How to sew a raincoat with a hood for Disney Princess Toddler dolls w/free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #DisneyToys #DollClothesPatterns

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At the end of April, we’re still seeing those “April showers” in south central Idaho, where I live.

So today I’m sharing patterns and a tutorial video that will help you sew a hooded raincoat for a Disney Princess Toddler doll (or a number of other dolls in a similar size range).

As you can see in the image below, this coat has a lining:

Here we see the Disney Princess toddler Elsa doll shimmying out of her raincoat. Beneath the raincoat, her sleeveless top and skirt are made of the same cotton "London print" pink fabric as the lining of her raincoat. This fabric shows important key locations in London, along with British bobbies, streets, double-decker busses, and names of locations. The fabric is pink in the background but with its London-themed print, it resembles a map. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in the lower left corner.
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 the lining matches the skirt and top we made on Friday last week! Click here to go back and revisit that blog post.

So the lining is made of cotton print, but the outer part of the hooded raincoat is made of a solid polyester. So be sure to pre-wash your fabrics before you cut them, to make sure they don’t shrink.

I chose polyester for the outer fabric because it can give the coat that shiny “raincoat” sheen, which you’ll notice in the image below.

In this photo, we see a Disney Princess "Elsa" doll (from the Disney movie, Frozen), modeling a hooded raincoat with front buttons and piping for trim. The coat is made of a grey polyester, which gives a sheen like a rain slicker. The doll stands sideways, so we can see that the hood is sort of pointed at the back. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in the lower left corner.
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 buttons were made by a company called Blumenthal Lansing, and the buttons were packaged in plastic with a cardstock label that said, “Favorite Findings.” Click on that link to find them on Amazon.

I also used 3/4 inch sew-on Velcro, as the actual closure mechanism at the front of the jacket. The buttons add a faux closure for a pretty appearance, when in fact, Velcro is used to close the raincoat.

A Disney Princess Elsa doll reaches toward the camera. Her blond hair is tied in a pony tail, and the hood of her raincoat is down, against her back. With this front view, we can see that the double buttons that run the length of her grey raincoat's front placket are the same shade of pink as the hood's interior lining, which peeks out from behind the doll. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in the lower left corner.
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 finally, I used a half-inch light grey piping as a formal trim. This piping is placed between the lining and the jacket itself, so today’s raincoat project is for more advanced sewists.

You can see the piping around the hood, at the edges of the sleeves, and along the front opening of the hooded raincoat:

Here we see an almost-front-facing view of the Elsa Disney Princess Toddler doll, wearing her handmade raincoat with hood. The light grey piping that's used along the edges of this coat can be seen at the flap where the doll's coat opens at the front, and the piping is also surrounding the doll's face at the edges of her hood, and there's also piping along the bottoms of each sleeve, where the doll's tiny hands peek out. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in the lower left corner.
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.

That’s why I’m giving today’s project five flowers on my difficulty scale. You should really have quite a bit of sewing under your belt before you tackle a lined raincoat with piping along the edges.

Today’s free printable PDF doll clothes sewing patterns will fit the following dolls:

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This is a printable sewing pattern for the hood portion and sleeve of a doll's raincoat with a hood to cover the doll's head. Designed by Chelly Wood, this free pattern which fits dolls in the 13-inch to 17-inch range (depending on the doll's body type) can be downloaded as a PDF sewing pattern at ChellyWood.com
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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.

The Disney Princess Toddler dolls are products offered by the Disney corporation, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Disney Toys website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

The Hearts for Hearts Girls, Dolls and Games are owned by the Playmates Company International, which holds the registered trademark for these toys. It should be noted, that for each H4H doll purchased, the Hearts for Hearts company donates a portion of their proceeds to World Vision, a global humanitarian organization.

The Wellie Wishers and the 18 inch American Girl dolls mentioned in this blog post 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.

The Crissy family of dolls which includes dolls like vintage CrissyVelvet, and other dolls, were produced by the Ideal Toy Corporation, which held the registered trademark for them. That company is no longer producing the dolls, and at the time of this blog post, it looks like Mattel currently owns the trademark for Crissy (although to my knowledge, they are not producing them). If you wish to purchase one of these dolls, you can sometimes find them used, in good condition, on eBay (see link in the first set of bullets).

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