If you collect Dawn, Pippa, or other 6-inch fashion dolls, your help is requested…

Three images appear in a rectangular frame. A purple arrow points to blue Sharpie marker where someone has written "UK Print to actual size" and "UK fit to printable". Over the top of the purple arrow that points at this handwriting, it says "scribbley scrawls." There's an arrow pointing at a yellow unfinished sewing project with green rick rack poking out from the folds of the garment. The text on the purple arrow says, "bolero project." There's another arrow pointing to a tiny six inch dawn doll wearing a handmade halter style dress. This purple arrow says, "lovely assistant." There are multiple purple markers, pointing to a mishmash of overlapping pages of patterns and terms of use sheets. These markers each point to a different page and say, "first draft," "second draft," "third draft," "fourth draft," and one says, "I'm actually not sure which draft this one is. I've lost track!" — 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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The past few weeks have been a little cra-cra, as you can see in the wacky image at the top of this blog post!

Some of you may recall that I was sick with West Nile virus in the late spring and early summer. During that time, I was required to sit reclined for days on end.

What did I do with this time?

Earlier, before I contracted West Nile virus, I had run across this tiny 6-inch Remco I Dream of Jeannie doll at a second hand store:

The image shows the front view of a Remco I dream of Jeannie (Barbara Eden) 6 inch fashion doll wearing a handmade floral dress. The dress is sleeveless with a slightly scooped neck. The fabric is made of blue cotton, dotted with very small red, white, and yellow flowers. The length of the skirt is about knee-level. The skirt is slightly gathered at the waist, leaving it with a business-y look to the skirt's taper. This is part of a blog post article that asks the question, "Can Palitoy Pippa dolls and Topper Dawn dolls swap clothes with a Remco I Dream of Jeannie doll?" This blog post asks this question because Chelly Wood (the writer, YouTuber, and doll clothing designer) has created some sewing patterns that will fit her I dream of Jeannie 6 inch fashion doll, and she wants to know if her free doll clothes patterns will also fit Pippa and Dawn 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.

She was exactly the right size to sit on my bedside table, along with a little pincushion, some hand-stitching supplies, a pencil, some graph paper, and the TV’s remote control!

So I made her a beautiful wardrobe, consisting of eight or nine different outfits, while watched TV and recovered from my illness. You’ll see the collection of all the doll clothes I designed and stitched on a different doll — a Topper Dawn doll — in the thumbnail for last Friday’s post:

The text at the top of this thumbnail reads: "Dawn doll... a gallery of free doll clothes sewing patterns." Under this heading are a series of eight photos of a single Topper Dawn brunette doll modeling eight different doll clothes outfits, including a coat, a pair of shorts with a halter top, a long dress in an evening gown style, a short sleeved dress with pockets and a puffy skirt, a bolero jacket with evening gown, a mini skirt dress (miniskirt dress), a pair of pants with a T-shirt, and a pair of shorts with a short sleeved top or shirt. Visit ChellyWood.com for the free printable PDF sewing patterns for making these and other doll clothes to fit Topper Dawn, Palitoy Pippa, and Remco I Dream of Jeannie 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.

With a little research, I learned that the Remco I Dream of Jeannie doll was similar in size to Topper Dawn dolls and Palitoy’s Pippa dolls.

Dawn is, according to some sources, widely collected here in the US, where I live, while Palitoy Pippa is a popular doll to collect in the United Kingdom.

The Remco I Dream of Jeannie doll isn’t as popular to collect, but eventually I’ll make her a gallery, here on my website as well.

Anyhow, once I recovered from West Nile virus, I found a Dawn doll on eBay and purchased her, so I could pose her in the clothing I’d made and post a gallery of fashions for her. You may remember this blog post:

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.

Dawn sells on eBay for about $10.00 to $15.00 for a nude doll with flaws, all the way up to and sometimes over $100.00 for NIB, OOAK, or for very rare dolls. I bought mine for a little over $35.00 and she’s in pretty good condition, with just a little blue staining on her knees.

I would love to have also bought a Pippa doll, so I could create a gallery for that doll as well. But I don’t live in the UK, where most Pippa dolls are collected. I’m afraid they’re selling for more than I can afford at this time.

Over the years I have had requests for Pippa doll clothes patterns, from fans and followers in the UK. They’ve been added to my doll clothes request notebook several times.

The Chelly Wood doll (really a Spin Master Liv doll that has been repainted and given a new wig so it looks like the real doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood) holds up her journal of doll clothes pattern requests from fans and followers. One of the list pages says it's from 2018. Each page is filled with itemized requests for doll clothes sewing patterns for various dolls in various sizes, with various styles requested. — 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 told that Dawn and Pippa are doggone close in size and proportions, so I’m guessing they can easily swap clothes.

