Looking for the measurements for making your fashion-doll-sized purse? You’ve come to the right place!
Today’s tutorial video shows how to make a sweet little purse for fashion dolls, and it even has a tiny pocket that you can put your doll’s accessories in! So if you scroll down to the second set of bullets, I’ve listed the measurements for each piece of this miniature 1:6 scale purse, so you can easily cut out the pieces and make one for your fashion dolls.
Before I give you the specs for making today’s little purse project though, I need to make my required disclaimer statement: As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. To learn more about how affiliate marketing works on my website, please go to the Privacy Policy page. Thank you!
In the past, I’ve given you other purse projects with patterns, but this is the first time I’ve had a tutorial that shows you how to make a Barbie-sized doll’s purse with a side pocket.
To make today’s purse project, you’ll need two colors and/or patterns of cotton fabric (one for the lining and one for the outer fabric) along with some 1/8 inch wide Offray ribbon. Of course adding ribbon is optional, and if you’re good at making alterations, you could even trade the ribbon for rickrack or lace, just to be creative with this project.
At the end of today’s purse DIY video, I talk about my course that teaches people how to design their own doll pants from scratch. Click here to learn more about my online courses, including this doll-pants-design class.
It’s also helpful to have a chopstick for inverting tiny pieces and a pair of Fiskars Mini Stitcher scissors, to clip tiny corners.
Today’s purse or handbag will be about the right size for any of these dolls:
- Queens of Africa Dolls
- modern and Made-to-Move Barbie dolls
- vintage Barbie dolls
- vintage Francie dolls
- Liv dolls
- Pedigree Sindy dolls
- Creatable World dolls
- DC Superhero Girls
- Disney fairy 9 inch dolls (like the little Tinkerbell dolls)
- Disney Princess 10 inch dolls
- Disney’s 10 inch Moana dolls
- Ideal’s vintage Pepper dolls
- Momoko dolls
- Petite Barbie dolls
- Project MC Squared dolls
- Rainbow High 10 and a half inch dolls
- Skipper dolls
- Strawberry Shortcake 10 and 3/4 inch dolls
- Vintage 1960’s to 1970’s Skipper dolls
- Vintage 1980’s Skipper dolls
- Vintage Francie dolls
- vintage Sunshine Family adult female dolls
Here are the measurements you’ll need, in order to make today’s purse project:
- Pocket: 3 and 1/4 inch long by 1 and 1/4 inches wide
- Outer Fabric: 4 and 1/4 inches long by 2 and 1/2 inches wide
- Lining Fabric: 4 and 1/4 inches long by 2 and 1/2 inches wide
- Strap Fabric: 1 inch wide by 7 and 1/4 inches long
- Ribbon (Optional): 6 and 1/4 inches long by 1/8 inch wide (but this is slightly too long for what you’ll actually need; I just think it’s a good idea to have a bit extra, just to be safe)
You may also want to look at these other tutorial videos from Chelly Wood…
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to sew snaps on fabric
- How to do a backstitch
- How to gather fabric
- How to do a baste stitch
- How to pull elastic through a casing
- How to use a needle threader
- How to do a basic straight stitch
- How to use bias tape
- How to choose fabric
- How to tie a knot using a needle and thread
- How to measure a doll
- How to press seams open, using a hot iron
- How to sew rickrack
- How to use selvage
- How to attach ribbon to doll clothes
- Tips on sewing with lace
- How to add a ruffle to a skirt
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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.
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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…