A cloud-and-rainbow frame surrounds a cell phone with a photo of a vintage Barbie doll wearing the "Rainbow Wraps" classic vintage doll clothes outfit. The text reads "Do a Pick: Prom Dress Shopping." If you click on this image in the gallery, it will take you to the "Do a Pick" game where you get to choose which doll you want to take shopping, while your older sister searches for a prom dress, and what your doll will wear when playing Goldie in this hypothetical situation presented in this YouTube shorts #DoAPick mini video.

Let’s Do a Pick — Shopping for a prom dress #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

When I was a kid, whenever it was playtime with dolls, we would lay out all our dolls and their clothing items. Then we would “do a pick.” That’s where you take turns picking which doll or dolls you’ll play with and which outfits or accessories you’ll get to play with. Your playtime companion would take a turn picking her dolls, clothes, and accessories too. … Continue reading Let’s Do a Pick — Shopping for a prom dress #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

This thumbnail shows a cloud-shaped 1970's style rainbow in the colors yellow, blue, green, and purple, superimposed on the usual purple cotton fabric background frame that Chelly Wood dot com often uses for its thumbnails. This frame surrounds a cell phone with a photo of a vintage "Francie" Barbie doll wearing the "Bloom Zoom" classic vintage doll clothes outfit. The text reads "Do a Pick: Outdoor Music Festival." If you click on this image in the gallery, it will take you to the "Do a Pick" game where you get to choose which super-cool outfit you want your Barbie (or in this case Francie) doll to wear when playing at the outdoor music festival your parents will attend in the hypothetical situation presented in this YouTube shorts #DoAPick mini video.

Let’s Do a Pick at an Outdoor Music Festival #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

When I was a kid, whenever it was playtime with dolls, we would lay out all our dolls and their clothing items. Then we would “do a pick.” That’s where you take turns picking which doll or dolls you’ll play with and which outfits or accessories you’ll get to play with. Your playtime companion would take a turn picking her dolls, clothes, and accessories too. … Continue reading Let’s Do a Pick at an Outdoor Music Festival #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

This thumbnail shows a cloud-shaped 1970's style rainbow in the colors yellow, blue, green, and purple, superimposed on the usual purple cotton fabric background frame that Chelly Wood dot com often uses for its thumbnails. This frame surrounds a cell phone with a photo of a vintage "Francie" Barbie doll wearing the "Corduroy Cape" classic vintage doll clothes outfit. The text reads "Do a Pick" Rainy Day Cover Ups! If you click on this image in the gallery, it will take you to the "Do a Pick" game where you get to choose which rainy day cover up you want your Barbie (or in this case Francie) doll to wear when playing on a covered porch.

Let’s Do a Pick — on a rainy day, under a covered porch with Francie #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

  Today’s “Do a Pick” game features the following: Corduroy Cape Long on Leather Pony Coat My #DoApick shorts on My YouTube Channel  let you choose from retro dolls and their clothing items and/or accessories, while imagining a fun playtime adventure from a bygone era. Join the fun! Leave your “pick” in the comments! At the end of today’s Do-a-Pick #Shorts video, I mentioned my … Continue reading Let’s Do a Pick — on a rainy day, under a covered porch with Francie #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

This thumbnail shows a cloud-shaped 1970's style rainbow in the colors yellow, blue, green, and purple, superimposed on the usual purple cotton fabric background frame that Chelly Wood dot com often uses for its thumbnails. This frame surrounds a cell phone with a photo of a vintage "Julia" Barbie doll wearing the "Leather Weather" classic vintage doll clothes outfit. The text reads "Do a Pick" winter coats! If you click on this image in the gallery, it will take you to the "Do a Pick" game where you get to choose which coat you want your Barbie (or Julia) doll to wear when playing in a snow fort.

Let’s Do a Pick — Choose your favorite winter outerwear! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

When I was a kid, whenever it was playtime with dolls, we would lay out all our dolls and their clothing items. Then we would “do a pick.” That’s where you take turns picking which doll or dolls you’ll play with and which outfits or accessories you’ll get to play with. Your playtime companion would take a turn picking her dolls, clothes, and accessories too. … Continue reading Let’s Do a Pick — Choose your favorite winter outerwear! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

This thumbnail shows a cloud-shaped 1970's style rainbow in the colors yellow, blue, green, and purple, superimposed on the usual purple cotton fabric background frame that Chelly Wood dot com often uses for its thumbnails. This frame surrounds a cell phone with a photo of a vintage Barbie wearing the Pink Fantasy vintage doll clothes outfit. The text reads "Do a Pick" wedding guest. If you click on this thumbnail in the gallery, it will take you to the "do a pick" game where you get to choose three costume options from a vintage Barbie catalog.

Let’s Do a Pick — Wedding Guest! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

Of course Valentine’s Day is next week, which means it’s wedding season! So today’s “Do a Pick” is set at a cousin’s wedding. If you’re wondering what “do a pick” is all about, take a moment to read on… When I was a kid, whenever I got together with my cousins, it was also playtime with dolls, and we (I and my favorite “doll-play” female … Continue reading Let’s Do a Pick — Wedding Guest! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

This thumbnail shows a cloud-shaped 1970's style rainbow in the colors yellow, blue, green, and purple, superimposed on the usual purple cotton fabric background frame that Chelly Wood dot com often uses for its thumbnails. This frame surrounds a cell phone with a photo of a vintage Barbie in an ice skating outfit (Skate Mates). The theme for this "Do a Pick" post is "outdoor winter fun." If you click on this thumbnail in the gallery, it will take you to the "do a pick" game where you get to choose three costume options from a vintage Barbie catalog.

