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Today’s free patterns and tutorial videos will help you make the entire ensemble worn by the Blueberry Muffin character in the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon from the 1980’s. I designed these doll clothes to fit my own Blueberry Muffin doll (made by Kenner), but the pattern is easy enough to adapt to fit most of the character dolls from the Strawberry Shortcake series.
For example, you could make this outfit using tiny strawberry-printed cotton fabric instead of the blue gingham that I’ve used, with a white pinafore instead of the blue fabric that I’ve used. That would make a perfectly acceptable outfit for your Strawberry Shortcake doll.
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The image above shows the bell-sleeved dress that goes under the pinafore. Imagine this dress made from fabrics you already have in your stash. And if you’re making an outfit for Lemon Meringue, you could use a fabric with yellow polka dots, sort of like the dress Lemon Meringue wore in the cartoon series.
I do recommend using small print fabrics, but tiny polka dots, stripes, ginghams, or solids would work for most of the Strawberry Shortcake character dolls, in addition to floral prints. So think outside the box and get creative!
If you need some jersey fabric with very tiny stripes for your doll’s tights, I recommend using the Etsy store called iSewForDoll. My husband bought me some of their striped fabric for Christmas last year, and I not only used it to make the classic Strawberry Shortcake characters’ striped tights, but my red and white striped fabric was used to make a Barbie raglan-sleeved shirt, which I wrote about in Monday’s blog post.
So I’ve put together a list of things you might need, in order to make today’s miniature doll clothes. But as I’ve said, you may already have exactly what you need at home.
Here’s my list of items you may wish to buy for today’s Strawberry Shortcake character doll clothes sewing project:
- striped small-print jersey fabric on Etsy
- cotton fabric with very tiny strawberries
- solid cotton fabrics
- small print cotton gingham fabrics
- 1/8 inch elastic on Amazon
- tiny snaps (choose 5 or 7 mm)
- chopsticks (for inverting doll clothes)
- Fiskars Stitchers mini snips (for clipping seams efficiently)
- Gutermann sewing machine thread
- rickrack trim OR
- scalloped edge trim
This list comes from my “Buyer’s Guide” page, which is easily accessed from the home page.
*Which dolls will fit in today’s outfit?
- Mattel’s Chelsea dolls (5.5 inches or 13.5 cm)
- 6-inch Enchantimals dolls (15 cm)
- vintage Strawberry Shortcake 5 inch (13 cm) dolls
- some dollhouse-sized dolls (1:12 scale)
- Disney’s Elsa mini toddler dolls
- Breyer Rider dolls (6 inches tall; 15.25 cm; 1:12 scale)*
- Dawn dolls from Topper (6 and 1/8 inch or 15.5 cm)*
Please note: dolls with an asterisk (*) will only be able to wear the dress and pinafore patterns as a shirt, since they are longer-bodied dolls.
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 5 inch doll’s clothes
- Free A4 (international) PDF sewing pattern for a 5 inch doll’s clothes
- Tutorial video showing how to make the tights is found here
- Tutorial video showing how to make the pinafore is found here
- Tutorial video showing how to make the bell-sleeved dress is found right here
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 gather fabric
- How to pull elastic through a casing
- How to use a needle threader
- How to do a basic straight stitch
- How to tie a knot using a needle and thread
- How to press seams open, using a hot iron
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To honor the trademark rights of the doll and action figure 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.
Breyer dolls and horses are products offered by Breyer, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Breyer website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Enchantimals, Kelly, Heart Family baby dolls, and Chelsea 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.
Strawberry Shortcake dolls are products offered by Shortcake IP Holdings LLC, which holds the registered trademark for them (™). Please visit the Strawberry Shortcake website to learn more about their company and its trademarked toys.
Disney’s Anna and Elsa mini toddler 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.