Please scroll down to the second set of bullets for the free printable PDF sewing patterns and links to any additional relevant tutorial videos.
Yes, as the heading states, today I’ll be showing you how to make this lovely little A-line dress with flutter-style sleeves, and it will fit Disney 9 inch Tinkerbell fairy dolls along with a wide variety of other dolls in the 8-inch, 9-inch, and even some dolls in the 10-inch size range.
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For today’s project, you’ll need a few Dritz size 3/0 or 4/0 snaps and some small-print fabric. In my tutorial video, I also mention my little Fiskars Mini Stitchers scissors, which are a super handy tool when you’re clipping seams and corners on teeny tiny doll clothes like this.
At the end of the tutorial, I also talked about my online courses. Please scroll all the way down to the bottom of today’s post, to read more about the classes I teach in doll clothes pattern alteration and design.
I should also mention that today’s tutorial is a remastered version of the flutter-sleeved dress that I first posted for the EverAfter High and Monster High dolls. That original tutorial video showed the dress in purple (see image below), but my original tutorial video didn’t use voiceover; whereas today’s new version of the tutorial does offer the voiceover.
There are a couple of reasons, why I need to remaster these older tutorials to include voiceover.
First, by giving the tutorial video a voiceover, YouTube is then able to translate the closed captioning into many languages, so people all over the world can view and understand the video. Second, visually impaired people who sew will also benefit, when the instructions are given in audio form.
And as you can see, both by the photo above and the list below, there’s a large number of small-bodied dolls that can fit in this little number! So it has been a very popular video, in spite of the fact that it has been missing voiceover since it was first published in 2017.
So please be patient as I update some of my older tutorial videos. It’s important to make them available to a wider audience!
*Today’s free patterns will fit the following dolls:
- Bratz dolls (8 inches)
- Breyer Rider dolls (8 inches)
- Ever After High dolls (10 inches)
- Ginny Weasley dolls (9.75 inches or 25 cm)
- Kuu Kuu Harajuku dolls (9 and a half inch)
- Lottie dolls (7 inches)
- Mego female action figures (8 inches)
- Monster High female dolls (10 inches)
- SnapStar Dolls (9.5 inches)
- Spin Master La Dee Da dolls (10 inches)
- Stacie dolls from Mattel (9 inches)
- Sunshine Family adult female dolls, vintage from Hasbro (8.75 inches)
- Tinkerbell Disney Fairy dolls (9.5 inches)
- World of Love vintage dolls from Hasbro (9 inches)
Here’s the free printable PDF doll clothes sewing pattern for making today’s doll clothes and some links to additional tutorial videos that may help:
- Here’s a link to the free PDF sewing pattern (use the View C pieces — a sleeve, skirt front, skirt back, and both bodice pieces)
- Here’s the link to tutorial video for making the dress (it shows a different doll, but the instructions are exactly the same)
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to sew snaps on fabric
- How to do a backstitch
- How to gather fabric
- 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 press seams open, using a hot iron
- How to sew rickrack
- How to use selvage
- How to attach ribbon to doll clothes
- Tips on sewing with lace
- How to add a ruffle to a skirt
For more of my free tutorials, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel, ChellyWood1.
Before I go, I want to mention my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course on the Creative Spark online learning platform will teach you how to alter pants, skirts, dresses, and shirts too. If you haven’t looked into it yet, you can click here to learn more.
I also have a new course on the Creative Spark Online Learning platform which teaches you how to design your own doll pants patterns from scratch, including leggings, overalls, and fly-front jeans. Click here to check out that new course, which is only $19.99!
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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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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.
Stacie, Ginny Weasley, vintage Sunshine Family, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, Monster High, and Ever After High 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.
Bratz dolls are products offered by MGA Entertainment, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the MGA Entertainment website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Breyer dolls and horses are products offered by Breyer, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Breyer website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Disney fairy dolls are products offered by the Disney Corporation, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Official Shop Disney website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Spin Master La Dee Da dolls are products offered by Spin Master, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Spin Master website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
World of Love is a product that was once owned and distributed by Hasbro, which holds the registered trademark for these retired toys (™). Please visit the Hasbro Toy website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Mego action figures are products offered by Mego, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Mego company website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.