For your free patterns and tutorial videos, please scroll down to the second set of bullets.

If you’re not familiar with Pedigree Sindy, please go back and read the blog posts from Monday the 3rd and Monday the 10th of June, 2024. She’s a fun doll to learn about!

In a nutshell, back in “the day,” Sindy was far more popular than Barbie in the United Kingdom, and there are many good reasons why. So at the request of followers who live in the UK, I’m going to post some of my own patterns for Sindy, and why not start with the bare essentials?

*Please note: when you click on 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.

If Sindy looks remotely familiar to you, that may be due to the fact that the original Sindy (when she was first released) used the Ideal Tammy doll’s head and body mold. But from there, she evolved significantly over time.

Now, you can probably tell in the image above that Ideal Tammy (and interestingly, the earliest Sindy dolls) have very different body types from the 1970’s and 1980’s Pedigree Sindy dolls, so be advised that my patterns for Pedigree Sindy below will include the reversible tank top (or “vest” for those of you in the UK) that Sindy wears on the right-hand images in the photo collage above; whereas the Tammy dolls will use a different tank top/vest pattern.

But honestly, the knickers/underpants will be the exact same pattern for both dolls. These patterns fit both ladies just fine.

To make today’s knickers, you will need some jersey fabric and a swatch of 1/4 inch wide (6 mm wide) picot lingerie elastic. For your jersey fabric, you can use an old tee shirt, as long as it has a fair amount of stretch to it.

To make the reversible summer top (vest/tank top), you’ll need cotton solid fabric, cotton small-print fabric, and some size 3/0 Dritz snaps.

In today’s video, I also mentioned Fiskars’ Stitchers for snipping around corners. They’re an incredibly helpful tool!

In closing, I’m looking for someone in the UK to help me test my A4 patterns. If you live outside the US, and you use A4 paper for your doll clothes patterns, please come back and offer feedback after you’ve used the patterns.

Let me know how they printed. Does the measurement tool measure correctly? Did the garments fit your dolls properly? And if not, how do they need to be adjusted?

I’ve used A4 paper with my own printer, but as I have to adjust my printer to use it, and then switch it back to American letter sized paper, I fear I may be making some mistakes. I just want to make sure that’s not the case, so any feedback you can offer is deeply appreciated!

*Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:

• Queens of Africa Dolls
• modern and Made-to-Move Barbie dolls
• Liv dolls
• vintage 12″ Sindy dolls
• Sindy
• vintage Barbie dolls
• 12 inch Tall Barbie dolls
• Ideal vintage Tammy dolls

Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the lingerie shown in the video:

• Free printable PDF sewing pattern for Sindy or Tammy knickers (underpants) — for A4 Paper
• Free printable PDF sewing pattern for Sindy or Tammy knickers (underpants) — Letter paper (American printer paper)
• Free printable PDF sewing pattern for Sindy’s vest (tank top) — A4 paper
• Free printable PDF sewing pattern for Tammy’s vest (tank top) — also fits older Pedigree Sindy dolls — for Letter paper (American printer paper)
• Tutorial video showing how to make the knickers (underpants) is found at the top of the page
• Tutorial video showing how to make the vest (tank top)
• How to sew elastic directly onto fabric (pull method)
• How to do a whipstitch
• How to do a backstitch
• How to do a baste stitch
• How to use a needle threader
• How to do a basic straight stitch
• How to choose fabric
• How to tie a knot using a needle and thread
• How to attach ribbon to doll clothes
• Tips on sewing with lace

For more of my free tutorials, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel, ChellyWood1.

If you would like to make a donation to this free doll clothes pattern website, please click here. There’s also a “Donate” button in the main menu.

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.

For any class on Creative Spark, you don’t have to follow a schedule. Just sign up when you’re ready.

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.

As always, feel free to pin, like, or tweet about my free patterns and tutorials.

To read more about my free sewing patterns and tutorials, please visit the “Helpful Tips” page.

Disclaimer/Credit/Affiliate Marketing Link:

*Please note: when you click on 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.

Queens of Africa dolls are products offered by the Slice by Cake company, which holds the trademark for them (™). They were designed by Taofick Okoya. Please visit the Queens of Africa website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys, books, and fashions.

Barbie, MTM Barbie, Tall Barbie, and Vintage Barbie 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.

Liv dolls were products designed and distributed by the Spin Master company, which still makes dolls and toys today (although the Liv dolls are no longer in production at the time of this blog post). The Spin Master company held the trademark for the Liv Dolls (™). Please visit the Spin Master Toys and Games website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys and games. Please be aware that the Chelly Wood animated doll is a Spin Master Liv doll that has been re-painted and had its wig colored to appear to look like the real doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood. This was done as a creative project by Chelly’s daughters, and the Spin Master Toys and Games company was not involved in the doll’s makeover in any way.

Sindy dolls were originally created by Pedigree Dolls & Toys, but they have been made by other manufacturers including Hasbro, Vivid Imaginations, and New Moon. Currently (at the time of this blog post) a limited number of the newest version of these dolls is being manufactured by Kid Kreations of Staffordshire, England. I haven’t tried my doll clothes on this newer version, but sewists have told me my Tammy doll patterns do fit the vintage Sindy dolls created by Pedigree Dolls & Toys. Please visit one of these toy companies’ websites to learn more about the toys they produce.

Ideal Toy Company owned the registered trademark for the entire Tammy family of dolls, but that company is no longer in business. I’m including links to the Wikipedia pages on these topics for anyone who would like to research these dolls.