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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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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.
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.
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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Which dolls will these patterns fit?
- Dawn dolls from Topper (6 and 1/8 inch or 15.5 cm)
- dollhouse-sized dolls (1:12 scale)
- Pippa dolls from Palitoy (6 and ½ inch or 16.5 cm)
- Remco’s I Dream of Jeannie dolls
Free patterns and tutorial videos for making these doll clothes:
- Here’s the free printable PDF sewing pattern for making a tiny shirt, using American printer paper
- Here’s the free printable PDF sewing pattern for making a tiny shirt, using A4 printer paper (for people living in the UK and many other countries)
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for the skirt (use skirt View A — sorry I don’t have the A4 pattern)
- Tutorial showing how to make an elastic-waist skirt (please note: this video shows a pattern for a bigger doll, but the steps are generally the same — just be sure to look back at the instructions at the top of this blog post for details about using elastic cord)
- Here’s the tutorial for making the shirt
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to do a backstitch
- How to pull elastic through a casing
- 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 use selvage
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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.