I’ve been making a pair of denim-look pants for my 18 inch American Girl Kaya doll, using the sewing pattern Simplicity 5276. I really like the versatility of this pattern.

As you can see in the image above, it offers a lot of casual combo outfits for an 18 inch doll, and it includes options for both summer and winter wear.

Before I go on, I want to clarify. There’s also a vintage Simplicity 5276, which was designed to fit 18 inch Ideal Crissy dolls, but the one I’m using is not the same pattern, nor can these dolls swap clothes.

American Girl dolls and Ideal Crissy dolls are very different dolls! Go back to this blog post if you want to learn more about Crissy. But I digress.

Once again, today’s blog post is about making pants or look-alike jeans for my 18 inch American Girl doll, using the modern version of Simplicity 5276.

When you look back at the Simplicity 5276 envelope, you might wonder, “Which of the pants did Chelly use for this project?”

And it may confuse you a bit because your options are limited, on the pattern envelope at least, to a pair of pajama pants, a pair of drawstring yoga pants, and a pair of sweat pants with cuffs at the bottom.

I get comments and emails all the time from people asking, “Do you have any pajama patterns for _____ dolls?” (Fill in the blank with the doll of your choice.)

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… If I’ve designed and published patterns for shorts and a shirt, I’ve made a pajama pattern too. You just need to choose the right fabric — like flannel — to turn a dress into a nightgown, to turn shorts into pajama shorts, and to turn pants into pajama pants, etc.

Remember this one?

That pajama outfit shown above uses the exact same patterns as the shorts and top combo shown at my 4th of July parade with dolls, shown below…

They are literally, the exact same patterns.

So when I looked through my patterns on the Simplicity 5276 pattern for 18 inch dolls, I didn’t just see sweat pants, yoga pants, and pajama pants…

I saw the potential for making sweat pants, cargo pants, jeans, trousers, yoga pants, pajama pants and… well, it’s really up to you and your imagination.

By using a cotton that came in the same shade as denim and taking the cuff off the pajama pants pattern, I created this pair of wide-leg “jeans” for Kaya:

So try to keep an open mind when you look at your own doll clothes sewing patterns. Ask yourself, “What if I made these clothes out of pleather? What if I used jersey? Flannel? Satin? Prints? Solids? Stripes? Plaids?

Be brave! Experiment with fabrics and see what you get!

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