It’s confession time. I have some great video tutorials with brand new patterns waiting in a queue.

Why haven’t I posted them? I’ve lost my voice!

I’m currently on spring break from my full-time job as a school librarian, which usually gives me a lot of time to create, edit, and record voice-overs for my doll clothes sewing tutorials. Unfortunately, I’ve caught some sort of virus that has left my throat raw, and I’m almost completely unable to talk…

Even without the voiceover, hopefully you’ll find today’s tutorial video helpful. It shows you how to attach elastic directly to fabric when you’re sewing things like the elasticized cuff of a doll’s sleeve.

Later, I plan to post a more extensive article about how I used elastic for my American Girl doll’s sleeve cuffs when making an alteration of McCall’s 9449 doll clothes patterns for toddler and baby dolls.

But for now, I’ll share the image below to inspire you. I used this sew-directly-on-fabric method when I made this cute gathered-front top for Barbie:

I’m going to keep this blog post short because I really need a bit of rest right now.

Sorry for the lack of new content everyone, but I’m going to take it easy for a while.

If you enjoyed this blog post, and you’d like to see my videos, you might want to navigate over to my YouTube channel, ChellyWood1 to look through my playlists.

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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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