11-inch doll clothes patterns, A4 Printer PDF Patterns, Barbie Patterns, Daily Patterns, Made to Move Barbie, Whole Costumes for Dolls

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For your free patterns and tutorial videos, please scroll down to the second set of bullets.

I’ve had today’s pattern for making three styles of trousers or jeans to fit 11.5 inch (29 cm) dolls like Barbie on my website before, but recently I’ve done a little bit of modernizing and expanding.

For example, here in the US, we use 8.5 x 11 inch paper for printing patterns, but in other parts of the world (including the UK), they use A4 paper. So today’s tutorial has been upgraded to include voiceover instructions, but also, in the pattern section, you’ll find two patterns available: one is an American printable pattern for three styles of jeans/trousers; the other is the A4 pattern for printing outside the United States.

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Image shows Mattel's Tall Barbie from the Fashionista line wearing a pair of hand-made bell bottom jeans (boot cut jeans) with a tie dye shirt. She poses in front of a painting of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris (a facsimile of the famous painting by Monet), and she stands beside a wicker papasan chair with a handmade gray and pink cushion that has been upholstered with 1:6 scale buttons. The Tall Barbie's expression looks cheerful and spontaneous, like someone took the photo unexpectedly.
Click here to find all the patterns and tutorials you’ll need to make this project: https://wp.me/p1LmCj-FCT

In my video, I show two different outfits with these bell-bottom pants. If you want to make the tie-dyed shirt, you’ll need to find some tie-dye felt (which is hard to come by these days) and use my felt summer top pattern (see patterns below, in the second set of bullets).

That tie-dyed sleeveless shirt also uses a fringe trim along the bottom of it and a 1/4 inch double-fold bias tape around the collar and arm holes.

It’s actually a Tall Barbie wearing the outfit shown above, but today’s patterns are for a regular-height 11.5 inch Barbie (although the patterns are also available for Tall Barbie on my website too).

Twin Black Barbie dolls strike a pose, flaunting a vibrant yellow crop top or vest adorned with a sewing motif, paired with sassy pink cotton bell-bottoms. The text playfully declares, "free patterns."
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.

For the strappy summer top shown on my MTM Barbie (above), a regular cotton fabric will do, but you’ll also need a couple of size 4/0 snaps.

To make the pull-on elastic-waist trousers, you’ll need some cotton fabric (lightweight stretch denim is best for making jeans) and 1/8 inch elastic.

In today’s video, I also mentioned Fiskars’ Stitchers for snipping around corners. They’re an incredibly helpful tool!

A black Barbie chills in her ultra-chic, sun-drenched office, perched on a mid-century modern purple office chair. The space is bathed in white with a desk that means business. This Barbie is all about style—rocking pink bell-bottom trousers that scream retro flair and a cheerful yellow top. Her sunny yellow chunky sandals peek cheekily from beneath the bell bottoms as she crosses her legs, exuding a vibe of laid-back confidence.
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.

Before I’m done, I want to thank my sister-in-law, Chanda, who gave me that lovely purple office chair that Barbie’s sitting on. What a thoughtful gift! I was able to create a really neat image with this cute little prop!

Whenever I place an image in my blog posts, I have to describe it with what’s called “Alt Text” (a description that’s often used by blog readers who are legally blind — and yes, blind people do sew). I’ve been experimenting with AI to help me describe my Alt Text for blog images, and I was especially happy with the description it came up with for the image above! Check this out:

A black Barbie chills in her ultra-chic, sun-drenched office, perched on a mid-century modern purple office chair. The space is bathed in white, with a desk that means business. This Barbie is all about style—rocking pink bell-bottom trousers that scream retro flair and a cheerful yellow top. Her sunny yellow chunky sandals peek cheekily from beneath the bell bottoms as she crosses her legs, exuding a vibe of laid-back confidence. — Isn’t that a fun description?

Today’s patterns will fit these dolls:

Here are your free, printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making the outfits shown at the top of this page:

Feel free to pin, like, or share my free patterns and tutorials.

You may also find these tutorial videos helpful:

Learn more about Chelly’s classes:

At the end of today’s tutorial video, I mention my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” class. This link will take you to the information page on the C&T Publishing website, where you can learn more about this course and other courses I’m teaching.

This informational image shows a woman who is working at a craft table, altering doll clothes pants patterns. The text above her head says, "How to alter doll clothes patterns" followed by the words "online course" and the following bulleted bits of information about the Creative Spark online course the Chelly Wood will be teaching: bullet point 1: 40 plus videos; bullet point 2: work at your own pace; bullet point 3: one fee (no subscription); bullet point 4: learn how to enlarge or reduce your patterns. Next is a textbox encouraging you to "register now" and under this it says, "Go to Creative Spark dot CT pub dot com" and "search for Chelly Wood."
Link to Chelly’s courses

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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.

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.

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