8-inch doll clothes patterns, Breyer Doll Clothes Patterns, Tutorials: Sewing for Dolls, Whole Costumes for Dolls

Let’s make pants and a shirt for Breyer Riders and other 8 inch dolls w/today’s #FreePatterns @ ChellyWood.com #DollClothesPatterns

Here we see a front view of an 8 inch Breyer Rider doll (red-headed veterinarian Laura) modeling handmade doll clothes which were designed by Chelly Wood. The doll's long-sleeved shirt has a rounded hemline, a slight scoop neck, slightly puffy sleeves, and the sleeves are attached at the shoulder, rather than having a raglan style sleeve attachment. The shirt is made of red and white cotton jersey blended with spandex, and having very tiny horizontal stripes. The sleeves are long enough to reach to the doll's wrist. She also wears a pair of wide-legged navy blue pants or jeans. The doll faces forward with her hands at her sides.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Please scroll down to the second set of bullets for the free printable PDF sewing patterns and links to any additional relevant tutorial videos.

A while back, I designed a pair of elastic-waist, wide-legged jeans or pants and a long-sleeved shirt, but I posted the tutorial for one and then the tutorial video for the other, without ever showing you that you can make the whole outfit as one ensemble.

Well, today I’m going to backtrack to re-post both the pants and the shirt, all in one place! But before I go any further, I have to make my prerequisite affiliate marketing statement… As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Learn more about my affiliate marketing companies on the Privacy Policy Page.

On a blue cutting mat, a pair of navy blue elastic waist pants (handmade) lays beside a red and white striped long-sleeved shirt. These tiny doll clothes will fit many eight inch dolls, including but not limited to the Breyer Rider dolls, the Mego action figures, and World of Love dolls.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

These doll clothes will fit many 8 inch dolls, including the Breyer Riders (dolls suited to ride Breyer Model Horses). But that’s not all! There’s a list of all the dolls that will fit this free pattern, if you scroll down to the first set of bullets.

To make the jeans or pants, you will need some cotton or lightweight denim fabric and some 1/8 inch elastic.

In this image, we see three swatches of fabric from the FabScrap unboxing video: upper left is a piece of deep purple satin with large spots of darker embossed satin. Below that is a swirl of purple swimsuit fabric with a barely-visible wave pattern in tiny print upon the fabric. Then to the right of both of these fabrics is white cotton jersey with a lavender stripe running through it, and dancing all across these stripes are pastel colored donuts covered in frosting. Yum!
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 recommend that you use some very stretchy jersey fabric for today’s shirt project. You would probably be okay with a stretchy polyester blend (as shown in the upper left image above), but the more stretch you give your shirt fabric, the better off you’ll be.

You can close the back of your shirt with either a strip of 3/4 inch wide Velcro that has been cut in half along the length of it, or you can use a series of size 4/0 Dritz snaps to close the top (I used snaps).

In this image, the Breyer Rider (veterinarian Laura) doll faces away from the camera. She wears a red and white long sleeved shirt with navy blue pants or jeans that have wide legs like the 1970's style of pants. We can see that the back closure of her shirt uses snaps. She stands on a white floor with a turquoise blue mottled backdrop in front of her. She wears her ginger hair in a single pony tail.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

One last thing… I plan to sell this outfit — the striped shirt and the wide-legged pants — in my store, later this week. So please watch the blog posts for that announcement!

Today’s free patterns will fit the following dolls:

Here’s the free printable PDF doll clothes sewing pattern for making today’s doll clothes:

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Is this pattern close to what you were looking for, but maybe you’re wishing the pattern was slightly different? If so, my Creative Spark class, “How to Design Your Own Doll Pants from Scratch” may help you make a pattern that suits the pants or jeans (or leggings or overalls) you have in your imagination!

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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 a JPG version of a free printable PDF sewing pattern for making a pair of wide legged pants and a shirt for 8 inch dolls like the Breyer Riders (Breyer Model Horse rider dolls) and similar sized dolls. This pattern includes a shirt with long sleeves and a pair of elastic waist wide-leg pants. All patterns are marked with the Chelly Wood logo and the Creative Commons Attribution symbol. Please share this image on social media to help spread the word about Chelly Wood dot com and all of its free doll clothes patterns.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

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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, Ginny Weasley, vintage Sunshine Family, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, Monster High, and Ever After High 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.

Strawberry Shortcake dolls are products offered by Shortcake IP Holdings LLC, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Strawberry Shortcake website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Bratz 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.

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

Disney fairy 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.

Spin Master La Dee Da dolls are products offered by Spin Master, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Spin Master website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

World of Love is a product that was 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.

Mego action figures are products offered by Mego, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Mego company website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

At the time of this blog post, the Vogue Ginny 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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