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Sew a “Sunday Best” bonnet with free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #LeapYear #LeapDay

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Happy Leap Day, everyone! For this amazing Leap Year, let’s think about making doll clothes for Easter, or if you don’t celebrate Easter, consider making this bonnet for your favorite beach day out!

Can you believe that I was only 10 years old — or maybe 11 — when I designed my first hat for a Barbie doll? I still remember the project… I made it out of blue gingham, and although it wasn’t lined like today’s “Sunday Best” Easter bonnet, the design was basically the same.

Image shows a little girl with long blond hair, sitting in a window and sewing some blue gingham fabric. This image is used to represent the real Chelly Wood as a child, sewing her first doll's hat, a project she designed at age 10 or 11, without having a pattern. It's part of a blog post about making a Sunday best or Easter bonnet broad-brimmed hat for Barbie dolls, using one of Chelly's newest free printable PDF sewing patterns.
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The cream-colored eyelet and striped bonnet that you see in my video was actually part of a special commissioned project that I did for my best friend’s grandmother. She wanted me to make a bridal dress and bonnet that exactly matched her daughter’s wedding dress.

I’d like to blog about the wedding dress too, but that will have to wait for another day, I think.

In this image, a strawberry-blond Barbie doll models a broad-brimmed hat with a tiny dark blue ribbon tied at the base of the hat's crown. We can see a hit of a wedding dress that she's wearing as well.
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Today, let’s just focus on the doll’s beautiful hat! This hat project uses one fabric for the outer fabric and another for the lining of the hat.

I made one of my “Sunday best” bonnets in red with a “Red Hat Society” theme, as well, and this one (along with a matching springtime dress) will be up for sale in my online shop, starting tomorrow.

Here’s how the red one looks on Barbie. This is just the top view:

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And I just love this “Red Hat Society” fabric, which I found at a church rummage sale!

So when you tip this hat upside down, you see this lovely fabric:

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How cute is that?

To make this “Sunday Best” broad-brimmed summer sun hat or Easter bonnet for fashion dolls like Barbie, you’ll need some cotton fabric and craft foam.

You may also want to buy some Fiskars Stitchers (the tiny scissors shown below with a different project), if you don’t already own some of those.

On a blue cutting mat, a skirt with a seam running down the middle appears to have two layers: one solid red, and (beneath that) the other floral print with a red background. A pair of Fiskars stitchers little snips rest on the blue cutting mat above the wrap skirt that's in the process of being sewn.
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.

Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:

Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfit shown at the top of this page:

Feel free to pin, like, or tweet about my free patterns and tutorials. Here’s an image you may want to share on social media:

This is the JPG image of a hat pattern for a Barbie or similar sized fashion doll. It is marked with Creative Commons Attribution symbols and the Chelly Wood dot com logo, so please share it with your followers if you choose to download the PDF (which is found in the second set of bullets in the original blog post for this hat pattern) and use it. This pattern is marked with four flowers, which means it's a somewhat difficult pattern to work with.
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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.

Queens of Africa dolls are products offered by the Slice by Cake company, which holds the trademark for them (™). They were designed by Taofick Okoya. Please visit the Queens of Africa website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys, books, and fashions.

Momoko dolls are products offered by Petworks, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Momoko Dolls website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Barbie, MTM Barbie, Francie, and Vintage Barbie 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.

Liv dolls were products designed and distributed by the Spin Master company, which still makes dolls and toys today (although the Liv dolls are no longer in production at the time of this blog post). The Spin Master company held the trademark for the Liv Dolls (™). Please visit the Spin Master Toys and Games website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys and games. Please be aware that the Chelly Wood animated doll is a Spin Master Liv doll that has been re-painted and had its wig colored to appear to look like the real doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood. This was done as a creative project by Chelly’s daughters, and the Spin Master Toys and Games company was not involved in the doll’s makeover in any way.

Disney Princess 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.

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