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Let’s make a last-minute shirt and mini-skirt for Dawn or Pippa on #ChristmasEve !

A Dawn doll with long brown hair models a green mini skirt made of cotton and dotted with tiny white Christmas stars. The blouse the doll wears is white with a scoop neck and short sleeves like a T-shirt, even though it's made of white cotton. Her shoes are green plastic flats. She's stepping to the left of the viewer, with her hands at her sides.
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Today I’m going to show you how to make a little white cotton shirt with T-shirt length sleeves, to fit 6 inch fashion dolls like Pippa and Topper Dawn.

It’s Christmas eve, and since these doll clothes are teeny-tiny, you might actually be able to make them as last-minute gifts, if you really concentrate and get the job done!

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A Topper Dawn 6 inch doll stands amid shiny green and red presents, next to a decorated Christmas tree. The wall behind her is Christmas red. She wears a green mini-skirt made of cotton and a white short-sleeved shirt.
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To make today’s Christmas-themed mini-skirt for 6 inch fashion dolls, you might want some Christmas-themed cotton fabric.

Because this mini skirt is so small, you’ll need to use elastic cord instead of braided elastic.

A woman's hand holds a long strand of white, very thin cord elastic. The ends of the elastic cross near her finger tips.
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With elastic cord, you don’t need to run a safety pin through the casing, like I show in many of my elastic-waist-skirt tutorials.

Usually elastic cord is sturdy enough that you can just push it through the casing to the other side, cut it a little too long, and tie it in a knot at the opening of the casing. Then trim away the excess cord.

In this photo, a woman holds an almost-finished miniature skirt between her thumb and fingers. All we see is her hand and the miniature skirt (not the woman herself). We regard the skirt from the reversed side so the fabric looks somewhat parched rather than fully burgundy colored. We can clearly see the casing, as it has been sewn, and it is all bunched up together with a cord elastic sticking out from both ends of the casing. The two long strands of cord elastic have been knotted, right up close to the casing's edge, and the stringy bits of cord elastic extend out from the knot upward. The skirt has been hemmed, and as we're looking at the underside of the skirt, the hem is viewable. It appears to be a double-fold hem, sewn with a sewing machine. The skirt is so tiny, in its finished form, it will likely be about as long as the woman's whole thumb. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in one corner of this image.
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.

For the shirt, you’ll also need some cotton fabric. In addition to that, I recommend using some size 4/0 snaps, the smallest size of snaps you can find, to close the back of the doll’s shirt.

In my tutorial videos, I also mention Fiskars Snips (or Fiskars Stitchers), which are the best type of scissors to use for clipping teeny tiny seams. I love mine — especially when I’m making the tiniest doll clothes! They are a must-have item!

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A Topper Dawn 6 inch doll models her green Christmas print miniskirt and her white cotton shirt, while crossing her legs. She seems to be leaning against a pink background that has tiny white snowflakes dancing across the surface. There are two candy canes popping out of the upper left corner of the photo.
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Which dolls will these patterns fit?

A 6 inch Dawn miniature fashion doll from the Topper company models a handmade Christmas themed mini-skirt and a white top. She's walking through a living room (lounge room) toward a flocked Christmas tree, with a fireplace and Christmas stockings in the background behind her.
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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.

Dawn dolls are products offered by Topper Corporation, which once held the registered trademark for them (™). However at the time of this blog posting, these dolls are no longer in production.

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.

Remco once held the trademark for the I Dream of Jeannie dolls, but these dolls are no longer in production. Their focus at the time of this blog post, appears to be on wrestling action figures. If you’d like to see the toys offered by Remco today, please click this link.

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