12-inch doll clothes patterns, Daily Patterns, Holiday Crafts, Ken Patterns, Lammily Doll Patterns, Whole Costumes for Dolls

August is Black Business Month! Let’s make some African-style doll clothes patterns today! #BlackBusinessMonth #Sewing

This image was first posted to celebrate Kwanzaa, but these doll clothes simply bring to life clothing that reflect African traditions at any time of year. Today's blog post includes a reference to August as Black Business moth, so this photo shows Ken in a fez-type hat with a green African print fabric short sleeved shirt that has a collar and a front pocket. He also wears mustard yellow colored pants or trousers that reflect the yellow in his African print hat. Ken's hat matches the African print fabric used in the Black Lammily doll's poncho. Under her yellow-fringe edged poncho, the Lammily Traveler doll wears a red glistening holiday skirt trimmed with tulle and a ribbon. She also wears a simple felt top made of red felt. Behind the two dolls, who stand close to one another (like husband and wife), there's a painting of the pre-fire Notre Dame cathedral, alongside a table filled with feasting foods, a wicker chair loveseat, and a partially hidden wood china hutch that's loaded with books and ceramic items. The Chelly Wood DIY Kwanzaa cup appears on the table, which is covered by a green tablecloth. This is a very clever diorama, celebrating African heritage -- even the Notre Dame cathedral is a subtle reference to French, one of the main international languages of Africa!
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.

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Yes, as it says in the title of today’s blog post, August is Black Business month. What better way to celebrate this month’s theme, than to re-post these patterns with an African American theme?

This set of patterns was first posted here on chellyWood.com to celebrate Kwanzaa, but that was a long time ago. So the patterns had not yet been converted from JPG images to PDF printable patterns. Today’s blog post now offers the PDF version–hooray!

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Three African fabric prints are fanned out on a surface. Left and bottom is a red fabric with Spirograph-like swirls of darker maroon red and orange. The fabric laid on top of this is a black fabric with white mandala-like circles that have white crisscross patterns between each circle. The fabric on top, pictured in the upper right corner and fanning down to the lower right corner of this rectangular image, shows a myriad of patterns in different hues of blue. Patterns include teardrop shapes, circular shapes, smaller dots, swirls, and implied lines.
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.

To make today’s projects, you’ll need some small-print African style cotton fabrics, tulle for my Lammily doll’s skirt, felt for Lammily’s shirt (you can also use felt for Ken’s fez-style hat, or you can use small-print African cotton fabric), elastic, snaps, tiny buttons (for the front of Ken’s shirt), and if you follow the tutorial for making Ken’s hat, you’ll need some craft foam.

If you make the fez-style hat out of felt, though, you can skip the foam.

And since it is Black Business month, think about making your purchase from a Black-owned business. This link to Amazon makes it easy to find Black-owned businesses. There are lots of Black-owned businesses on Etsy as well.

Five printed fabrics have been laid out vertically, to show their patterns and colors. The fabric on the left has a repeating pattern of blue and pink chevron shapes. The next fabric going right has a blue background with mandala-like circles in an ivory color. The center fabric has a mostly white background with blue zigzag pinstripes at the bottom, a leaf-like shape of bright blue in the middle, and cross-crossed hash marks in maroon toward the top. The second-from-right fabric has gold diamonds surrounded by rich brown bubbly frames. The far right fabric appears as a blue background with light-colored heart shapes that have a myriad of little dots and swirls surrounding them.
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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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To honor the trademark rights of the doll and action figure 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.

Tammy’s Dad dolls were part of Ideal’s “Tammy” family of dolls. The Ideal Toy Corporation no longer exists, but you can learn more about the dolls they became famous for at the Doll Reference website.

Ever After High, all Ken dolls, and the Endless Hair Princess Barbie 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.

Tonner fashion dolls are products that were once offered by the Tonner doll company, which held the registered trademark for them (™), but it is no longer in business. However you can still learn about this company’s history on Wikipedia and purchased used dolls from eBay.

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