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Incorporate creativity into your Halloween celebrations with my free sewing patterns designed for vintage 1980’s Skipper and modern Stacie dolls. This blog post will guide you through a fun and engaging party craft project that parents and children alike will enjoy.

If you’re worried your guests won’t have the right dolls for this project, I have a list of 10 different dolls this Halloween party outfit will fit, including popular dolls like the Moana fashion dolls and the Tinkerbell Fairy dolls from Disney. You’ll see that list when you scroll down to the second set of bullets.

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As this outfit is bright orange, it would make a great Halloween themed outfit for a child or grandchild to make at a Halloween party. If you’re trying to teach a bunch of kids to sew, though, I would recommend using orange craft felt for the top, and follow this tutorial instead of the one found below.

Of course you can use whatever fabrics suit you, but generally speaking, to make today’s doll clothing, you will likely need one of the following items:

• cotton fabric (either solids or prints will work) on Etsy
• Gondola Snaps on Etsy (7 mm is a good size)
• OR 3/4 inch sew-on Velcro on Amazon
• 1/8 inch elastic on Amazon
• chopsticks (for inverting doll clothes)
• Fiskars Stitchers mini snips (for clipping seams efficiently)
• Gutermann sewing machine thread

This list comes from my “Buyer’s Guide” page, which is easily accessed from the home page.

If you’re planning to use this project as a Halloween party craft, I recommend cutting out all the pieces before the party begins. That way none of the guests will accidentally ruin your good sewing scissors!

You may also want to review the blog post I wrote called “5 Tips for Teaching a Child to Sew.”

And if you’re interested in using earth-friendly fabrics, please consider buying your fabric from FabScrap. FabScrap is a fabric recycle and reuse service, where you can buy fabrics that would otherwise go into landfills! Watch my FabScrap unboxing video to see what kinds of fabrics they sent me!

To learn more about FabScrap, this page on their website will tell you what a wonderful resource they offer!

Today’s patterns will fit these dolls*:

• Creatable World (10 inch) dolls
• Dora and Friends (8 inch) dolls
• Bratz dolls (both male and female 8”)
• Moana (9 and ½ inch) dolls
• Pepper (vintage 9” dolls — sister of Ideal Tammy )
• Skipper from the 1980’s (10 inch dolls)
• Stacie dolls (9” from Mattel — Barbie’s little sister)
• Sunshine Family (8 and ½ to 9 inch) dolls
• Tinkerbell fairy dolls (9+ inches from Jakks — Disney dolls)
• World of Love dolls from Hasbro (8 inch)

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

• Free American printable PDF sewing pattern for a 9 or 10 inch fashion doll’s Halloween party outfit
• Tutorial video showing how to make the summer top
• Tutorial video showing how to make the trousers or pants

And once again, here’s that link to the alternate sleeveless top made of craft felt.

You may also find these tutorial videos helpful:

• • How to do a whipstitch
  • How to sew snaps on fabric
  • How to do a backstitch
  • How to pull elastic through a casing
  • How to use a needle threader
  • How to do a basic straight stitch
  • How to choose fabric
  • How to tie a knot using a needle and thread
  • 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

 

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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 C&T Publishing website. Here’s my bio page on their site, where you can learn more.

For any class on the C&T Publishing site, you don’t have to follow a schedule. Just sign up when you’re ready.

It’s a one-time fee for the course, and there’s no specific time limit to finish your course. You can just take your time and learn at the pace that suits you. So go check out my paid courses on C&T Publishing, using this link.

As always, feel free to share my patterns and tutorials on social media. I only ask that you please let people know about my free doll clothes sewing pattern website, to help spread the word.

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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.

Skipper, Petite Barbie dolls, Creatable World, Kuu Kuu Harajuku dolls, and vintage Sunshine Family 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.

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.

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.

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.

Project MC Squared dolls and Rainbow High dolls are products offered by MGA Entertainment, which holds the trademark for them (™). Please visit the Project MC Squared website or the Rainbow High website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.

According to Wikipedia, “Ideal Toy Company was an American toy company founded by Morris Michtom and his wife, Rose. During the post–World War II baby boom era, Ideal became the largest doll-making company in the United States.” They produced the Tammy family line of dolls, including Ideal Pepper dolls, but eventually the Tammy line of dolls went out of production (with the exception of the Sindy doll — the UK version — which has had a recent revival). There have been a complicated series of sales of rights for Ideal toys since then, and you can read about it on Wikipedia, if you’re interested. But at the time of this blog post, the trademark name “Tammy” for these dolls was abandoned and has remained “dead” (according to the US Trademark database) since 2004.

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…

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 within the quote.