Let’s Do a Pick — Outdoor Winter Fun! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

When I was a kid, whenever it was playtime with dolls, we would lay out all our dolls and their clothing items. Then we would “do a pick.” That’s where you take turns picking which doll or dolls you’ll play with and which outfits or accessories you’ll get to play with. Your playtime companion would take a turn picking her dolls, clothes, and accessories too. … Continue reading Let’s Do a Pick — Outdoor Winter Fun! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

This thumbnail shows a cloud-shaped 1970's style rainbow in the colors yellow, blue, green, and purple, superimposed on the usual purple cotton fabric background frame that Chelly Wood dot com often uses for its thumbnails. This frame surrounds a cell phone with a photo of a vintage Barbie wearing the Burr Furr vintage doll clothes outfit. The text reads "Do a Pick" winter fashion show. If you click on this thumbnail in the gallery, it will take you to the "do a pick" game where you get to choose three costume options from a vintage Barbie catalog.

Let’s Do a Pick — a winter fashion show with vintage dolls! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

When I was a kid, whenever it was playtime with dolls, we would lay out all our dolls and their clothing items. Then we would “do a pick.” That’s where you take turns picking which doll or dolls you’ll play with and which outfits or accessories you’ll get to play with. Your playtime companion would take a turn picking her dolls, clothes, and accessories too. … Continue reading Let’s Do a Pick — a winter fashion show with vintage dolls! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

This thumbnail shows a cloud-shaped 1970's style rainbow in the colors yellow, blue, green, and purple, superimposed on the usual purple cotton fabric background frame that Chelly Wood dot com often uses for its thumbnails. This frame surrounds a cell phone with a photo of Twist and Turn Casey in her shorts swimsuit. The text reads "Do a Pick" swimsuit edition. If you click on this thumbnail in the gallery, it will take you to the "do a pick" game where you get to choose three swimsuit options from a vintage Barbie catalog.

Let’s Do a Pick — Swimsuit Edition! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

  When I was a kid, whenever it was playtime with dolls, we would lay out all our dolls and their clothing items. Then we would “do a pick.” That’s where you take turns picking which doll or dolls you’ll play with and which outfits or accessories you’ll get to play with. Your playtime companion would take a turn picking her dolls, clothes, and accessories … Continue reading Let’s Do a Pick — Swimsuit Edition! #DoApick #vintageDollCollector

The image shows a white cell phone on a purple polka dot cotton background. The screen on the cell phone shows a scene from Romeo and Juliet with dolls, which is a stop motion video that doll clothes designer Chelly Wood created, together with the help of her two children. This is the thumbnail image for her first "Let's do a pick" youtube shorts video suggestions and concept announcement.

Let’s play a game with dolls in 2023! #DollCollectors #DollClothesPatterns

If you’re a regular follower on my YouTube channel, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been playing around with YouTube #Shorts lately. My cousin, who runs the ASMR channel, ASMR Tingle and Taps, gave me tips on how to grow my YouTube channel using YouTube Shorts. The Shorts videos I’ve uploaded so far have been doing extremely well, but I haven’t found my “niche” yet. If … Continue reading Let’s play a game with dolls in 2023! #DollCollectors #DollClothesPatterns

This is a blue thumbnail image of a Sunshine Family mom doll wearing an orange witch dress with a tall pointy black hat that has a wide brim. The ChellyWood.com logo appears in one corner and the words "free pattern" are at an angle over the photo of the Sunshine Family doll modeling her dress and hat.

Sew a super cute “witchy” outfit for your collectible Sunshine Family dolls w/free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #CollectibleDolls #DollClothesPatterns

Please scroll down to the second set of bullets for the free printable PDF sewing patterns and links to any additional relevant tutorial videos. My Sunshine Family “mom doll” is so adorable in my handmade “witchy” costume for Halloween! I just love this outfit on her! And of course, this outfit will fit a bunch of different dolls in this size range, as you’ll see … Continue reading Sew a super cute “witchy” outfit for your collectible Sunshine Family dolls w/free patterns @ ChellyWood.com #CollectibleDolls #DollClothesPatterns

Inside a purple and turquoise quilted frame, we see the ChellyWood.com logo and a curvy Barbie with pink hair standing next to the vintage 5731 Simplicity Tressy doll clothes pattern. The Curvy Barbie wears a white top and burgundy short skirt / miniskirt / mini-skirt.

Can a Curvy Barbie wear Tressy doll clothes? #DollClothesPatterns #SewVintage

Yes, this blog post gives you one more fashion option for your Curvy Barbie! The outfit shown above was part of an ensemble I put together for a little girl I know. As you can see in the image below, I re-created the ruffle blouse from View 2 of this Simplicity Tressy doll clothes pattern 5731. To give you a little history, I found this … Continue reading Can a Curvy Barbie wear Tressy doll clothes? #DollClothesPatterns #SewVintage

A made-to-move Barbie doll holds up a copy of Simplicity's American Character Inc. Tressy doll pattern number 5731. The Chellywood.com logo is sideways standing next to and parallel to Made to Move Barbie. The whole image is framed by a purple and blue quilt.

Can a modern Made-to-Move Barbie wear “Tressy” doll clothes? #DollClothesPatterns #SewingProjects

Please take a close look at View 2 in the Simplicity Tressy doll clothes pattern #5731, in the image above. I was very curious about this frilly little blouse that the doll is wearing in View 2, and I especially wondered if Tressy (a 12 inch doll made by American Character, Inc.) could clothing swap with my Made-to-Move Barbies. So to nobody’s surprise, I sewed … Continue reading Can a modern Made-to-Move Barbie wear “Tressy” doll clothes? #DollClothesPatterns #SewingProjects