This week’s project is what I’ve dubbed my “Sunflower Harvest” dress. It’s designed for most 11.5 inch fashion dolls, including but not limited to Mattel’s Barbie, Queens of Africa, the old Spin Master Liv dolls from the 1990’s, the 10 or 11-inch Disney Princess dolls, and many similar-sized fashion dolls. After making this dress, I … Continue reading
This week on ChellyWood.com, we’ve been making this golden “harvest” apron with pockets. On Monday we saw a preview of the apron. Yesterday I gave you the free printable pattern for making the apron. Today you get to see the free tutorial video, showing how to make the apron. For your convenience, here’s the free … Continue reading
This is the pattern for the “harvest apron” project that I showed in yesterday’s preview photos. It’s the same pattern that we used to make the reversible hairdresser’s apron (published here on ChellyWood.com in July of 2017). However in the latest project, I’ll be using this pattern as a one-sided apron–almost more of a pinafore–over … Continue reading
Isn’t that an adorable harvest scene? This “harvest dress and pinafore” was part of a little girl’s birthday gift that I made. The pinafore is actually a re-design of the reversible hairdresser’s apron pattern that I made and posted back in 2016. (Click here for a link to that project.) This week I’m going to … Continue reading
I recently received a question on my “Submit a question” page about which outfits (from my Gallery Page) would fit Pregnant Barbie. I suggested this universal dress pattern, which fits nearly every fashion doll I’ve ever tried it on. The short version of the dress can also double as a ruffle-edged top, which is perfect … Continue reading
Today’s tutorial shows you how to make a summer dress, using the free, printable sewing pattern I posted yesterday, but just in case you missed that pattern, here it is again: Free printable sewing pattern for a Barbie summer dress As the tutorial video explains, this pattern will fit the older Barbies (which have a … Continue reading
If you’d like to make this outfit to fit Mattel’s MTM Barbie dolls or regular Barbie dolls, using my free, printable sewing patterns and tutorials, here’s everything you’ll need to make what you see in the image above: Free printable sewing pattern for the whole outfit Tutorial to help you sew the pants Tutorial to help … Continue reading
With the US Independence Day celebrations only one week away, I thought it would be a good idea to re-post my US flag colorblock dress project. If you scroll down, you’ll find links to the free sewing pattern above, plus the scarf pattern and tutorial videos showing you how to make both the dress and … Continue reading
If you’d like to make this outfit to fit Mattel’s Curvy Barbie and/or Made-to-Move Curvy Barbies, using my free, printable sewing patterns and tutorials, here’s everything you’ll need to make what you see in the images above and below: Free printable sewing pattern for the whole outfit Tutorial to help you sew the pants Tutorial … Continue reading
Here we have the tutorial video to accompany the free printable sewing pattern I posted yesterday. If you’ve been following along, you’ll remember that this free, printable sewing pattern fits Mattel’s Curvy Barbie, MTM Barbie, Made-to-Move Curvy Barbie, DC Comics’ Superhero Girls dolls, and vintage Tammy dolls from Ideal. You’ll see each of these dolls featured in today’s video. If you missed your … Continue reading
As I said in yesterday’s post, this free, printable sewing pattern fits Mattel’s Curvy Barbie, MTM Barbie, Made-to-Move Curvy Barbie, DC Comics’ Superhero Girls dolls, and vintage Tammy dolls from Ideal. Can you believe I’ve designed something to fit all of those different fashion dolls?! For a more detailed version of this pattern, click here to copy/paste or download. Now if you’re … Continue reading
Today’s video tutorial shows you how to make the elastic-waist pants we saw in Monday’s post. For your convenience, I’ve re-posted the free, printable sewing pattern right here: Free pattern for 11.5-inch fashion doll pants These are probably the most versatile pants I’ve designed for fashion dolls so far. In short, this free printable … Continue reading
As I said in yesterday’s post, this free, printable sewing pattern fits Mattel’s Curvy Barbie, MTM Barbie, Made-to-Move Curvy Barbie, DC Comics’ Superhero Girls dolls, and vintage Tammy dolls from Ideal. Wow! That’s a lot of different dolls that can fit in this free pattern! For a more detailed version of this pattern, click here to copy/paste or download. Now if you’re … Continue reading
Looking just as elegant as one would expect, my MTM Barbie models this week’s project in the image above. We’ll be sewing a pair of elastic waist pants. This week’s free pattern is super versatile, though. As you see in the image below, this pants pattern also fits Mattel’s Curvy Barbie: As you can see, … Continue reading
