8-inch doll clothes patterns, Dora the Explorer Dolls, Tutorials: Sewing for Dolls, Whole Costumes for Dolls

Let’s sew springtime overalls and a shirt for a Dora and Friends 8″ doll w/free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #springtime #DollClothesPatterns

This is a front view of a Dora and Friends doll (a blond one) modeling a pair of handmade bibbed overalls with a short sleeve shirt. The overalls are made of a bright green cotton, dotted with teeny-tiny white stars. The shirt is made of a slightly bigger printed cotton fabric with a white or yellow background color and pastel flowers decorating the cotton of the shirt's fabric. The flowers come in many pastel colors, from purple to blue to pink, etcetera. The doll faces the camera, with her back to a Manet-style painted backdrop fabric with horizontal splotches or blends of peach, purple, green, and blue colors. The fabric at the little doll's feet is a mottled turquoise blue. Her shoes, which are made of yellow plastic, sharply contrast against the floor. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in one corner.
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I actually designed today’s overalls in my latest Creative Spark class, “How to Design Doll Pants Patterns from Scratch.” This class only costs $19.99, and you get a free pattern for the 18″ doll (American Girl-sized) version of the overalls with that fee. I think that’s a really fair price for a class, plus a free overalls pattern!

But I’m assuming you came here to download today’s free patterns, and perhaps to follow the free tutorial videos that show you how to make this cute outfit!

Here's a photo of a blond-haired doll from the Dora and Friends doll collection modeling a pair of springtime green overalls with a bib and straps. Under her green overalls is a pastel floral short-sleeved shirt made of cotton. The doll wears little yellow plastic shoes, and she stands in front of a watercolor backdrop in many pastel shades.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

To sew today’s overalls project, you’ll need some cotton fabric or lightweight denim fabric, some 1/4 inch woven elastic, and some Dritz size 4/0 snaps.

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For the shirt, you have a couple of options. You can use regular cotton fabric, or you can use cotton jersey fabric for more of a T-shirt. Both options will also require the use of Dritz size 4/0 snaps.

Here we see a blond Dora and Friends doll from the side, modeling a pair of bibbed overalls that have been designed by Chelly Wood. This is an 8 inch doll. From the side view, the gathers at the base of the bib seem to puff out just a bit, but the little Dora doll is just as cute as can be in these overalls with a cotton shirt underneath.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Please note that other dolls are pictured on the pattern, but that’s because several dolls can fit into these doll clothes.

Use the short sleeve pattern, not the long one. The long sleeves probably won’t fit your 8-inch Dora and Friends dolls.

Today’s free patterns will fit the following dolls:

Here’s the free printable PDF doll clothes sewing pattern for making today’s doll clothes:

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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.

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This is the JPG image version of a free printable PDF sewing pattern for making a pair of doll overalls to fit 8 inch Vogue Ginny dolls. The pattern is marked with three purple flowers to indicate the difficulty level of this sewing project, and it has the Creative Commons Attribution symbol on it, along with the ChellyWood.com logo. Feel free to share this image on social media, but please attribute it to Chelly Wood, to honor the Creative Commons Attribution license.
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.

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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.

Fancy Nancy 10 inch 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. At the time of this publication, I’m also aware that Jakks Pacific should also be credited with the creation of these dolls, as the dolls’ maker. Visit the Jakks Pacific website to learn more about their toys.

The vintage Pepper dolls are no longer in production, but you can purchase them on eBay. If you’d like to learn more about vintage Pepper dolls or the Ideal Toy Company (which used to produce them), please click on the links provided.

Dora the Explorer dolls (including Dora and Friends) are products of Fisher-Price (and as such, Nickelodeon), which holds the trademark rights to these dolls. Would you like to see what products the Fisher-Price website offers for sale at this time? If so, please click here (although your purchase using that link does not benefit this free doll clothes pattern website).

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.

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