Last week I talked in a Monday blog post about how the underpants pattern in the McCall’s 2970 doll clothes pattern fits Topper Dawn and a whole slew of other tiny fashion dolls in the 6 inch tall size range.

But there are two other dolls that can fit into this tiny little doll underpants pattern, and I’m going to share this revelation with you today!

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So who are the “mystery dolls”? Read on to find out!

According to the list on its envelope, the McCall’s 2970 doll clothes sewing pattern is made for 6 inch fashion dolls, like Topper Dawn, Pippa, and possibly the Rock Flowers dolls (although I’m skeptical about the Rock Flowers dolls, to be honest — I don’t own any Rock Flowers dolls, so I can’t try them on).

Once I finished making my little underpants, using the panties pattern in my vintage McCall’s 2970 doll clothes pattern I tried the panties on a few dolls I already owned.

Here’s what I discovered:

That’s right! Calico Critters can fit in these underpants! (For anyone who doesn’t know about the Calico Critters, they’re a hard plastic animal that’s covered in flocking, and they stand about 2 to 3 inches tall, depending on the animal.)

I made additional outfits for my Dawn doll using McCall’s 2970, but none of the other outfits would fit my Calico Critter rabbit toy. However, learning that these undies would fit him was quite an astounding discovery!

It made me think that perhaps, with a few alterations, some of the other doll clothes patterns in this McCall’s 2970 pattern could also work for Calico Critters. (If you don’t know what alterations are or how to make alterations, go down to the area before the cross stitch line where I talk about my “Doll Clothes Alterations” online course. You’ll learn more about alterations down there.)

And speaking of alterations, if you look at Figure 1 below, you’ll see that I gave myself a lot of extra room for the casing on these panties, and I was glad I did.

As Figure 2 shows, the extra wide casing really was key. That made it possible to slip a safety pin through the casing at the end of my 1/8 inch Elastic by the Yard.

You might be wondering what that long skinny thing is in Figure 3 above. You know how it used to be fashionable to place a stretchy headband with a bow on the head of a baby girl?

Well at my local GoodWill, I found a bag of these stretchy bow headband thingies for a couple bucks, and I bought them thinking these might make good underpants for dolls. Renew, reuse, recycle, right?

As you can see in the images above, I had to sort of fiddle around, trying the pattern on this way and that way, until I came up with something that works.

The baby girl headband was sewn lengthwise on top and bottom, so like it shows in Figure 5, I ended up folding the underpants pattern in half and laying it down so the front and back underpants seams would be against the sewn areas of the headband. Then all I had to do was hem the leg holes, give it a casing at the top, and string the elastic through it.

The elastic was the hardest part, but it really wasn’t too hard. It’s just that these are some very tiny panties! And do you know whose mid-section they’re covering?

Granted, they look a little like a diaper on my Monster High doll. I think that’s because a.) they’re made of cream colored fabric and b.) they have a lining.

So if I were to make them over again, I’d make a pair more like Little Mr. Calico Critter is wearing, a pair of cotton panties with a single layer and a nice, wide casing for the elastic!

It’s still nice to know that there’s an underpants pattern out there that will actually fit the Monster High dolls!

Question: Have you found any commercially made sewing patterns that will fit Monster High or Calico Critters dolls? And if so, what commercial patterns will work for them? Please share the pattern brand and pattern number in the comments below!

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