For your free patterns and tutorial videos, please scroll down to the second set of bullets.
Last week I posted a re-mastered version of an older tutorial that needed some voice-over, and it showed you how to make a winter coat for Barbie with a front separating zipper. Sorry my photos are so grainy, but this project was one of the original projects on my website; that old camera wasn’t nearly as nice as the one I use today!
I’m adding the jeans pattern to the ensemble, so you can make a whole wintery outfit with a coat and a pair of jeans, perhaps to give someone as a holiday gift.
To make the jacket, you’ll need a 4-inch separating zipper and two strips of piping-style polyester cord trim, which is why today’s pattern has been given five flowers on my difficulty scale. Although I used slippery polyester for my jacket, you could use cotton, which doesn’t look as shiny, but is easier to sew.
If you buy your zipper using the link above, you may find it easier to make this jacket because it’s a reversible zipper. The nice thing about a reversible zipper is this: you don’t have to worry about whether or not you’ve got the pull on the correct side! YAY!
To make the jeans my Barbie is wearing with her jacket, you’ll need some lightweight denim or denim-look cotton fabric and some 1/8 inch wide elastic.
Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:
Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfit shown at the top of this page:
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for a zip-front ski jacket to fit fashion dolls
- Tutorial video showing how to make the zip-front ski jacket
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for making the jeans (use View B)
- Tutorial video showing how to make the jeans
- Link to a separating zipper that’s offered in a 4″ size
Credit:
Queens of Africa dolls are products offered by the Slice by Cake company, which holds the trademark for them (™). They were designed by Taofick Okoya. Please visit the Queens of Africa website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys, books, and fashions.
Barbie, Curvy Barbie, Tall Barbie, MTM Barbie, and Vintage Barbie 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.
Liv dolls were products designed and distributed by the Spin Master company, which still makes dolls and toys today (although the Liv dolls are no longer in production at the time of this blog post). The Spin Master company held the trademark for the Liv Dolls (™). Please visit the Spin Master Toys and Games website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys and games. Please be aware that the Chelly Wood animated doll is a Spin Master Liv doll that has been re-painted and had its wig colored to appear to look like the real doll clothing designer, Chelly Wood. This was done as a creative project by Chelly’s daughters, and the Spin Master Toys and Games company was not involved in the doll’s makeover in any way.