Make a Halloween Outfit for your Doll this Fall.

Use easy sewing patterns from Oh Sew Kat! to make your doll a Halloween outfit.

It’s time for pumpkins and candy corn and trick or treat parties! Your dolls can join in the fun with a cute outfit or dress made with fun Halloween themed fabrics. Whether you like spooky eyeballs, cute ghosts, scary spiders, or arched back cats, your local fabric stores are full of fun fabric surprises to sew to get your in the Halloween mood.

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Make your 18 inch doll a Halloween dress with the School Dance Sewing Pattern

With three ways to change up the dress front, the School Dance Dress gives your fabric room to shine. Add a bow or belt. With long sleeves and a nice A-line skirt, your doll will be ready for whatever treats come her way. Available in 3 doll sizes here….see more School Dance Dress ideas HERE. Don’t forget to check for multi size bundles to save a few dollars when your purchase more than one size pattern.

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Make a Party Time Peasant Dress with fun Halloween print fabric.

The Party Time Peasant Dress is a quick and easy project. With easy elastic for the neckline and a full gathered skirt it’s a perfect pattern to showcase some fun Halloween prints, like these from Doodlebug Designs. Find the pattern in 5 doll sizes HERE.

Make a Boardwalk Boutique top into a Pumpkin Jumper

For a quick project, you can’t beat the super popular Boardwalk Boutique. Available sized for 5 different dolls, use the long length cutting line and add a ruffle for a cute, quick, halter top jumper. Kelly is wearing it here with a black turtleneck made with the Jumping Jack pattern. Find both patterns on Etsy. See THIS POST to use the Boardwalk Boutique for a fun elf, santa or gingerbread outfit!

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Make a cute School Bell Blouse in Halloween fabric for Wellie Wishers and Glitter Girls.

Michele made these adorable Halloween tops for her 14.5 inch girls when she helped me test the School Bell Blouse pattern. See more ideas for this pattern HERE. It’s available in 3 doll sizes. The black skirts are made with the very easy Sixth Grade Skirt pattern to complete the look.

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Let your dolls play along with the season in cute outfits you make with fun, Halloween themed cotton fabric. You can’t go wrong with any of the patterns you choose. Share your work on my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ohsewkat. Happy sewing!!!

See more ideas for Halloween here and here.

A Clear Vision for 2020: PowerSheets Goal Planning System

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I have a pretty busy life. In addition to all the sewing, photographing, writing, editing, marketing, and updating I do for Oh Sew Kat! with my doll clothes patterns and tutorials, I also work a full time, 40 hour a week job. I enjoy time with my family (we love to watch the Washington Nationals this year!), and work out at the gym 5-6 times a week. So how do I do it? Well, I use my PowerSheets of course. My younger sister introduced me to this goal setting system and I immediately fell in love with everything about it.

PowerSheets 2020 will be available October 16th, 2019 at 10 EST.

This will be the 3rd year I have used the PowerSheets. Each year, the book itself is a little better than the last, but always with the same cheery colors, gorgeous gold accents, and positive messages. No matter where you are, you can dig in and cultivate the life you want most!

The PowerSheets is NOT a calendar or day planner. It’s a goal setting system to help you grow. You spend some time in December (or whenever you start) with some reflection and some thinking about what matters most to you in your life and what you want your year to look like. There are pages in the book to guide you through this. It doesn’t matter if you are a student or retired, a stay at home mom, or a career woman. We all have things we want to do each year- some big and some small. Each month and season, you reevaluate at those goals, and decide what you will do over the next month, week, and each day. This monthly tending list is a growing document and changes with the seasons, but is always tied back to your overall goals! I tear mine out and keep it in my day planner so I see it each day. Add powerful quotes and fun stickers!

See the entire 2020 Powersheets Collection here

So how exactly does this help me? When I get home from a long day at work, my tending list reminds me of the things I wanted to accomplish because they are what matter the most that month. I already have an idea of the things I want to do each day, week, and all month long. It gives me a reminder and a starting point so I can not only maximize my business tasks in my limited time, but also helps me take time to schedule lunches with friends, dinners with neighbors, and time as a family.

