Learning to sew with McCall’s 2686 doll clothes patterns #WinterCoats #DollClothesPatterns

The Chelly Wood doll stands to the right of McCall's Craft Pattern 2686, which offers 10 different doll clothes outfit patterns to fit Barbie and similar sized fashion dolls. The watermark on the image reminds us that this photograph comes from ChellyWood dot com, a website that offers free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes. This particular illustration accompanies a website discussion about which fabrics are ideal for sewing doll coats for 11 inch fashion dolls like Barbies. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making clothes to fit dolls and action figures of many shapes and all different sizes.

The pattern we’re learning about today is McCall’s 2686 doll clothes patterns for fashion dolls.

It has three different styles of coats that will fit Barbie and other fashion dolls, which is what makes this McCall’s Barbie-sized patterns stand out among the others.

In this image, we see the photo of McCall's Craft Pattern number 2686 from Chelly Wood's vintage doll clothes pattern collection. These outfits are reminiscent of styles from the 1980's. Chelly has marked the image in the upper left corner with a letter A, and that image could be described as a bulky, calf length fur coat with a Russian style fur hat. She has marked the next image to the right with a letter "B." This image could be described as a doll wearing stretch pants, white boots, and a very bulky thigh-length pink fur coat. Another of the marked images (letter "C") is more of a business suit with a jacket that has no lapels but comes down to the upper thigh level of the doll. Under this print fabric jacket she wears a mini skirt and shirt. Now among the other outfits offered on this pattern are (clockwise from the top center), a puff sleeve, knee length dress with ruffle at the waist; a body suit with wrap-around skirt; a sweat shirt with stretch pants; a tank top with sash and stretch pants; a wedding gown with short puff sleeves and a neckline ruffle; a prom dress with short puff sleeves and no ruffle; and the turtle neck body suit by itself. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making clothes to fit dolls and action figures of many shapes and all different sizes.

View A offers a long fur coat; view B shows how to make a shorter winter coat, which would work well with furs, felt, or wool; and view C shows how to make a long style of business jacket, which seems to be coming back into trend these days.

But also, look at that beautiful wedding gown with puffed sleeves and ruffles! Gorgeous! What little girl doesn’t want to play with a “princess dress” like that?

So if you’d like to read what I’ve had to say about McCall’s 2686 Barbie doll clothes in the past, click on the title that interests you from the bulleted list below to learn more!

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Look, I know you’ve probably already heard about it, but my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course on the Creative Spark online learning platform 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.

In this image, we see a woman's hands making an alteration to a pants pattern for a little 8 inch plush doll with jointed arms and legs. She works on a cutting mat with a pen, a pencil, a ruler, and two different paper patterns; one for pants and the other is a shorts pattern. The words say, "how to alter doll clothes patterns" and the URL for the class is also offered as follows: https://creativespark.ctpub.com/courses/alter-doll-clothes — 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.

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!

The image shows an 18 inch doll next to an 8 inch doll, to demonstrate that Chelly's "How to Design Doll Pants Patterns" course is for dolls of any shape or size. In one photo, both dolls wear a tee shirt with leggings. In the other image, both dolls wear a T-shirt under a pair of green polka dot overalls (green with tiny white polka dots). The text says, "How to Design Your Own Doll Pants Course Only nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents! There are two bonuses mentioned on the advertisement as well: Chelly's re-sizing formula and a complementary pattern for 18 inch doll overalls. — 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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