6-inch doll clothes patterns, A4 Printer PDF Patterns, Palitoy's Pippa Dolls, Topper Dawn Dolls, Tutorials: Sewing for Dolls

Let’s make a coat, shirt, and pants for 6 inch Dawn or Pippa dolls #FashionDolls #Winter

On the left, a Topper Dawn doll wears a white short sleeved shirt with scoop neckline and long wide-legged pants. This doll faces right of the viewer. In the center, we see a Topper Dawn doll modeling the same blue pants, but she wears a winter coat made of felt over the top. She faces forward. On the right, we see a Topper Dawn doll modeling the same white cotton shirt and blue wide-leg pants, but this doll faces left of the viewer.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Scroll down to the second set of bullets to download the free printable PDF sewing pattern.*

A couple of weeks ago I gave you a pattern and sewing tutorial, so you could make the little white shirt you see pictured in the images above and below.

A Topper Dawn doll with long straight black hair in a 1970's style without bangs (fringes) models a pair of wide-legged blue pants and a white cotton short-sleeved shirt with a scoop neckline. Her shoes are made of silver plastic.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

On Tuesday this week, I re-posted my fly stitch embroidery tutorial, and then on Wednesday, I posted the pattern and tutorial for making the winter coat you see my Topper Dawn doll wearing in the image below.

(In case you didn’t read that blog post, it’s winter in the southern hemisphere, so a fuzzy felt coat is absolutely a great idea for this time of year!)

A Topper Dawn doll with long straight dark brown or black hair and very long eyelashes models a handmade felt coat with embroidered 3/4 inch long sleeves and a floral lining. She wears a white shirt under the coat, but the shirt is barely visible under the coat's open front. The bottom of the front of the coat also has blue zigzag embroidered stitches running along the bottom of the front of the coat. The Dawn doll's pants are made of a matching light blue cotton that perfectly matches the blue felt of the coat, in a pale pastel blue shade. The pants have wide legs, like a 1970's style pair of pants. The doll is wearing silver plastic shoes.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Now you’ll notice that the coat’s sleeves are only three-quarter length sleeves on my Topper Dawn doll, and I suppose you’ll find that’s true for Pippa and other similarly-proportioned fashion dolls in the six inch size range, so please keep that in mind.

But if you’d like to lengthen those sleeves but you don’t know how to do that, scroll down to the bottom of the page, where I talk about my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course.

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A Topper Dawn doll models a pair of wide-legged pants, showing the doll both in a walking pose and a standing still pose. The pants look very 1970's in style. the text reads "free pattern" and the ChellyWood.com logo appears in one corner.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Finally, on Thursday this week, I posted a free pattern and a new tutorial for making the wide-leg pants that you see in the image above.

To make today’s tiny pair of pants for 6 inch fashion dolls, you’ll need some cotton fabric. You’ll also need some 1/8 inch wide elastic. I use Elastic By the Yard, and I’ve had a lot of success with this brand.

On the left, a Topper Dawn doll wears a white short sleeved shirt with scoop neckline and long wide-legged pants. This doll faces right of the viewer. In the center, we see a Topper Dawn doll modeling the same blue pants, but she wears a winter coat made of felt over the top. She faces forward. On the right, we see a Topper Dawn doll modeling the same white cotton shirt and blue wide-leg pants, but this doll faces left of the viewer.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

For the shirt, you’ll also need some cotton fabric. In addition to that, I recommend using some size 4/0 snaps, the smallest size of snaps you can find, to close the back of the doll’s shirt.

Lastly, the coat or jacket will require a number of items as well. To make today’s embroidered, lined, felt jacket for little six-inch dolls like Topper Dawn and Pippa, you’ll need embroidery floss, embroidery needles (Clover is a good brand), cotton fabric, and a swatch of craft felt.

This is a photograph of a very tiny doll's bodice. It is being held by a human hand that is three times the size of the miniature doll's shirt bodice/dress bodice. Tiny stitches appear in red along the neckline of the pale blue floral fabric. There are small Fiskars "Snippers" scissors alongside the bodice, to indicate the scale of this very small garment. This is part of a blog post article that asks the question, "Can Palitoy Pippa dolls and Topper Dawn dolls swap clothes with a Remco I Dream of Jeannie doll?" This blog post asks this question because Chelly Wood (the writer, YouTuber, and doll clothing designer) has created some sewing patterns that will fit her I dream of Jeannie 6 inch fashion doll, and she wants to know if her free doll clothes patterns will also fit Pippa and Dawn dolls.
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.

 

In my tutorial videos, I also mentioned Fiskars Snips (or Fiskars Stitchers), which are the best type of scissors to use for clipping teeny tiny seams. I love mine — especially when I’m making the tiniest doll clothes! They are a must-have item!

Click here to see all Dawn/Pippa doll clothes sewing patterns on my website, and if you’re excited to see free patterns for Dawn and Pippa dolls, you may want to subscribe to either this website or my YouTube channel, so you’ll be notified as I upload more free patterns and tutorials in the future.

Which dolls will these patterns fit?

Free patterns and tutorial videos for making these doll clothes:

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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.

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."

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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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*When you click links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include Amazon, JoAnn Fabric, Etsy, and the eBay Partner Network. As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. To learn more about how my website uses affiliate marketing, please visit the website’s Privacy Policy page.

To honor the trademark rights of the doll 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.

Dawn dolls are products offered by Topper Corporation, which once held the registered trademark for them (™). However at the time of this blog posting, these dolls are no longer in production.

Pippa dolls were produced in Great Britain by Palitoy from 1972 to 1980. Palitoy is now a defunct company, and to my knowledge the Pippa dolls have not had a revival. You can learn more about Palitoy on Wikipedia. You can learn more about these dolls at OverZone’s Pippa Dolls Archive or on the Pippa ID Parade.

Remco once held the trademark for the I Dream of Jeannie dolls, but these dolls are no longer in production. Their focus at the time of this blog post, appears to be on wrestling action figures. If you’d like to see the toys offered by Remco today, please click this link.

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