Click here to see the 2020 PowerSheets Planner

2020 PowerSheets Orders open at 10am EST on 16 October. 

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There are also lots of other beautiful products- journals, sticker books, gift cards, wrapping paper, washi tape and more. I can tell you the quality of every single items is top notch! Prices range from $5 for stickers and bookmarks to everything at once for $221. I hope you’ll take a look and see if there’s something here that inspires you and the future you too! It’s time to look to the future- and start 2020 with a clear vision to our best self!!

 

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Use the PowerSheets from Cultivate What Matters to help you determine what you want to grow and cultivate month after month for 2020. I use mine every week to keep my business growing and changing to bring you more ideas, patterns, crafts, and tutorials. Keep your vision 2020!

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Fold Over Elastic Tutorial: Super Easy Headband / Belt for 18 inch and other sized Dolls

Try this 10 minute easy craft for your dolls!

Make a quick headband or belt accessory for your 18″ Doll with this easy tutorial.

Have you used fold over elastic before? Don’t you just love it? With so many colors and designs to choose from, it’s a go to trim for doll clothes, especially tees, panties, and swimsuits. The edges don’t ravel, and when folded in half along its center line, it makes a nice border trim for your project that is so easy to use. It’s featured in my Simple Sweet Tee pattern as an easy way to handle knit fabric edges for beginners.

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Make a quick and easy doll headband and belt with fold over elastic.

Fold over elastic, available in colors and patterns, is the perfect, easy to use trim for doll clothes. Try it on hems and necklines, as belts, headbands, and straps! I use fold over elastic on a lot of different types of doll outfits as you can see below. I use it often as straps for the Easy Up Jumper or the Backyard Bibs to speed up my cutting and sewing and still offer a nice part of the design element.

The gray striped straps on this (below) bunny jumper is actually fold over elastic, (not folded) and because the Easy UP! Jumper straps are elastic anyways, using FOE is a great shortcut without sacrificing style! Click HERE to see more photos of this dress and to find a direct link to purchase the pattern.

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Make an 18 inch doll headband in less than 10 minutes:

The greatest use I’ve found for FOE (Fold over elastic) is a quick and easy headband for your doll. The best news is that it also fits as a belt, so it’s a perfect two for one project that will take 10 minutes or less! Because it’s elastic, it’s easy to put on and take off the doll, yet still stays snugly to the doll’s head and waist. Use different widths, colors, and patterns, and add flowers, buckles, or fun buttons. You will find fold over elastic is also very inexpensive!

Doll Headband (Belt) Tutorial:

1. Choose your FOE (fold over elastic)- find it in your local craft store, on etsy, or even Amazon like this assortment: AD: FOE ON AMAZON. I like 5/8th inch wide, which is a pretty easy to find size.
2. Cut your elastic to 10 1/2 inches for an 18 inch doll or for Bitty Baby. For Wellie Wishers and Glitter Girls use 8 inches. For other size dolls, measure the size of their heads, and also their waist. Use the average of the two measurements, because the elastic will stretch. Try it before you sew if you are unsure.
3. If you want to add any sort of a slide buckle, put that on now, ensuring the front of the buckle and the front of the elastic are facing the same direction.
4. Over lap your elastic ends by 1/2 inch, being sure the elastic is not twisted. Stitch over the lapped edges, by forming a square, then sew an X in the middle. This will keep it nice and secure.
5. Leave it plain or decorate your elastic with a flower or button and put it on your doll as a headband or a belt! Make them in every color!

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Easy doll accessories to make- Headband and Belt Elastic Craft

The elastic I used for Nicki’s belt below, already had the sparkly stones on it, so it’s not technically fold over elastic, but it’s about the same width and certainly works the same way. Can’t find any that sparkle? Use some strong glue and add your own sparkle! See the tutorial to make this Playtime Peasant dress HERE.

Follow these simple steps to make your own Fold Over Elastic headbands and belts for all of your dolls. You will love having a small basket of these easy accessories ready to go as you mix and match new doll outfits.

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Add a belt to the simple SUNSHINE Dress for a whole new outfit.

