As many of you know, I keep a little spiral notebook, wherein I list each of your doll clothes pattern requests. At the start of 2024, I want to begin the year with some new and wonderful ideas to inspire the patterns I’ll design.
So please drop down to the “comments” section and leave your request. It helps to be specific, so instead of writing “Just make more doll clothes for Wellie Wishers,” tell me what types of fashions you want me to design.
Are you fond of A-line skirts? Do you dream of princess dresses? Do you wish the 18 inch dolls had a Superman costume? Are you wishing I’d make a scuba diver’s suit for Breyer Rider dolls? Or maybe you want some painter’s pants for Ken…?
You might wonder, “Does she even fulfill all of her requests?”
I can’t honestly say that I fulfill ALL requests. That wouldn’t be possible for a woman who still holds a full-time job as a school librarian (i.e. ME). But if you look at the image above, you can see that I do cross out patterns after I’ve designed them.
I also highlight the ones I’d like to make.
Furthermore, the products I offer in my Etsy store are products I actually use to help me set my own sewing goals and achieve them. The product shown in part below, for example, is an editable sewing planner page, and I’ve already filled mine out for 2024. Here are the items at the top of my “Sewing Goals” list for 2024 (although I will probably revise my list once your requests come in):
As you can see, I’ve got a lot of goals for making 18 inch doll patterns this coming year. But feel free to add your own suggestions! Like I said, my Sewing Goals project page is completely editable! I look forward to making some changes to mine list!
I have a niece who is about the right age to play with American Girl dolls, so this year for her birthday, I want to give her some doll clothes and an 18″ actual American Girl doll.
The image above doesn’t show my whole sewing goals planner, though, so here’s the bottom half:
The shift dress for 18 inch dolls, the coat pattern for 18 inch dolls, and the long-sleeved Barbie top are all requests that have been on my spiral-notebook followers’ requests list for a long time.
The Elf on the Shelf outfits were also on this list, and I’ve crossed that one off just this past December. This coming week, I’ll need to post a gallery for all the fun outfits my website now has for Elf on the Shelf, thanks to followers who submitted their Elf on the Shelf costume requests.
So yes, eventually I do seem to finish designing patterns for at least some of the requests you submit! I don’t choose which ones to make based on a first-come-first-serve basis or anything like that. It’s more about where I am in my own life.
And like you can see in my 2024 Sewing Goals list above, with Emily’s birthday coming up this May, I’ll be focusing on 18 inch doll clothes more than likely in the first part of 2024. But after her birthday’s over, who knows what I’ll design! So submit your requests for whatever doll you want.
It can put a damper on things if I don’t actually own the doll you’re requesting patterns for. However, if you’re looking for patterns for a doll I don’t already own, well that’s exactly why I created my design-your-own-doll-clothes-patterns courses on the Creative Spark online learning platform.
For anyone who would like to expand their dolls’ wardrobes, you should really check out my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course and my “Design Your Own Doll Pants Patterns from Scratch” classes on the Creative Spark online learning platform. Here’s my bio page on their website, where you can learn more.
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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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Thank You! Have enjoyed reading your post and the free patterns! Very Glad to see more 18 inch doll patterns coming.
Some more Barbie patterns would be appreciated. Thank You for all you do!
I have more Barbie patterns waiting in the wings.
Emily’s birthday is in May, so you’ll likely start seeing those 18 inch doll clothes patterns this summer, when I’m home on summer vacation.
Once I get a pattern completed, it takes a while to digitize it, mark it with my logo, and turn it into a PDF.
The very best part is the “photo shoot” with the doll. It’s amazing how well dolls cooperate for a photographer! It’s a lot easier than taking photos of my cats… 🐱
Thank you so much for all your hard work. I love sewing, knitting and crocheting for all my dolls. I would love to see basic patterns for cabbage patch kids dolls and/ or similar dolls.
Love all your patterns, but would like to see more for GI Joe
I’m working on a new short-sleeved shirt pattern right now. It’s sitting on my ironing board, waiting for me to cut out the first draft of it!
I would greatly appreciate it if you could make more 16inch doll clothes.
Did you see the coat pattern that I recently posted, Sandra? It fits some 16 inch dolls. Click on this link to go back and view it.
Do you have a Velvet doll? Which 16 inch doll do you sew for?
Hi Chelly! I would love for your to have more 1:12 doll clothes – especially super easy ones! Thanks!!
Thank you for your request, Amy. I’ve written this in my request booklet as “easy-to-sew patterns for 1:12 dollhouse-sized dolls.”
In past years, I had only one adult doll in this size range. She’s my Breyer Rider doll. If I were you, I’d keep my eyes peeled for new blog posts about 6 inch Breyer Rider dolls because that’s likely where you’ll see these patterns pop up.
