Today’s blog post is part of a series of posts which look at McCall’s 2970 miniature fashion doll wardrobe pattern. This series is designed to help readers decide which dolls do (and which dolls don’t) fit in this very tiny sewing pattern. To read my previous posts on this topic, please click the link right here.
The McCall’s 2970 pattern is designed to fit vintage Dawn dolls, a six inch fashion doll that was popular in the 1970’s. Today I’ll show you how the pattern fit my American Girl 6 inch doll and my 8 inch Vogue Ginny dolls, two dolls for which there are very few doll clothes sewing patterns available.
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Before we look at this commercially made sewing pattern on my AG 6 inch doll and my Vogue Ginny, let me point out that I offer plenty of free printable PDF sewing patterns for both of those dolls, right here on ChellyWood.com.
Please click here if you’d like to go to the gallery of free sewing patterns for Vogue Ginny (8 inches tall).
Click here to visit the page of patterns I’ve designed for the 6 inch American Girl dolls.
With that said, let’s talk about who fits in the McCall’s 2970 doll clothes pattern.
As you can see in the image below, I’ve tried the View B dress from this pattern on (left to right) a six inch American Girl mini doll, my eight inch tall Vogue Ginny doll, and the six inch Elsa doll from the Disney Princess collection.
But how did the dress fit each doll?
Well, let’s start with my mini American Girl.
I have to say, this View B dress looks pretty darned good on my mini Kit Kittredge! Wouldn’t you agree?
The length of the sleeve is a tad shorter than intended by the dress’s designer, but this is a good starting point, if someone wanted to make alterations to this dress so that it fits the 6 inch AG dolls. In fact, when I went to get the link to my 6 inch American Girl doll clothes gallery, I thought, “My gosh, I’ve only designed three outfits for her? She needs more!
So I may add to my to-do list, “design patterns for 6 inch AG dolls.” And when I do that, I may very well simply make alterations to the outfits in my McCall’s 2970 pattern because, well, this is a close fit.
In all honesty, thought, the back closure (see center and far right images above) was very snug. If I were to use the McCall’s 2970 pattern again without making alterations, I’d definitely use jersey fabric to make sure it’s easy for kids to close the bodice at the back.
Now, moving on to Vogue Ginny…
Well yeah, from the front it looks promising, but nope. The View B dress from the McCall’s 2970 pattern definitely does not fit.
And unlike the 6 inch American Girl dolls, I don’t think any amount of stretch to a fabric would make this dress fit Ginny.
What might work? Alterations. That’s it. You’d have to make pretty significant alterations to this dress to get it to fit Vogue Ginny properly.
And now, last but not least, let’s look at the little six inch Elsa doll from the Frozen movie.
The sleeves are a wee bit too short for Elsa, but that’s nothing that a little extra length to the lace trim wouldn’t fix.
The real elephant in the room, though, is the dress’s hem length. As you can see in the photo above, this skirt is about two centimeters too long.
As far as alterations go, though, adjusting a hem length is probably the easiest alteration you can make! So that’s good news.
I’m curious to try some of the other doll clothes from the McCall’s 2970 pattern on Elsa in the future. I wonder if she can wear the pants too? But that will have to wait for another day.
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