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What is rickrack trim? And how do you use it? @ChellyWood.com #dollclothes #sewingproject

 

Today’s tutorial video shows you how to use rickrack trim, like the trim shown at the bottom of the dress below:

The image shows an Ever After High doll with very yellow-blond hair, modeling a holiday dress. The dress is in an A-line style, and the fabric shows holly and berries in a tiny red and green print over an ivory colored background color. Just above the hem of the skirt, there's a tiny one-eighths inch red rickrack zig zagging across the bottom of the dress. The doll also wears little red felt elf-style shoes. Her feet are in a prancing pose, and the doll looks slightly to the right of the viewer.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Today’s tutorial video is actually a re-post. To learn why I’m doing so many re-posts on my website, revisit the blog post called, “There’s a CAT in my Sewing Room!”

While I’m gone, feel free to look over some of the basic sewing instruction videos that you can find on my FAQ’s page. And of course, the Gallery is loaded with lots of patterns and tutorials to browse through.

Also, go check out the new course I’ve posted on the Creative Spark Online Learning platform. It’s called, “Design Your Own Doll Pants Patterns from Scratch.”

In this image, we see a smattering of tools that will be needed to take the Creative Spark course on doll clothes pattern alterations with Chelly Wood. The items include the following: a doll, a ruler with metric and imperial measurements, a pencil with an eraser, graph paper, patterns that don't quite fit your doll, fabric, craft felt, ribbons, elastic, and post-it notes or scratch paper.
Visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

In this how-to-design-pants class, which only costs $19.99, you’ll learn how to design your own doll pants, jeans, leggings, fly-front pants, and even overalls, using my simple techniques.

You will learn how to design your own doll pants patterns, whether your doll is big or small, plush or plastic, and you’ll even get my “magic resizing formula” with the class, as an added bonus!

In the photo, three different types of dolls are pictured, and each is modeling overalls. On the left, an eight inch Vogue Ginny doll wears a pair of green overalls with tiny white stars. She's hugging the leg of 15 and a half inch vintage Ideal Velvet, who models a pair of red bell-bottom overalls. To Velvet's right, a JC Toys Lil' Cutesies 8 inch baby doll is wearing a pair of white overalls with multi-colored stars. Chelly Wood dot com offers all of these patterns and accompanying tutorial videos for free, but if you would like to learn how to design your own doll overalls, for dolls of any shape or size, you can sign up for Chelly Wood's Creative Spark online course at Creative Spark dot CT Pub dot com.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

 

2 thoughts on “What is rickrack trim? And how do you use it? @ChellyWood.com #dollclothes #sewingproject”

  1. Thank you Chelly!! I’m making some Crissy and Velvet clothes, with some of your patterns, and am using Ric Rac on some of them as I’m trying to stay era sensitive.

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