The Simple Sweet Tee pattern was designed around using fold over elastic to create a pretty contrast trimmed edge on the neckline, sleeves, and hem, but it also makes sewing knits a little easier for beginners to learn. Find the pattern HERE.

Find more tutorials for your dolls HERE and be sure to visit the Inspiration Gallery to see ideas for the entire line of Oh Sew Kat! line of PDF sewing patterns.

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Tester Tuesday: More School Bell Blouses for 14.5 inch Dolls

The School Bell Blouse PDF sewing pattern is a long sleeved top with two options to make for your 14.5 inch dolls. With Oh Sew Kat! patterns, you can download today and stitch one up in a few hours! Easy and fun, this pattern will be a favorite for you to sew and for your girls’ dolls to wear. Find the pattern in 3 sizes here in my Etsy Shop. Every Oh Sew Kat! sewing pattern is designed with the beginner in mind with simple construction and a step by step photo tutorial.

Make a long sleeved top for your 14.5 inch dolls with the School Bell Blouse pattern.

This pdf sewing pattern will fit Glitter Girls, Wellie Wishers and similar 14 1/2 inch dolls. Enjoy these samples made by the Oh Sew Kat! test team!

Fresh for Fall- The School Bell Blouse Sewing Pattern for Dolls

Shirley made this travel themed School Bell Blouse. The outfit and photos are just so inspirational! Shirley has such an eye for fabric and color. You can find her shop on Etsy under DollClothesbyShirley.

The collage top looks so sweet with a pair of Playground Pants. You can find that pattern HERE and see more ideas for these cute pocket pants here and here.

Juliette made this fun School Bell Blouse and added a bright red, Sixth Grade Skirt. See more ideas with the School Bell Blouse pattern here and here.

Make cute doll clothes for your 14.5 inch dolls with easy sewing patterns from Oh Sew Kat!

Add a pretty lace placket to the front of your School Bell Blouse.

Pam’s doll, Camille, is seeing starts in her peplum top made with the School Bell Blouse pattern. Pam added bit of lace with a placket as seen in THIS TUTORIAL. You can purchase doll clothes from Pam’s shop on Etsy as AmyViolets.

Visit the School Bell Blouse Inspiration Gallery to see more ways to sew this fun, new pattern!

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New Pattern for 15 inch Baby Dolls: The Spring Shine Dress and Top

The Spring Shine Dress and Top (with bloomers) is now available sized for 15 inch baby dolls like Bitty Baby® and Bitty Twins®. Make your baby doll a pretty dress or top with flutter sleeves and a fake (easy!) button placket. Add a pair of matching bloomers!

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Baby Doll Clothes Pattern: Spring Shine Dress by Oh Sew Kat!

You can add lace and trim to the easy faux button placket. Make the Spring Shine Dress or make it into a top for your Bitty Twins dolls too!

Try this Baby Doll Dress Sewing Pattern with included Bloomers

Find this pattern, as well as other patterns for 15 inch baby dolls, in my ETSY SHOP. The Spring Shine dress is also available in other popular doll sizes. See more ideas of this dress in the Inspiration Gallery and in this post and this one.

Spring Shine Dress Sewing Pattern for 15 inch Dolls

Spring Shine Dress Sewing Pattern for 18 inch Dolls

Spring Shine Dress Sewing Pattern for 14.5 inch Dolls

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Make baby doll clothes with easy patterns like the Spring Shine Dress

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Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice- Backyard Bibs Sewing Pattern for Dolls

The Backyard Bibs PDF sewing pattern from Oh Sew Kat! is a simple, quick pattern that works all year round. Make your bibs for spring and summer with tees and peasant tops underneath- make them for fall with long sleeves and turtlenecks.

Make a fall overalls style outfit for 18 inch dolls- Backyard Bibs

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This swirling leaves fabric is full of vibrant fall color. The Playtime Peasant Top has a little texture to it that might not show up in the photos. See even more ideas for the Peasant Top in the Inspiration Gallery.

Emily’s auburn hair compliments the outfit perfectly. Add a pair of tall boots to complete the look. Find the Backyard Bibs pattern for 18 inch dolls HERE. It’s also available in four other doll sizes.