Another request I’ve gotten from people who live outside the US is this: “Can you provide your sewing patterns on A4 paper?” So I’ve been fiddling around with A4 paper specs, and I’ve come up with a pattern that I hope will work on A4 paper:

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People who live here, in the United States, use a weird and wonderful printer paper that’s measured in imperial measurements. It’s 8 and 1/2 inches across and 11 inches high.

People who live literally anywhere else in the whole wide world… well, they use A4 paper, which is measured in metric measurements. Typically, it’s 210 mm by 297 mm. (Correct me if I’m wrong!)

For my American followers, A4 paper measures a little over 8 and 1/4 inches by 11.6929 inches. In other words, the rest of the world uses printer paper that’s just a little bit longer and skinnier than ours.

Scroll up to the A4 printer paper pattern and compare it to the American specs paper below. Can you find any differences in the patterns?

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It may not look like it, but there are subtle differences.

For the final patterns, I set one on top of the other over the top of a lightbox and compared the pattern pieces. This is what I’ve discovered:

The bodice for the American pattern is maybe a millimeter smaller than the international specs pattern.
The American miniskirt is about 6 mm longer than the international version of the short skirt pattern.
The international short skirt is about 2 mm wider than the US version.
The US evening gown skirt is a whopping 8 mm longer than the international version of the long skirt pattern.
The international version of the long skirt is 3 mm wider than the international version of the long skirt.

These tiny millimeter differences are the result of several days of work on my part, to try to get the two patterns to match perfectly. When I first started working to convert the patterns in Canva, it really scrunched them up!

So I focused on making the “measurement tool” from my “Terms of Use” page work. Eventually I got that right. YAY!

On a cutting mat, a "terms of use" page is lying flat, with a ruler pressed against its measurement tool. Chelly's hand holds the ruler, checking to see if the measurement tool matches the centimeter lengths on the ruler she holds. To the left of the cutting mat is a Dawn doll, wearing a handmade dress. Over the top of the sheet is a yellow garment in disarray, clearly part of an ongoing sewing project. An arrow points to a gap in the "terms of use" page. There's also an arrow with the word "yay!" on it, pointing to the measurement tool, showing that the tool and the ruler do match. — 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.

You’ll see a gap on the right of the A4 Terms of Use page. That’s where the measurement tool used to be.

And I’m really sorry to all of you outside the US for the tiny script on the “Terms of Use” page. I could have fiddled with that or just re-typed the whole thing, but I wanted to focus more on making the patterns workable.

So your “Terms of Use” text will be scrunched up in the middle, as you can see in the JPG image below.

Here we see the "Terms of Use" page for Chelly Wood's A4 paper, after the measurement tool had been adjusted. The text is very tiny, and almost impossible to read without a magnifying glass. There's a gap in the lower right corner. The headings say, "free printable sewing pattern: terms of use" followed by subheadings under "sewing instructions" as follows: seam allowances, tutorial videos, printing your pattern, and at the very bottom, it says, "for children who are learning to sew, ADULT SUPERVISION is required!" — 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.

But alas, I digress…

The reason I posted this isn’t to complain about the difficulty in converting my patterns for international paper. Instead, I wanted to ask all of you who prefer printing on A4 paper — especially those of you who sew for Palitoy Pippa dolls — for a small favor.

The green halter-style gown that I’ve designed, which I posted last week, and the red halter-style miniskirt dress I’m posting a tutorial for tomorrow should fit Pippa dolls. But since I don’t own one, I can’t tell.

What I need are some hardy and brave pattern testers!

The image shows a series of sewing patterns stacked one on top of another, with the Chelly Wood measurement guide (a miniature tape measure or ruler) superimposed on top of the patterns. The text at the top of this thumbnail reads "pattern texters needed!" — 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.

If you’re a follower in the UK, and you also collect Palitoy Pippa dolls, please consider making one or both of these two dresses. Then, return to this page and report on how it went.

Specifically, I want to know if the pattern is printing with the skirts too long or too short, or if the bodice doesn’t wrap all the way around, or anything like that.

And I’d really like to know whether or not the “Measurement tool” on the “Terms of Use” page (that’s page 1) matches your ruler.

Please leave comments to let me know what I can do to improve the patterns. Thanks!

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Chelly Wood and the ChellyWood.com website are not affiliated with any of the doll or toy companies mentioned in this blog post, but Chelly enjoys designing her doll clothes to fit a variety of dolls. To learn more about the doll companies mentioned in today’s post, please visit the doll or toy company’s website.