If you’re a regular follower of this website, then you are probably already familiar with my special relationship to the Simplicity 4883 sewing pattern I’m holding up, in the image above.

This was the first sewing pattern I remember ever using, and I even did a blog post on how precious this pattern is to me, back in April. You can read that blog post here.

Simplicity 4883 was designed to fit Ideal Tammy dolls, and you can see my Ideal Tammy pictured in the image above. I guess you could say she was an early competitor to Barbie, and where Barbie had a little sister named Skipper, Tammy had a little sister named Pepper.

Here’s an image of my Pepper doll, in one of the outfits I’ve designed for her:

What a lot of Americans may not realize is that Tammy, who was marketed by Ideal in the United States, had a British counterpart named Sindy. Across the pond, Sindy was far more popular than Barbie.

And Sindy had a little sister (with similar measurements to Pepper) named Patch.

Where Tammy was discontinued by Ideal in 1966, due to a lack of popular interest, Sindy contrarily continued to grow in popularity in the United Kingdom, as did Patch. And like Barbie, Sindy’s overall look changed over time. Originally, she looked almost exactly like my Tammy doll, which you can see here in one of the outfits I’ve designed for her:

But eventually, Sindy’s face and body changed to the doll you see below. Incidentally, I’ve added this Sindy to my collection in the past year or so, and I’ve been working on creating some doll clothes patterns for her, which I hope to post here, on my website, some time in the near future.

In this photo, Sindy’s hair is a bit tousled and her body is sort of dirty, but eventually she did clean up nicely.

You can see, in that image, that Sindy has the same side-glancing eyes that Tammy had, and her pursed lips look similar. But that Sindy has a different body type, with more flexible legs. Both her legs and arms are made of soft plastic.

I’ve found, so far, that my Simplicity 4883 patterns do fit my 1970’s Sindy, but I like to honor people’s copyrights. I will not be just copying the Simplicity patterns for Tammy and re-posting them as Sindy clothes. That’s not nice!

However, I could make some patterns for Pepper (Tammy’s little sister) and Patch (Sindy’s little sister) that are inspired by the Simplicity 4883 patterns. That’s neither illegal, nor immoral, according to US copyright laws for sewing patterns.

Before I do so, though, I need to know if there are already patterns like that in existence.

So today’s blog post is a shout-out to all of my followers to rack your brains for any patterns you’ve ever seen for either Patch or Pepper… Does anyone know of patterns for Pepper or Patch that might look a lot like the Simplicity 4883 patterns? Because as you can see in the image below, my Pepper needs some more clothes!

I’d like to make her some clothes that match her big sister’s to some extent.

Sometimes, in the world of patterns, we can find big-sis-little-sis matching outfits. I’m thinking, of course, about the patterns I recently made into cool vintage outfits for both my vintage Skipper and my modern Stacie dolls.

Remember the Simplicity 5861 patterns for Skipper?

They looked a lot like the Barbie patterns from the same era. (Scroll down a bit to see the Simplicity 4700 Barbie version of these patterns, and click here to read that blog post about “Matching Patterns to Fit Barbie and Skipper.”)

But are there similar patterns for Pepper and/or Patch that have already been designed to imitate the vintage Simplicity 4883 Tammy/Sindy doll clothes patterns? Because if so, I don’t want to tread on other people’s pattern copyrights. I will skip that project all together.

So if you know of any existing vintage patterns designed for Pepper or Patch that are a lot like my Simplicity 4883 patterns for Tammy/Sindy dolls, please leave a comment and maybe a link, so I can see what those patterns look like.

Thanks!

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