Learning to Sew With Simplicity 1242 (AKA Simplicity 6208) Vintage Barbie Doll Clothes Sewing Patterns #CollectivelyCreate #HomeSewing

Simplicity 1242 (reproduction) doll clothes pattern for Barbie and other fashion dolls. View A shows a slender evening gown with lace overlay; View B shows a short-sleeved black and white gingham check dress with a dropped waist and embellished with black ribbons and bows; View C shows an A-line sleeveless dress with an empire waist in royal blue solid fabric; View D shows a woman's business suit with a 3/4 length sleeve for the jacket and a pencil skirt (both in black solid fabric) and a simple white top beneath the suit; View E shows a red double-breasted below-the-knee-length winter coat with three-quarter length sleeves and an animal print collar (or possibly an animal print scarf); View F shows a bright green solid fabric one-piece pants suit with flared legs and a sleeveless bodice, tied at the waist with a light blue tie belt; View G shows a furry hooded winter coat worn over red, white, and blue plaid trousers. It should be noted that before it was re-issued, this same pattern used to be called Simplicity 6208. — 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.

As my regular followers know, there’s now a whole library of vintage and modern doll clothes sewing patterns on my website, and with each of these patterns, I offer my take on what I’ve learned from the patterns, what alterations may work best for these patterns, and my overall review of the pattern, as I sew with it.

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The image shows the line drawings of each item of clothing that one can sew, using Simplicity 1242 (also known at an earlier publication date as Simplicity 6208) for Barbie dolls. Important features include a line drawing of a hooded coat, a pants suit, and an arrow points from a woman's handmade yellow jacket for Curvy Barbie Ida B. Wells to the View D jacket pattern from this Simplicity Barbie doll clothes pattern, number 1242. — 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.

Please be advised that these are not free patterns. They’re just commercial patterns that I happen to own, and now I’m sharing the lessons I’ve learned when sewing with them.

So if you want to read my reviews of Simplicity 1242 (also known as Simplicity 6208), and if you’d like to learn right along with me as I sew using Simplicity 1242, just click on whatever links below sound appealing to you. I’ll be adding more bullets to this section, as I work with this pattern in the future.

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