12-inch doll clothes patterns, Ken Patterns, Tutorials: Sewing for Dolls, Whole Costumes for Dolls

Free Ken doll jacket patterns, shirt pattern, and pants patterns, to make a full suit!

A Mattel Ken or Ryan doll stands in a whitewashed room wearing a tux. To his right is a white pillar with climbing vines curling their way around it. To his left is the bust of a famous composer, and above that, a window with a purple painted frame. The Ken dolls wedding attire consists of a white cotton shirt with collar and tie, a black felt jacket, and a pair of black cotton trousers. He wears black plastic dress shoes as well.
Please click on the following link to get all the free printable patterns and tutorials you’ll need to make this outfit for male fashion dolls (posts on April 27, 2018): https://wp.me/p1LmCj-FGo

I’m re-posting this ken suit pattern page because I’ve updated two of the tutorial videos.

This was originally part of a wedding set for Tall Barbie and Fashionista Ken, but as you’ll see in the first bulleted list below, the wedding ensemble for Ken will fit a number of different dolls.

Please visit ChellyWood.com for FREE printable sewing patterns for dolls of many shapes and sizes. Image shows Mattel's fashionista tall Barbie dressed in a wedding gown with veil and Mattel's fashionista Ken wearing a handmade felt dinner jacket with lapels, a collared dress shirt, a tie, and black pants/trousers. The two dolls stand in an elegant but simple 1:6 scale diorama that includes a window on one wall, a bust of a musician, and a pillar with climbing vines surrounding it. The two dolls seem to look at one another lovingly, as two dolls who are very much in love on their wedding day! In the lower-right corner of the image, a watermark says, "ChellyWood.com: free printable doll clothes patterns and tutorials."
Please visit ChellyWood.com for FREE printable sewing patterns for dolls of many shapes and sizes.

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With that said, you’ll need several fabrics and notions to make this outfit for Ken.

Image of Mattel's Ken doll dressed in handmade white-collared shirt, black pants, and black tie. He looks very dapper on a white background and wooden floor.
Visit ChellyWood.com for free, printable sewing patterns for dolls of many shapes and sizes.

I recommend using a solid cotton fabric for your doll or action figure’s pants, shirt, and tie. I used Dritz quarter-inch-wide elastic for the waistband in my doll’s pants, and it is a sturdy choice.

The tie uses 1/8 inch elastic. If you look very closely at the images above and below, you’ll see that elastic is what’s holding his tie on, under the collar of Ken’s shirt:

In this photo, a Mattel Ken (or Ryan) doll models a handmade dinner jacket made of felt. It has two buttons in front, and beneath his coat or dinner jacket, he wears a collar shirt and tie. Beside him on his left is the bust of a famous musical composer. On his right, a climbing vine seems to grow up a marble column. There's a window framed in purple on one wall behind him. The logo for ChellyWood.com appears in the lower left corner of the photograph.
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.

To make the felt jacket, you’ll need craft felt, 1/4 inch double-fold bias tape, and size 3/0 snaps. The snaps will also be used for your shirt’s front closure.

My coat also has two very small buttons on the front. The buttons are optional though. If you want to see lots of doll button options, be sure to visit my online store.

And in some of my tutorial videos (there are links below), I also recommended purchasing a pair of Fiskars Stitchers mini scissors, for clipping small seams like the crotch of the pants, the neckline of the collared shirt, and the underarm area of the felt jacket.

Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

And now, here are the patterns and tutorial videos you’re looking for:

Dinner jacket, tux, coat to fit Mattel’s Ken and similar-sized male fashion dolls

Trousers, pants, or dress slacks to fit Mattel’s Ken and similar-sized male fashion dolls

Collared dress shirt to fit Mattel’s Ken and similar-sized male fashion dolls

 

The outfit looks fabulous in black, if you’re doing a wedding set, but you may also want to make it in blue, if your Ken doll just wants to look extra dapper for a night on the town.

The blue set comes with a short-sleeved shirt that has one pocket. Click here for that set!

Ken poses mid-stride in his azure blue dinner jacket and matching pants. The shirt beneath his jacket is made of cream colored cotton with wide stripes of orange and pale blue.
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.

This image of a turquoise blue sewing needle pulling purple thread away from a line of cross-stitching is used as a divider between sections of a blog post.

If you’ve ever had a shirt or pants turn out to be too tight for your doll after you’ve sewn them, then my Creative Spark class, “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” on the Creative Spark platform could help you.

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

Once you sign up for one of my courses on Creative Spark, the class’s videos will remain open for you to view over and over again. There’s no specific time limit to your course. You can just take your time and learn at the pace that suits you.

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