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Click here to purchase the Backyard Bibs pattern for Dolls

With four variations, the Backyard Bibs sewing pattern is perfect for fall outfits.

This pumpkin jumper is made with the A Line skirt variation of the Backyard Bibs pattern. Blaire it wearing it with a ribbed knit Jumping Jack turtleneck shirt and black boots. She’s ready for the fall fair! See more fall outfit ideas HERE and HERE.

This sewing pattern for dolls is so simple, you can make it up in just one afternoon. With four variations (two skirts, as shown here, plus shorts and capris), it will look different each time you sew. Try a ruffled skirt on your bibs like in THIS POST.

Make your 18 inch doll a fashion outfit this fall.

The Backyard Bibs pattern is available for 18 inch dolls, 16 inch animators, 16 inch a Girl for All time dolls, 15 inch baby dolls and 14.5 inch dolls in my SHOP. Download and sew today!

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Step it Up Series: Make a Gabby Gabby Inspired Doll Dress

Have you seen Toy Story 4 yet? There is a new doll character in the movie, Gabby Gabby, and she has red hair and wears a yellow polka dot dress. Like a few other inspired seamstresses on the net, I wanted to try to make a Gabby Gabby inspired dress for 18 inch dolls. Here are the ones I came up with. How did I do?

Make a Gabby Gabby doll dress for 18 inch dolls

Use OSK sewing patterns to make a Gabby Gabby look alike dress for your doll

In the photos below, Blaire and Maryellen are both wearing the same dress. I used the Sugar n Spice Dress– the pinafore cutting lines to make the dress. I drew out a collar pieces, and attached it before I sewed the bodice pieces together at the neckline. Add a white waistband and attach a button placket and it looks pretty close to the original.

You could also use the Spring Shine dress pattern as well, making the same alterations. Originally I planned to put a white “slip” trimmed with lace underneath, but in the end, I just added the lace right to the hem. (For those of you too young to remember, girls used to wear a fluffy skirt underneath their dresses, usually made of white with lace trim, to make their dresses stick out in a pretty way.)

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Use the Sugar n Spice or the Spring Shine Dress sewing pattern to make a Gabby Gabby polka dot dress.

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Willa’s dress is not quite as true to the original. I used the Spring Shine dress pattern, adding white lace and white flutter sleeves for more of a “similar but different” vibe to Gabby Gabby’s dress. Willa is just as happy!!

Find these two PDF sewing patterns, and many more, in my ETSY SHOP. Be sure to check out the Multi Size bundles page to save a few dollars too. Visit the Inspiration Gallery to see more doll clothes ideas.

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50s Fashions to Sew for your American Girl Doll, Maryellen Larkin

Make 50s style Fashions and Outfits for your 18 inch Doll.

Maryellen Larkin and her family are glad WWII is over and everyone is hopeful about the future in 1954. She loves pretending to be a 50s movie star and playing the jukebox at the diner with family and friends. Use Oh Sew Kat! patterns to stitch up 50s style outfits for your Maryellen doll and her friends.

Ad: Want to learn more about Maryellen’s adventures? Find Maryellen’s stories by Valerie Tripp HERE and at the American Girl stores.

Use Oh Sew Kat! patterns to sew 50s outfits for your Maryellen Larkin Doll.

Do you want to make Maryellen a new outfit?  Try these twists on patterns from Oh Sew Kat! Find all of these patterns in my Etsy Shop:  www.etsy.com/shop/ohsewkat.

1.  Sunshine Dress &  Sugar n Spice Bundle
2.  Bloomer Buddies
3.  Boardwalk Boutique with Bloomer Buddies Shortie Bloomers
4.  Party Time Peasant Dress

VISIT THE OH SEW KAT! HISTORICAL FASHIONS GALLERY TO SEE MORE IDEAS.

Free 50’s headscarf pattern for dolls

Click HERE for a tutorial to make a cute fifties style headscarf for your doll!

Make 50s inspired doll clothes with Oh Sew Kat! PDF sewing patterns.

