For your free patterns and tutorial videos, please scroll down to the third set of bullets.
Today’s video tutorial will show you how to make a pair of 11 inch fashion doll shorts with a front fly. To make today’s project, I recommend that you use the following items:
- small print cotton fabric for the outer fabric
- cotton broadcloth in a solid color for the lining (or recycle an old tee shirt and use that)
- Dritz size 2/0 snaps(2 of them)
When buying fabric for a tiny project like this, you may just use scraps, but if you’re buying fabric new, you won’t need much at all. Online you can order a third of a yard and that’s more than enough. (In fact, you’ll have plenty of fabric left over to make another outfit.)
Now with regard to cutting out the fabric, your pattern (found in the second set of bullets below) includes two different shorts fronts and a shorts back. You’ll need all 3 pattern pieces. Cut out 2 fly fronts, 2 non-fly fronts, and 4 backs altogether. That’s because these shorts will be lined.
In the tutorial, you’ll see that I cut 1 fly front out of printed fabric and one out of solid-colored cotton broadcloth; I cut 1 non-fly front out of printed fabric and one out of solid-colored cotton broadcloth; I cut two shorts backs out of printed cotton fabric and two shorts backs out of solid-colored cotton broadcloth.
When cutting them out, make sure your printed fabric fronts are opposite sides of the shorts. Do the same for the printed fabric backs. For example, you don’t want to have two left-butt-cheek fabrics! LOL! You must have both a left and right side for the back of the shorts.
If you’d like to make the reversible vest (tank top) to go with your shorts, that pattern and tutorial is found in this blog post.
Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:
- Queens of Africa Dolls
- modern and Made-to-Move Barbie dolls
- vintage Barbie dolls
- vintage Francie dolls
- Liv dolls
- Pedigree Sindy (mine is from the 1970’s)
Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfit shown at the top of this page:
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for doll shorts with fly front on American printer paper
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for doll shorts with fly front on A4 paper (for people in the UK and many other countries of the world)
- Tutorial video showing how to make the shorts (at the top of this page)
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to sew snaps on fabric
- How to do a backstitch
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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, 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.