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Sew a pair of Halloween cargo pants for 9 inch dolls with today’s free patterns!

It’s almost Halloween, so I decided to revisit an old pattern of mine, and turn it into a pair of Halloween pants (or Halloween cargo pants) for 9 inch dolls. This was originally designed to be a pair of capris for Skipper and other 10 inch dolls, but when I discovered that they fit Moana and Ideal Pepper as regular-length pants, it got me thinking…

These would make great cargo pants! And how simple is it to just add a side pocket? Not too tricky at all!

A Disney Tinkerbell fairy doll with yellow-blond hair done up in a messy bun on her head models a pair of handmade cargo pants made of black cotton, decorated in tiny white, grey, orange, and light green bits, Halloween candy images, and tiny orange pumpkins. The pants have large cargo pockets made of orange cotton just below the doll's hipline on both sides. She wears a little white cotton crop fop with T-shirt length sleeves over the top of these elastic waist cargo pants with their Halloween themed fabric. Her shoes are black plastic high heels with pointy toes.
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I do have one caveat though, and you’ll hear me allude to it in the cargo pants video.

LOL Surprise OMG dolls (the 9 inch variety of LOL dolls) have pretty big hips in comparison to their tiny little waists. So if you do make a pair of cotton pants for them, be very careful to follow my seam allowances. Otherwise, those pants won’t fit over their hips.

An LOL Surprise OMG Royal Bee fashion doll (9 inches tall) models a pair of pale pink pants, a white T-shirt, and a pair of high heel white ankle boots. She appears to be walking with legs slightly crossed in front of her. Her head is tilted a bit to the left, and her wild ringlet curls form a lovely afro of brown and gold locks, like a halo above her round face.
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 can avoid any tricky hurdles by using jersey or stretch denim fabric for the LOL Surprise 9 inch dolls’ pants rather than using 100% cotton, which has a lot less give. That way, if you don’t follow the tiny little seam allowances exactly, your fabric will be more forgiving! So please keep that in mind.

The image shows an African or African-American fashion doll from the lower torso down to her knees, and she wears a pair of red handmade underpants. Around her waist is a stretch of 1/8 inch wide white elastic. There's also an image of a cardboard spool of "Elastic by the Yard" beside the doll and a swatch of fabric that looks like a garment under construction. The text says, "doll-sized elastic."
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 also need some elastic, and as usual, I’m recommending Elastic by the Yard.

In my tutorial video, I also mention Fiskars Stitchers, which are my new favorite tool for clipping seams!

If you need a fabric pencil or a ruler, for marking your pocket alignment, those links will take you to the best brands available on Amazon.

Here we see four pairs of pants. From left to right, they are pink solid cotton fabric pants; orange solid cotton fabric pants; hot pink cotton pants decorated with tiny pale pink flowers; and a pair of black cargo pants that have bright orange pockets. All four pairs of pants have elastic waists. The black cargo pants are made with a Halloween print featuring mid-century modern geometric designs and tiny Halloween cadies, along with little grey bats and tiny orange pumpkins. There's a white background behind all of these elastic-waist pants.
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Which dolls will fit in today’s cargo pants patterns?

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**NOTE: The T-shirt tutorial video shows a different doll wearing the shirt, but the exact same T-shirt does fit LOL Surprise OMG 8 and 3/4 inch doll dolls, exactly as you see in the images in this blog post.

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This image shows four rows of artist's renderings of doll clothing items. The top row shows four different styles of pants. The second row shows four different styles of shirts. The third row shows four different styles of skirts. The fourth row shows four different styles of dresses, with skirts in long, short, and mid-length styles. The text reads at the top, "Classes in Doll Clothing Design" followed by this paragraph: "Have you ever wished you could create patterns of your own? Click on the links to Chelly's online courses below, to learn more about her paid courses in doll clothing pattern design techniques." If you sign up for one of Chelly Wood's Creative Spark online courses, you can create a doll wardrobe to suit dolls of any shape and size. Find out more at CreativeSpark.ctpub.com

Before I go, I want to mention my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course on the Creative Spark online learning platform, which will teach you how to alter pants, skirts, dresses, and shirts too. If you haven’t looked into it yet, you can click here to learn more.

I also have a new course on the Creative Spark Online Learning platform which teaches you how to design your own doll pants patterns from scratch, including leggings, overalls, and fly-front jeans. Click here to check out that new course, which is only $19.99!

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It’s a one-time fee for the course, and there’s no specific time limit to finish your course. You can just take your time and learn at the pace that suits you. So go check out my paid courses on Creative Spark, using this link.

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This is the JPG image of a free printable PDF sewing pattern for making doll clothes that will fit Jakks Tinkerbell fairy dolls from Disney, LOL Surprise OMG 9 inch dolls, vintage Pepper dolls from Ideal (Tammy's little sister), Mattel's Stacie dolls, and a number of other dolls in the 9 inch to 10 inch size range. The pattern is marked with three flowers on a difficulty scale, meaning it's about average for an experienced sewist or seamstress to make, and these doll clothes sewing patterns are also marked with the ChellyWood.com logo and the Creative Commons Attribution symbol. The doll clothes patterns consist of a sleeveless crop top and a pair of pants which can be made into cargo pants if you follow the free tutorial video on YouTube.
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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.

Stacie and Skipper dolls 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.

Bratz dolls and LOL Surprise OMG dolls are products offered by MGA Entertainment, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the MGA Entertainment website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Disney fairy dolls and Moana 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.

World of Love dolls and Sunshine Family doll are products that were once owned and distributed by Hasbro, which holds the registered trademark for these retired toys (™). Please visit the Hasbro Toy website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

At the time of this blog post, the vintage Ideal Pepper 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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