Find more ideas to sew for Maryellen HERE and HERE.

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My Favorite Doll Clothes Sewing Patterns for Fall

What are the best dressed dolls wearing this fall? What are the hottest sellers at local craft fairs? What outfits are your girls hoping to find under the tree this year? Read on for Kat’s favorite four patterns to sew this fall for your dolls.

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Best Doll Clothes Sewing Pattern for Fall: School Dance Dress

The School Dance Dress has lots of options and looks great using the same or contrasting fabric. Shown here in Vera Bradley fabric, the princess seams (one of three options for the front of the dress) give the dress a soft flair. Find the pattern HERE and see more ways to sew this basic, long sleeved dress HERE.

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Best Doll Clothes Sewing Pattern for Fall: School Bell Blouse

With a pretty pleat at the neck and pleats along the sleeves,this boho styled blouse is perfect for the cool, crisp days of fall. The School Bell Blouse can be made with a soft flair at the waist, or add a cute peplum skirt for a completely different look. Find the pattern HERE in three sizes and see the Inspiration Gallery HERE. Use this pattern hack and this one to make a cute dress with the same pattern!

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Best Doll Clothes Sewing Pattern for Fall: Playground Pants

I love the Playground Pants pattern. With a loose fit, fun side pockets, and an option for patchwork, they make a cute addition to your doll’s wardrobe for fall. Pair them with a School Bell Blouse or a Jumping Jack turtleneck shirt. These pants are also great for boy doll clothes! Find the pattern HERE and visit THIS LINK to see the Inspiration Gallery for this pattern.

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Photo Credit: Doll Clothes by Shirley.

Best Doll Clothes Sewing Pattern for Fall: Easy Up! Jumper

The Easy Up! Jumper pattern got its name from the ease of dressing the doll by simply pulling the jumper up over her feet. It’s a double bonus because the pattern is super easy to make too! Here, Maryellen’s jumper has a Jumping Jack Turtleneck underneath- you can also make the jumper reversible! This dress has hounds tooth on one side and pumpkins on the other! The straps can also be made with Fold Over Elastic to be even “easier”. Find the pattern HERE and check the Inspiration Gallery HERE.

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Make your doll a fun new outfit for fall with these favorite sewing patterns from Oh Sew Kat!

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Tester Tuesday: School Bell Blouse for 14.5 inch Wellie Wishers Doll Clothes

It’s Tester Tuesday!! The School Bell Blouse is the perfect top to move from summer into fall and beyond into cooler weather too. This PDF sewing pattern has a pretty bell sleeve with two front options. You can find the School Bell blouse for 18 inch Dolls HERE.

The School Bell Blouse Sewing Pattern is now available for 14 and 14.5 inch dolls.

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The School Bell Blouse, available in a 3rd size for 14.5 inch Wellie Wishers and Glitter Girls dolls, will also fit Hearts for Hearts dolls too! Find this cute “print at home” sewing pattern HERE.

The School Bell Blouse is perfect for Halloween Themed Doll Clothes

Michele had a ball making her test samples of the School Bell Blouse. These outfits are perfect for Camille and Willa to wear to their school Halloween party. Both tops are made with View B, the plain top with a peplum skirt. Accent your tops with ribbon belts and fancy buttons! The top looks great with a simple, black Sixth Grade Skirt. You can also find that pattern in my shop.

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The Oh Sew Kat! School Bell Blouse pattern fits 14 inch Glitter Girls Dolls Too

The Glitter Girls dolls are a bit newer on the doll scene. They are made by Our Generation and can be found at Target and on Amazon. They are the exact same size as the Wellie Wishers dolls made by American Girl. You have lots of hair and eye choices and the price is right around $20 US which make them an adorable (and cheaper) friend option for Wellie Wishers Dolls. Read more about my experience with them HERE and HERE. Find the Glitter Girls for sale at my affiliate link HERE.

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Jenny made her daughter’s Glitter Girl doll this hot pink School Bell Blouse. She also used the SandBox Shorts pattern and added a fun bow accent. Jenny used view A- the top with the neckline pleat and a bit of a flared waistline.

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