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DIY Halloween Skirts for Barbie: Spooky Sewing Series Part 4 #Halloween2025 #HalloweenParty

An Asian Made to Move Barbie models handmade Halloween doll clothes including a bright orange short-sleeved cotton shirt and a floor length Halloween-themed maxi skirt that has elastic at the waist and is decorated with bats, jack-o-lanterns, spider webs, owls, and other Halloween-themed images. This doll's clothes is part of the "Spooky Sewing" feature at Chelly Wood dot com, where the patterns for making this outfit are free.
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Today’s “Spooky Halloween Skirt” and cotton shirt project is actually one I’ve designed for Barbie and the Queens of Africa in previous blog posts, but today’s post shows this particular shirt and skirt together for the first time.

When I sewed my shirt, I actually took a shirt with a more rounded hem and switched the bottom of it so it was slightly cropped. That’s called an alteration. I happen to teach a class called “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” on the C&T Publishing website, so if you’d like to learn that skill, you can find out more at the bottom of today’s blog post.

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The same Asian doll, with her black hair pulled back in a pony tail, is shown from three angles. On the left, we see the doll in profile, modeling her handmade orange cotton shirt and Halloween-themed long skirt. In the center, we see her modeling the same outfit from the front, and on the right, we see the same doll modeling the same Halloween-themed clothing, but on the right, the doll is turned at a slight angle toward the center of the frame.
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.

Today’s Halloween Barbie doll clothes sewing project is, as you might have guessed, the fourth project in my “Spooky Sewing” series, and I plan to share one more.

Yesterday I posted on my YouTube channel a stop-motion video, showing this doll and the other four, doing a little dance number in these lovely Halloween outfits! And if you’d like to buy the whole set of 5 outfits, they are currently for sale in my Etsy store.

Next week I’ll be giving you the pattern and tutorial for the black skirt with white lace trim, which had a wonderful swirl to it in my stop motion video!

Five dolls stand at the ready, to begin their dance moves, on a tiny stage. These are Made-to-Move Barbie fashion dolls, and each one wears a different Halloween themed handmade outfit. On the left, an Asian MTM Barbie models a handmade orange cotton raglan sleeved top tucked into her floor-length Halloween-printed maxi skirt with its full folds of fabric. In front of her and slightly to the right is a blond, dark-complexion MTM Barbie, modeling a pencil skirt with lace trim, in an above-the-knee length. Her skirt is made of night-sky-black cotton fabric printed with silver clouds. Her sleeveless blouse is made of the same material. Front and center is a redheaded freckle-faced Petite Made-to-move Barbie. she wears a mottled orange short-sleeved shirt with front darts over a miniskirt made of black cotton printed with little candy corns. Under the miniskirt is a tulle petticoat and the doll also wears black and white striped tights and a pair of lace-up boots. To her right is a black Made-to-Move Barbie with glistening brown hair tied up in a pony tail. Her brown hair shimmers with hints of gold. She models an off-white blouse with a scoop neck and three-quarter length sleeves over a flouncy black full skirt that's printed with tiny Halloween candies, and her skirt is trimmed in off-white or ivory colored lace. She wears bright orange high heel shoes. Behind her and slightly to her right is a platinum blond, tall Made-to-Move Barbie who wears a strappy cropped tank top over a three-tier skirt made of black cotton fabric decorated with large jack-o-lanterns and ghosts. The skirt comes to just below her knee, and she wears jet black witchy-style boots with high heels and pointy toes. All of these dolls are posed in exactly the same way, with their feet apart, the left arms hidden behind their hips, and their right hands resting on their other hips. They look directly into the camera with a slight smile, waiting for the music to begin, so they can do their stop motion dance routine.
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.

To make today’s Halloween-themed doll clothes, you will likely need one or more of the following items:

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

Asian Made-to-Move Barbie stands in a cemetery at night, with a multicolored sky behind her. Jack-o-lanterns peer around eerily with glistening eyes, but she seems to be unmoved by the spooky Halloween setting as she holds up her skirts to keep them from getting wet in the silhouetted grass with silhouettes of trees on either side of her. Even in this dim light, she brightens up the evening with her Halloween-themed long skirt and orange raglan-sleeved shirt.
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.

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:

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

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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 a link to my bio page on their site, where you can learn more about me and the classes I teach online.

This image shows four rows of artist's renderings of doll clothing items. The top row shows four different styles of pants. The second row shows four different styles of shirts. The third row shows four different styles of skirts. The fourth row shows four different styles of dresses, with skirts in long, short, and mid-length styles. The text reads at the top, "Classes in Doll Clothing Design" followed by this paragraph: "Have you ever wished you could create patterns of your own? Click on the links to Chelly's online courses below, to learn more about her paid courses in doll clothing pattern design techniques."

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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.

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.

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…

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