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Sew your own 1960’s dress for Pedigree Sindy w/today’s FREE A4 PDF sewing patterns! #sewingforgirls #sewUK

 

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Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been building a whole collection of doll clothes patterns for Pedigree Sindy, and this lovely little dress is one I’ve been calling my “ice skater dress” since I first became inspired to make it.

When I took the photos for this video, I didn’t yet own a pair of ice skates that Sindy could wear, so I just call it a 1960’s dress in the video. And truthfully, it was inspired by an early ’70’s dress that appears in a Barbie catalog from that era (the late ’60’s to early ’70’s). Scroll down a bit to see the silvery Barbie dress that inspired my pattern.

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On the right and left of a photo of Barbie, a Pedigree Sindy doll models a dress that has been designed to look almost identical to the shiny silver dress worn by Barbie in the middle of the photo. Barbie's dress uses silky skirt material attached to more of a glittery silver long-sleeved dress bodice with raglan style long sleeves; whereas Pedigree Sindy wears a blue and green striped jersey fabric for her miniskirt dress's bodice with the mini-skirt itself made of matching navy blue jersey fabric. Sindy's shoes are silver.
Barbie “Salute to Silver” photo credit: Mattel, 1970, LIVING BARBIE AND LIVING SKIPPER, [Brochure]. Mattel Inc. (1970).
If you’d like to make Sindy’s little “ice skater” dress (or mini-skirt dress from the late 1960’s/early 1970’s), you’ll need some jersey fabric and a few poppers/snaps. I also used Velcro, but that’s optional, as you may prefer to run a line of poppers/snaps down the back of the dress as a closure.

I do recommend using an old tee shirt for your jersey fabric, if you have it available. Or, you may wish to purchase some from a charity shop/second-hand store.

Another option is Fabscrap, a charitable organization that repurposes fabric that would otherwise go into landfills. Click this link to learn more about Fabscrap.

The text reads, "Free sewing pattern!" and the image shows Pedigree Sindy wearing a long-sleeved mini-skirt dress made of jersey fabric, reminiscent in style, of the late 1960's and early 1970's. The bodice part of Pedigree Sindy's dress uses fabric with horizontal navy blue, teal, and mint green stripes. The miniskirt is made of a matching navy blue jersey fabric. It's quite a short skirt, like an ice skater might wear. There are two photos of Sindy modeling the dress, along with graphic images of a hot pink pincushion and a softer pink sewn-on patch. The Chelly Wood dot com logo appears in the lower left corner of the image.
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A few other things that are mentioned or appear in my video today include the little Fiskars Micro-Tip scissors, bamboo chopsticks for turning garments, the tulip iron, and MayDay Labels.

I really like how sweet and cute Sindy looks in this adorable mini-skirt dress, and I hope you enjoy making one for your Pedigree Sindy doll as much as I enjoyed making mine!

A brunette Pedigree Sindy doll models a handmade miniskirt dress or ice skater style of dress with a very short mini-skirt. The doll leans a bit to her left, looking coyly at the camera. Her dress has long sleeves and the bodice is made of jersey fabric with horizontal stripes in blue, green, turquoise, and mint. The bottom half of the dress -- its miniskirt -- is made of a navy blue jersey fabric to identically match the stripe of navy blue running through the bodice of the dress. The doll's shoes are made of silver plastic.
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Here we see the JPG image of a free printable PDF sewing pattern that's available in both A4 printer paper and American letter paper style PDF formats. It's a sewing pattern for making dolls' clothes for Pedigree Sindy dolls, and this pattern will make a long-sleeved miniskirt dress from the 1960s or 1970s. It could also be used to sew an ice skater's dress for Pedigree Sindy dolls. The patterns are marked with Creative Commons Attribution symbols and the logo for Chelly Wood dot com.
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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."

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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.

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.

Momoko dolls are products offered by Petworks, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Momoko Dolls website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

Barbie, MTM Barbie, Francie, 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.

Disney Princess 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.

Sindy dolls were originally created by Pedigree Dolls & Toys, but they have been made by other manufacturers including Hasbro, Vivid Imaginations, and New Moon. Currently (at the time of this blog post) a limited number of the newest version of these dolls is being manufactured by Kid Kreations of Staffordshire, England. I haven’t tried my doll clothes on this newer version, but sewists have told me my Tammy doll patterns do fit the vintage Sindy dolls created by Pedigree Dolls & Toys. Please visit one of these toy companies’ websites to learn more about the toys they produce. The Sindy dolls are trademarked and as such, it should be noted that Chelly Wood and ChellyWood.com are not affiliated with either Pedigree or Kid Creations.  However Chelly has enjoyed designing doll clothes that will fit these dolls along with others in a similar size range…

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