7-inch Dolls, Daily Patterns, Lottie dolls, Whole Costumes for Dolls

Let’s make a bolero jacket for Lottie dolls with today’s free patterns at ChellyWood.com #Sewing #DollClothes

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

Last week I gave you the free PDF sewing patterns for making a pinafore dress to fit your 7 inch Lottie dolls.

Today I’m giving you a bolero project — a tiny little jacket — that will go with last week’s pinafore. YAY!

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This is an image of the Lottie doll from Arklu. This doll is in a purple framed photo. She stands with hands spread apart, modeling a handmade bolero jacket, tiny purse, and a pinafore dress. All garments are made of green cotton, which has a tiny daisy print on it. The doll has long chestnut brown hair and fringes (bangs). She wears a pair of Victorian or Edwardian style boots that are brown with little black toes and black heels. The boots are decorated with tiny cream-colored lace ribbons. The doll's purse is made with the green daisy cotton fabric, a white felt faux flap "closure" that has a little green button on it, and a lime green ribbon to act as a strap. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in the lower left corner of the photo.
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 this little Bolero jacket, you’ll need some small-print cotton fabric.

There’s a series of how-to videos listed below the pattern itself, for those of you who are new to sewing. These include my tutorial videos for gathering, doing a whipstitch, doing a backstitch, and much more.

In my video tutorial showing how to make this bolero, I also talk about the usefulness of Fiskars Stitchers, the little mini-scissors, for clipping seams. If you want to buy a pair of Fiskars Stitchers, it will really step up your sewing game, when it comes to making teeny-tiny doll clothes like today’s little dress project.

The image shows a pair of ReNew scissors Micro-Tip scissors on a cardboard packaging that has the recycle symbol on it. The text under the brand name says, "recycle blade and handle."
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Those links will help you find a pair of Fiskars Stitchers mini-scissors online.

If you use the A4 paper for your PDF sewing pattern, please take a moment to return to my website and offer feedback after you’ve made this project. I’ve only recently started to convert my American PDF sewing patterns to A4 paper PDF’s, and I’d like to know if my method for converting them is acceptable.

I’ve done two pattern tests at home with A4 paper, sewed them up, and tried them on my Lottie doll. They seem to fit just fine. But I’d still like to make sure the patterns will work across the pond, especially since I have to adjust my printer specs to suit the A4 paper before I print them.

A Lottie doll with long brown hair and bangs/fringes models a handmade pinafore dress with a bolero style coat or jacket and a little tiny purse that has a wee little button sewn onto the front flap of the purse. The purse his slung over Lottie's shoulder with a strap made of a green ribbon, in the exact same shade of green as the dress and bolero. The purse is made of the same green cotton fabric, but it has a white felt flap sewn onto it. The green cotton that was used to make this outfit has a tiny white daisy pattern with a little dot of yellow in the center of the daisies. Lottie wears brown leather boots that remind us of the Edwardian era.
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.

So please come back, after you’ve made the project, and let me know how it went. It’s okay to leave constructive criticism, but if the pattern isn’t working, please be specific about where it needs to be adjusted. Are the sleeves too long? Is the bodice too tight in the arm area? These are examples of helpful comments you could leave.

As you can see in the image above, there’s also a little purse that goes with this dress. I’ve included a link to that tutorial in the second set of bullets below.

I first posted the purse with Dawn/Pippa dolls’ dresses, so the tutorial for the purse shows one of those dolls holding the purse. However it works great for Lottie dolls as well!

Here we see the photo of a tiny miniature handmade doll's purse. The strap is made of a lime green ribbon. The body of the purse is made of green cotton with big psychedelic daisies in white and brighter lime green -- almost yellow. The flap is a faux (fake) purse flap made of white felt, overlaid on top of the green cotton purse dotted with daisies. The white felt has tiny green topstitches framing the flap. At the bottom, almost-pointed end of the purse flap is a tiny green button. A doll's hand holds the purse up by the strap. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in one corner.
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.

Which dolls will these patterns fit?

In this thumbnail framed in purple fabric with tiny white polka dots, an Arklu Lottie doll models handmade doll clothes including a dress, bolero jacket (coat) and purse. The text reads, "free patterns" and the site offers free printable A4 and American PDF sewing patterns for making these dolls' clothes.
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.

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."

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.

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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.

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 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.

Lottie dolls are manufactured and designed by Arklu (Ireland) Ltd., in Donegal, Ireland, and Arklu holds the registered trademark (™) for them in the US. Lottie dolls are distributed in the USA by Schylling, Inc. These dolls are distributed in the UK, Ireland, France, and Italy by Bigjigs Toys Ltd. Visit Lottie.com to learn more about these wonderful toys that were inspired by kids.

Chelsea 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.

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