transfer the patterns I’ve made for her onto A4 paper, so people in the UK can easily print them. (They use a different size of printer paper in the United Kingdom than we do here in the US.)

This image represents a gallery of free printable PDF sewing patterns for making dolls clothes to fit Lottie dolls (a 7 inch doll). Click on this link at ChellyWood.com, and it will take you to a gallery of free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit your Lottie doll.
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.

I’d like to make a few more outfits for Lottie in 2023, so again, if you sew for this sweet little dolly, please leave your ideas in the comments. What should I design for her next?

Overall, I feel pretty good about my accomplishments in 2022! I’ve added six new galleries to ChellyWood.com — not just six new patterns, but six whole galleries of patterns! Yay!

But as this blog post appears on ChellyWood.com, I’ll be filling out my sewing planner with goals for the year 2023. If you’d like to submit a request, feel free to leave your suggestions for new patterns and new galleries in the comments area below.

And please don’t leave without checking out my new sewing planner, which is only 99 cents in my Etsy store! You can achieve your sewing goals, too, with this easy-to-print, digitally update-able sewing planner:

 

6 thoughts on “Which New Year’s resolutions did I accomplish in 2022? #NewYearsResolutions #DollClothesPatterns

  1. Thank you Chelly, for all your hard work, making all these wonderful patterns and suggestions, and everything else you do for us. GOD BLESS YOU and HAPPY NEW YEAR.

  2. Love all of your patterns! I would love to see some more for Little Miss Revlon (10.5 inch) and Tiny Betsy McCall (7.5 inch). Happy New Year!

    1. I don’t own any Miss Revlon dolls, but I watch for them at yard sales and second hand stores. I’d like to add one to my collection.

      Once I have one, of course I’ll design something for her!

  3. A Lottie bathing suit and a parka or coat would be nice, printable on US/Canadian printer. Happy New Year!

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