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Let’s make a little cardboard chair for Barbie w/today’s FREE pattern! #DIYBarbie #DIYcrafts

 

Today I’m taking an older tutorial, re-vamping it, adding voiceover, and generally updating it. This tutorial video will show you how to make a Renaissance chair in 1:6 scale (Barbie sized) for your dioramas for fashion dolls and similar-sized action figures.

Before we dive into this project, I need to make my required disclaimer statement: As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. To learn more about how affiliate marketing works on my website, please go to the Privacy Policy page. Thank you!

Image of two Renaissance-style 1/6 scale chairs made of recycled cardboard.
Visit ChellyWood.com for the free, printable pattern to accompany the tutorial video that shows how to make these chairs.

To make today’s Renaissance chair project, you’ll find it helpful to have on hand:

This appears to be a scene from Chelly Woods stop motion video graphic novel, Romeo and Juliet with dolls on YouTube. We see a well decorated room in the Capulet family household, and it's almost as if Romeo and Juliet have been embracing or perhaps are just dancing. Their arms are outstretched toward one another. Romeo is played by Texas A&M Ken. Juliet is played by Momoko doll. Against one wall, a tiny China hutch holds bottles of dried beans, a row of handmade teeny-tiny candles, a wicker basket, goblets, empty jars, and a brass jewelry box or something like it. On the wall is a famous painting from a scene from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Against the wall behind Romeo, we see a tiny handmade Renaissance style chair with Asian-influenced cushions. Juliet's dress is made of blue satin (or something that looks like satin) embroidered with gold floral patterns. She wars a white cotton shift beneath the pinafore dress and sleeves. The white shift is embroidered with tiny white flowers. Her Veil's cap is made of blue cotton and seems to tie behind her hair. The veil's soft tulle white fabric trails down below her long red-blond hair. Ken wears a flannel cavalier's hat made of brown flannel with a wide brim. It's decorated with tiny white and brown feathers. His doublet jacket is made of blue cotton and in places brown cotton with a leafy pattern. There are ribbon stripes going horizontally across the front of his jacket, and it laces up in front. His sleeves lace up as well. He wears an off-white cotton shirt beneath the jacket. His pants are bi-color pants made of blue cotton and brown cotton. He wears dark brown knee-high flannel boots. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in the lower right corner of the photograph.
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.

Here’s the free, printable PDF pattern for making the cardboard chair that you see in the images above. Please scroll up to the top of today’s blog post to access the DIY tutorial video showing how to make the chair.

As it was mentioned in the video, this chair appears in my stop-motion video, Romeo and Juliet with Dolls. If you haven’t seen it yet, go check it out at this link!

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.

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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Chelly Wood and the ChellyWood.com website are not affiliated with any of the doll or toy companies mentioned in this blog post, but Chelly enjoys designing her doll clothes to fit a variety of dolls. To learn more about the doll companies mentioned in today’s post, please visit the doll or toy company’s website.

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