For your free patterns and tutorial videos, please scroll down to the second set of bullets.
Today’s sundress will fit both the 10-and-three-quarters-inch Strawberry Shortcake dolls and 10-inch Rainbow High dolls, as you’ll see in the second set of bullets (below). Today’s little summer dress pattern can also serve as a pinafore over the top of the short-sleeved longer dress that I posted for Strawberry Shortcake.
And yes, it also fits Rainbow High dolls. In fact, in today’s video, I used the short-sleeved longer dress pattern to make the lavender colored dress that my Rainbow High Sheryl doll wears under the bright pink pinafore-style summer dress.
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To make today’s dress or pinafore, you’ll need some size 3/0 snaps (poppers), cotton small-print fabric, rickrack trim, and a length of un-gathered eyelet lace.
My video tutorial also suggests using Fiskars snippers for clipping seams. I highly recommend that brand in particular. It’s what I use.
For those of you enrolled in my alteration class, this should be easy enough to create. It won’t matter what length your eyelet lace is (within reason), as long as you adjust the pinafore skirt’s length to accommodate the lace’s length. So in other words, however long your lace is, you bring up your hemline on the pattern for the cotton part of the skirt, to accommodate the lace.
Since you’ll be sewing the lace to the wrong side of the hem, you won’t need to include the seam allowance. All of this should make sense to people who are already enrolled in my alteration class, which is being offered on the C&T Publishing’s Creative Spark online learning platform.
The class is called “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns,” and in the course, you will learn how to shorten and lengthen pants and skirts, how to design your own waistband, and how to re-size patterns from small to large and vice versa.
During my alteration class, I take you down the road of fashion design by turning today’s dress bodice into a separate shirt that actually fits your doll!
I hope you navigate over to C&T Publishing’s Creative Spark website to check out my paid course!
If you want to make the dress that goes under the pinafore, this link will take you to that page.
Today’s patterns will fit these dolls*:
- Rainbow High 10 and a half inch dolls
- Strawberry Shortcake 10 and 3/4 inch dolls
- Disney’s 10 inch Moana dolls
Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the dress shown in the video at the top of this page:
- Free printable PDF sewing pattern for making the pinafore dress
- Tutorial video showing how to sew the dress
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to do a backstitch
- How to gather fabric
- Here’s a helpful video all about working with lace (for the eyelet trim)
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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, but the links below do not necessarily help support this website (whereas the links in the bulleted list at the top DO support this website, as the top links are affiliate marketing links).
Rainbow High dolls are products offered by MGA Entertainment, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Rainbow High website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Disney Princess, Moana, and Disney fairy 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.
According to Wikipedia (as of 9 January 2022), Strawberry Shortcake “is a cartoon character used in greeting cards published by American Greetings. The line was later expanded to include dolls… The franchise is currently owned by the Canadian children’s television company WildBrain and American brand management company, Iconix Brand Group through the holding company Shortcake IP Holdings LLC.” I was unable to find a website for Shortcake IP Holdings LLC, but I believe they own the US trademark for the dolls, even though I believe my own doll was originally made and marketed by Hasbro. To learn more about these companies and their toys and products, please click on the links I’ve provided here.