Of course I already have some doll clothes patterns for the 6 inch Breyer Riders. You can click that link to find them, if you haven’t already. My felt dresses are probably the easiest outfits to make for her.
However, this year I purchased a Topper Dawn doll, and I have some outfits that are already designed for her — some that have been posted and others that are waiting for pattern testers in the UK to get back to me. So watch for those in the coming months!
Click here for the patterns I’ve already posted for Topper Dawn dolls. All of the outfits I’ve put on my website this year are super easy to sew!
I have made several of your 18″ doll patterns multiple times. My granddaughters love that the patterns are large enough for them to put on the clothes. What I would think many followers would like is a pattern for granny panties. The all the patterns I have found on line the legs are too small or have a shorts leg and do not come up high enough. I finally got a pattern made that works but needs help.
Have you tried my underpants pattern for 18 inch dolls yet? Here’s the link. I used the same pattern for the bottoms to my 18″ doll’s bikini.
Specific requests? Hmm… Well, I’ve been planning for a while to OOAK an Ever After High doll into NiGHTs from the NiGHTs Into Dreams video game (albeit with some artistic interpretation allowed, as the game version lacks a nose, for starters XD). Figuring out a bodysuit or tights and top for most of the outfit isn’t too hard, but a two-horned Jester/Harlequin hat has me stumped for some reason. And I know a lot of people do like those little harlequinade jester dolls. I used to have a couple porcelain ones long ago. So that might make for a good addition to your Halloween options?
Have you seen my Renaissance Barbie clothes patterns? Some of them are period-correct for a jester costume.
If you can re-size a pattern, you may find them helpful…
Actually, yes I have. It’s just the hat that has me stumped. This is what NiGHTs looks like in the games:
https://nights.fandom.com/wiki/NiGHTS_(character)
Their hat isn’t too dissimilar from, say, Classic Harley Quinn from DC comics if that’s a chara you’d be more familiar with.
A lot of times I can look at a 3d shape and roughly figure how to do it “flat” (probably from doing 3d modelling), but I just feel like I’m missing something obvious. I can see how to do the cap part, how to do the horns, but the transition between the two to make the pattern pieces is just stumping me. I do still have a few more ideas to try, though.
Yes, that hat does look tricky. I studied it for a moment and asked myself, “How would I even make that?”
And I decided I’d probably use papier-mâché and cover it with purple jersey fabric to get it to drape correctly in the front and at the tips. Hopefully that would make it lightweight enough to secure it with an elastic band around the chin or at the back of the doll’s head. — Truthfully, you’d really have to secure it under the chin because I’ve never had success trying to secure a hat with elastic at the back of the head; although I never like the way it looks with the elastic under the chin!
You said in your original comment, “Figuring out a bodysuit or tights and top for most of the outfit isn’t too hard…”
As far as the bodysuit goes, I do have a ninja costume for Barbie that you might be able to alter, but I think that purple collar is going to give you a little trouble too. You might try felt with a little bit of Fabric Stiffy, using it something like I did for my sailor dress for Crissy.
I would love some patterns to fit Fisher Price My Friend Dolls from the 70’s and 80’s. I’m teaching a little girl to sew and have gifted her Mandy, Jenny, and Mikey. I believe they’re 16 “ tall.❤️🥰. Thank you for asking!
Hi Sue. I’ve added your request to my list, but I do not own the Fisher Price My Best Friend dolls at this time.
However online, I’m reading that these are 15 to 16 inch dolls; if that’s true, I’d venture to guess that my Wellie Wishers patterns will very likely fit them.
Hi, I’d like to see more male dolls patterns.
I’ve just had a Ricky doll so I’m trying to adapt some of Skipper cloths for him.
I’d even like to see patterns for 1/12 male dolls like Pete or Gary (and it is very difficult to find anything).
I’d like to see a couple of Big Jim clothes. I have found nothing online except for a pair of shorts (it seems nobody want him dressed, lol).
Maybe a tutorial on how to cut fabric on fold? I have always to print or make double specular parts, I am a disaster!
And maybe a tutorial on how to convert female clothes to male clothes.
Many thanks for your patterns
I think I do have a blog post about how to cut fabric on the fold, but I love the idea about making an actual tutorial for that. I’ll have to add it to my list of possible tutorial videos.
What a great list of ideas you’ve given me, Marco! Thank you for your contribution to this thread.
Hi, I’d like to see some patterns for the vintage supersize 18″ barbie and Tiffany Taylor dolls. 🙂
I do have some patterns for 17-inch Barbie on this website. Go to 17 to 17 and 1/2 inch dolls, click on Endless Hair Kingdom Princess Barbie, and then you may find you need to enlarge them a bit. However my guess is they may already fit both 18 inch Barbie and 18 inch Tiffany Taylor dolls.
If you need help making slight alterations to these patterns, I have a class on alterations. Just click on this link to learn more about it.