For your free patterns and additional tutorial videos, please scroll down to the second set of bullets.
You may be wondering, “Hey… didn’t you already post this outfit?” Actually, I only posted the pattern and tutorial for making the fly-front shorts.
Later, I realized that although the vest (AKA tank top) appeared in other posts, I had not yet posted the shorts and the reversible summer top together on a single page of my website. So I’m going back to re-do that correctly today. (Sorry for the confusion!) 🤪
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To make this fly-front shorts and reversible summer top combo, you’ll need cotton solid fabric, cotton small-print fabric, and some size 3/0 Dritz snaps.
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Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:
- Queens of Africa Dolls
- Momoko dolls
- modern and Made-to-Move Barbie dolls*
- Pedigree Sindy dolls (vintage from the 1970’s and 80’s)
- vintage Francie dolls
Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos:
- 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)
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for Sindy’s vest (tank top) — letter paper (American printer paper)
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for Sindy’s vest (tank top) — A4 paper
- Tutorial video showing how to make the shorts
- Tutorial video showing how to make the vest/tank top
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to sew snaps on fabric
- How to do a backstitch
- How to use a needle threader
- How to choose fabric
Have you ever wished you could adjust a pattern for another doll so it would fit your Sindy doll?
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If you’d like to also make the skirt for Sindy, please go to the gallery of Sindy doll clothes patterns and click on the photo that shows Sindy in the three-tier skirt shown above.
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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.
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…
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.