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Sew a vest (tank top) for Pedigree Sindy dolls with today’s free A4 and American PDF sewing patterns #ValentinesDay #Lingerie

For your free patterns and tutorial videos for making this vest/summer top, please scroll down to the second set of bullets.

If you’re not familiar with Pedigree Sindy, please go back and read the blog posts from Monday the 3rd and Monday the 10th of June, 2024. She’s a fun doll to learn about!

In a nutshell, back in “the day,” Sindy was far more popular than Barbie in the United Kingdom, and there are many good reasons why. Americans probably recognize my Ideal Tammy doll, who looks a lot like Sindy for a good reason! Again, I have older blog posts about the connection between these two dolls, if you want to explore their history.

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On the left, either a vintage Ideal Tammy doll or an identical Pedigree Sindy doll from the early 1960's models handmade knickers (panties/underpants) and a handmade vest (tank top). To her right, we see a newer (1980's or 1970's) Pedigree Sindy modeling the same knickers but a different vest/tank top/ strappy lingerie. There are four photos, showing the two dolls from different angles: front, back, sideways, and 3/4 turned away from the viewer. The Pedigree Sindy on the right has chestnut brown hair while the Sindy/ Tammy doll on the left has strawberry blonde hair. All photos show the dolls barefoot.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

But today’s video will show you how to make Sindy a reversible vest/tank top. (In the UK, it’s called a “vest” whereas here in the US, we would say “tank top” for the same garment.)

It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow, so what better time to revisit undergarments for our favorite dolls?

To make the reversible summer top (vest/tank top), you’ll need cotton solid or jersey solid-colored fabric, cotton small-print fabric, and some size 3/0 Dritz snaps.

Four photos show Pedigree Sindy modeling a handmade floral skirt (cotton with pink and purple leaves along with mint green leaves) and vest (in the US called a tank top). The vest is reversible. One side is made of purple jersey fabric while the other side is made of the same pink and purple cotton leafy print that the skirt is made of. Sindy wears a purple jersey headband and silver plastic shoes. The four photos show these poses: side view of the tank top in its cotton version; front view of the tank top in its jersey version; back view of the vest in its jersey version; front view of the vest in its leafy cotton version. The text at the bottom reads "Happy Valentine's Day from Chelly Wood dot com." Stitched purple and turquoise blue hearts adorn the text.
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.

I’m also including a pair of underpants in today’s free patterns. To make today’s underpants, you will need some jersey fabric and a swatch of 1/4 inch wide (6 mm wide) picot lingerie elastic. For your jersey fabric, you can use an old tee shirt, as long as it has a fair amount of stretch to it.

The little leafy skirt you see in the images above is a project I’m still working on, for Sindy. I hope to get that video and pattern posted (again, A4 patterns will be available) later on. So as it says at the end of my video, it’s not a bad idea to subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates, or just subscribe to my blog posts. (Scroll down or look in the side panel for a red subscribe button.)

In today’s video, I also mentioned Fiskars’ Stitchers for snipping around corners. They’re an incredibly helpful tool!

A vintage Pedigree Sindy doll with chestnut brown hair models a pair of handmade white cotton jersey fabric knickers and a white cotton spotty vest with straps. The logo for Chelly Wood dot com reminds us to visit Chelly Wood's free doll clothes sewing pattern website, ChellyWood.com, for free printable PDF sewing patterns to fit vintage Pedigree Sindy, vintage Ideal Tammy, and many other dolls. Sewing patterns are available as a PDF in A4 paper format.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

In closing, I have had these vest-and-underpants patterns and a similar videos available on my website for a while now, but today’s video brings it home with Sindy as the star of the video!

So today’s video has been specially made for all the Sindy fans out there!

*Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:

Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the lingerie shown in the video:

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This is a JPG image of the free printable PDF sewing pattern on A4 printer paper, for a pair of knickers (underpants) to fit Pedigree Sindy dolls, Ideal Tammy dolls, and similar sized fashion dolls. It is marked with Creative Commons, Attribution symbols and the Chelly Wood dot com logo.
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For anyone who would like to expand their dolls’ wardrobes, you should really check out my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course and my “Design Your Own Doll Pants Patterns from Scratch” classes on the Creative Spark online learning platform. Here’s my bio page on their website, where you can learn more.

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.

Barbie, MTM Barbie, Tall 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.

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.

Ideal Toy Company owned the registered trademark for the entire Tammy family of dolls, but that company is no longer in business. I’m including links to the Wikipedia pages on these topics for anyone who would like to research these dolls.

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