Make a pretty winter coat for Barbie’s little sister Chelsea dolls @ ChellyWood.com with today’s free patterns

A Mattel Chelsea (little sister of Barbie) doll models handmade doll clothes including what looks like a purple floral skirt or dress under a pink felt hand-embroidered winter coat or jacket. This is a black Chelsea doll with lots of curly chocolate brown hair.
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With winter closing in, right here in Idaho (where I live), it’s time to make some coats for our dolls!

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In this photo, a pink felt jacket is slightly open at the front, so you can see its cotton lining. At the bottom of the front of this jacket, a tiny rose has been embroidered on both sides of the jacket's opening. Closer to the side seams, tiny chrysanthemum like flower has been embroidered. Each tiny flower has light green leaves embroidered around it.
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.

Today’s project is most attractive if you can add embroidery along the bottom of the coat or jacket, so for your easy access, here’s a link to my embroidery tutorial gallery.

To make the embroidered flowers and leaves that you see on this project, you’ll need the rambler rose, the Algerian star (or daisy stitch), the French knot, the running stitch (for vines), and the detached chain stitch (for leaves).

Here we see the back of the tiny pink felt jacket. Along the bottom of the back of this jacket, there's a twisty light green vine with leaves, and all along the vine are tiny pink dots, indicating rose buds.
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.

OR you could just skip the embroidery and create a lined jacket with no added details.

To make today’s embroidered, lined, felt jacket for miniature dolls, you’ll need embroidery floss, embroidery needles (Clover is a good brand), cotton fabric, and a swatch of craft felt.

And if you want to make Chelsea’s shirt and skirt, visit this page for those tutorial videos and free PDF sewing patterns.

Three African American Chelsea dolls are shown in a snowy winter landscape. Each of them models the same handmade doll clothes from a different angle: on the left we see her from the back, with her little pink coat's leafy rose bud vines embroidered along the bottom of the back of the pink felt coat; in the center, we notice that her pink felt jacket is lined with pink floral cotton; and on the right, she stands in profile, so we can see the big roses and daisies embroidered at the front opening of her little fuzzy pink felt coat. Under her coat, she wears a handmade white cotton top and a handmade purple floral skirt with some pink and yellow flowers as well as green leaves printed on the purple cotton of her full knee-length skirt.
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 fit today’s coat project?

** Note: This jacket fits these dolls with a shorter sleeve length.

Free patterns and tutorial videos for making this outfit:

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This is the JPG version of a free printable PDF sewing pattern for making doll clothes to fit dolls in the 4 inch to 5 inch doll size range, including but not limited to Disney's Elsa mini toddler dolls, Disney's Anna mini toddler dolls, Mattel's Chelsea dolls, Mattel's Kelly dolls, and many others. The pattern includes a jacket and two different lengths of skirts. The pattern is marked with the ChellyWood.com logo and several Creative Commons Attribution symbols.
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.

Are you wishing this pattern was just a little different in its design? That’s what my paid course teaches you: “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns.”

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." If you sign up for one of Chelly Wood's Creative Spark online courses, you can create a doll wardrobe to suit dolls of any shape and size. Find out more at CreativeSpark.ctpub.com

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Also note that I am not affiliated with any of the doll or miniatures companies mentioned in this post, but to honor their trademark rights, I am including links to their websites in the section below. Please feel free to visit their website and consider purchasing one or more of the dolls mentioned here.

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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.

The I Dream of Jeannie dolls were produced by Remco, but these dolls are no longer in production. It was based on the sitcom of the same name, which aired on NBC “from September 18, 1965, to May 26, 1970” according to Wikipedia. Rights to this doll are linked to the sitcom and its creators.

Kelly, Heart Family baby dolls, and 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.

Strawberry Shortcake dolls are products offered by Shortcake IP Holdings LLC, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Strawberry Shortcake website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Disney’s Anna and Elsa mini toddler dolls are products offered by the Disney corporation, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Disney Toys 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.

Pippa dolls were produced in Great Britain by Palitoy from 1972 to 1980. Palitoy is now a defunct company, and to my knowledge the Pippa dolls have not had a revival. You can learn more about Palitoy on Wikipedia. You can learn more about these dolls at OverZone’s Pippa Dolls Archive or on the Pippa ID Parade.

Because they are no longer in production at the time of this post, visit the Wikipedia page on Dawn dolls to learn more about these dolls, which are “quite popular as collectors items.”*

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*Wikipedia contributors. “Dawn doll.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 20 Mar. 2023. Web. Accessed 27 Jul. 2023.

Wikipedia contributors. “I Dream of Jeannie.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 24 July 2023. Web. Accessed 20 Aug. 2023.

3 thoughts on “Make a pretty winter coat for Barbie’s little sister Chelsea dolls @ ChellyWood.com with today’s free patterns

  1. Hi, Chelly!
    Apparently something went wrong with your embroidery tutorials page. None of the links are working but the last two ones.

    1. Okay, thank you for letting me know. This will take a little while to fix, so I’ll work on it over the weekend.

      Sometimes my website does updates that can throw off an aspect of the site’s navigation tools. I think that’s likely what happened.

    2. I’ve re-designed my embroidery tutorials gallery. Thank you so much for letting me know about that, Débora. Your act of kindness is deeply appreciated!

      I don’t have a whole crew of people helping me run this website, so I really do count on the thoughtfulness of my followers to let me know when there’s a problem like this. I send you great, warm wishes for your thoughtful comment! 🙏

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