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St. Patrick’s Day dress sewing adventure for Barbie or her retro buddy Francie! 🍀✨ #SaintPatricksDay #GirlsNightOut

On a purple and white striped background (vertical stripes), a Barbie with auburn hair and deep dark chocolate skin tone stands beside a brunette Francie with bangs. There are two photos of each doll wearing the same green cotton dress dotted with tiny white shamrocks. The dress uses the same green cotton with shamrocks for the straps. Francie wears black kitten heels with pointy toes while Barbie wears a more modern pair of strappy high heel sandals. The dolls are turned to show the dress from a front view, a profile view, and a slightly angled view on the different dolls. It has a pretty basic strappy bodice with a pencil skirt that's slightly gathered at the waist and goes down to just below the knees of the dolls.
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I’ve had this dress available on my website for a long time now, but I’ve only posted it as a Valentine’s Day dress and a springtime/Easter dress.

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It may seem silly that I’m now posting my Valentine’s Day dress pattern for St. Patrick’s day, but honestly, I was recently given some small-print St. Patrick’s Day fabric and at first, I didn’t know what to do with it. However I really like my own pencil skirt dress pattern. I really do!

A vintage Mattel Francie doll models a bright green cotton dress with a white miniature shamrock print. Her feet are crossed at the ankles and she stands slightly angled to the viewer's right. She's a brunette doll with bangs and real eyelashes. Her shoes are black.
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So this is the dress I decided to make! And that’s the whole story behind today’s blog post. It’s as simple as that.

As you can see in the images I’m providing, today’s pencil skirt dress fits modern Barbie and vintage Francie. There are more dolls that will fit in this dress listed in the first set of bullets below.

Barbie models the green cotton St. Patrick's Day dress with tiny white shamrocks. She stands with her arms slightly out from her body and her legs spread out, so we can see that the dress is a snug fit and the bodice has a slight sweetheart dip at the front of the bodice, between where the straps are sewn to the front of the bodice. Barbie's auburn hair is up in a high pony tail.
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.

If you’d like to make today’s St. Patrick’s Day pencil skirt dress, you’ll need some St. Patty’s Day-themed cotton fabric and some size 4/0 Dritz snaps. The PDF sewing pattern for making today’s dress is found in the second set of bullets, below.

Now my original tutorial uses ribbon for the straps, but I used even more of the Saint Patrick’s Day green cotton fabric for my straps. I used the strap pattern from this shorter dress for my straps. And I’ve provided a link to that strap pattern in the second set of bullets below.

 

The tutorial for making the St. Patrick’s Day/Valentine’s Day pencil skirt dress will only show you how to make this dress with a ribbon strap, so to create the cotton strap, I recommend that you go to this tutorial for making my longer sundress, and forward the video to timestamp 1:30 to see how to make your straps. (I’ve posted the video above, for your convenience.)

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:

As always, feel free to pin, like, or tweet about my free patterns and tutorials. Here’s an image of the pattern pieces you’ll need to make today’s project:

This is the JPG image of a PDF sewing pattern that's available at ChellyWood.com as a free downloadable doll clothes sewing pattern to fit dolls in the 11-inch to 11.5-inch size range (28 to 29 cm). This is a pattern for sewing a pencil skirt dress with a simple bodice. The image shows three flowers on the difficulty scale for this website's patterns, for making the pencil skirt dress.
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free, printable sewing patterns for making this Valentine’s day dress and other doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

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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.

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