Pull out the green fabrics and have some fun making cute doll outfits to celebrate all things IRISH for St Patrick’s Day. Here are a few outfits to get your started, see more in the INSPIRATION GALLERY.
Make your doll outfit for St Patrick’s Day with Oh Sew Kat! sewing patterns
Poppy and Gracie are wearing the Backyard Bibs this March. Pair it with a Playtime Peasant Top underneath. (The Litty Bitty Baby size pattern includes the top too!).
Use Oh Sew Kat! patterns- they are Easy to sew!
Poppy’s Irish outfit is perfect when spring hasn’t quite arrived by March 17th. The Jumping Jack turtleneck can be worn with the Four Season Skirt (Made with my FREE pattern) looks great with high tops or boots!
You can easily create fun Valentine’s Day themed outfits and accessories for your 18 inch dolls like American Girl, as well as other popular sized dolls with these simple patterns and easy tutorials.
Sew up some love for your American Girl Dolls
Easy Valentine Craft Tutorials for Dolls
Pull out your pinks and reds to show your dolly love today! Click the photo to go right to each project/tutorial.
Use the Simple To Sew Party Time Peasant Dress for 18 inch Holiday Dresses
Use the Party Time Peasant Dress to make a cute elf inspired dress. Find the pattern HERE. All the dresses in this post were made from the same pattern!! Read more about how to make the elf dress in THIS POST.
Mix and match Holiday Fabrics for your 18 inch Doll Holiday Dresses
The Party Time Peasant Dress comes with short sleeved pattern pieces. Read THIS POST to see how to modify them to be long sleeves. If you have the Playtime Peasant Top pattern, the long sleeve from that one can work too!
Easy to Sew Holiday Dresses to Fit 18 inch Dolls like American Girl
A simple way to add a contrasting hem on the Party Time Peasant Dress is to use double fold bias tape. You can purchase it online or make your own!
Holiday Fun!! Holiday Dresses for 18 inch Dolls made by You!
I added a little extra sparkle to Mary’s dress with some metallic ribbon and bias trim. I left off the sleeve elastic for a pretty flaired look on the sleeves. Find the pattern HERE.
A fun fashion trend it to make dresses or skirts that are higher in the front, than in the back, giving a full sweeping look.
When I made my hi low skirt, I also made a matching top from the Picnic Play pattern, which gives me the versatility of two separate pieces that also look like one dress!
Start by making a pattern piece from wrapping paper or tape 4 pieces of copy together. Use the same width as the pattern skirt calls for. (This is the long edge of the skirt gathered into the waistband.) Find instructions to make a paper pattern piece in THIS POST.
Decide how short you want the front and how long you want the back based on your doll. Some measurements I use for a longer skirt are 5 inches in front and 7 inches in back, and for a shorter look, I use 4 inches in the front and 6 inches in the back.
Create a rectangle skirt pattern to match your pattern on your wrapping paper, and cut it out. Use the same width as the pattern (ie 30 inches) and the length you want the skirt in the back. I used 7 x 30 inches for my skirt, so my pattern piece (cut on the fold) will be 7 x 15 inches.
Mark the fold.
Measure down along the fold line five inches and make a mark. (Use the number for the shorter, front length of your skirt.)
The pattern piece is already 7 inches tall.
Draw a line to connect this mark to the far corner, so your edge is now five inches on the fold, and 7 inches on the other. Cut the paper along the line to create your new skirt pattern piece.
Cut out your skirt with the shorter edge on the fold. Mark the center with a pin or other marking. Attach the skirt to your waistband or bodice (starting at the center of the skirt lined up with the center of the bodice or waistband) per the pattern directions.
The adorable collection of Welliewishers™ dolls hit the toy market with a bang. They are hard plastic dolls, made by American Girl® with adorable outfits and stories (and even a TV show!) aimed at the 3-6 year old age group. We saw an upsurge of smaller patterns and even some new doll lines (Ruby Red Fashion Friends). Glitter Girls are exactly the same size, but offer a cheaper alternative and are available on Target and AD: Amazon.
Oh Sew Kat! offers 31 PDF sewing patterns and value bundles that are perfect for your 14-15 inch dolls. Enjoy this easy reference post to see all of them at once! Click HERE to go right to the shop.
Sewing Patterns to Fit 14-15 inch Dolls like Welliewishers™
Click on the photo to go right to the pattern. Find lots of ideas for each pattern in the Inspiration Gallery.
Oh Sew Kat! Dress Patterns for Welliewishers™ and Glitter Girls®:
Although my patterns are not specifically made to fit the newer, 15 inch Ruby Red Fashion Friend BJD dolls, there do have a similar shape and you can alter the patterns shown here to make them fit. I’ve collected a list of those changes in THIS POST.
Meet the newest Animators’ doll- Moana. I’ve had a lot of questions about the fit of Oh Sew Kat! clothing on Animators dolls, but also about Moana, because she has a little larger body than the usual Animators’. Her feet are definitely bigger!! But those eyes- she is just plain adorable. I’m also a big fan of her movie and her story, so maybe that helps. 🙂
Make your own Doll Clothes for the new 16 Inch Moana Animators’ Doll
Oh Sew Kat! offers 26 patterns and bundles for the 16 inch Animators’ dolls made by Disney®. The Animators’ series is not consistent across the years and dolls, some are a bit bigger or smaller than others. (For example, Anna is a full inch shorter than Elsa!) But I found that OSK patterns have enough ease and give to still fit every Animator doll I have tried, as well as Moana. Click HERE to go to the Animators’ Section of the Oh Sew Kat! Etsy Shop to see the full line of patterns available. These patterns often also fit Baby Galoob dolls as well.
I pulled out some of my Oh Sew Kat! pattern samples that I have made over the years, and tried many of them on my new Moana Animator Doll. These are all of the same outfits that are shown in the photos in my patterns here on the blog, and in my shop, and you will see them on the other dolls like Anna, Elsa, Ariel, Belle, and Rapunzel. I am happy to report that I did not have any trouble with any of the patterns I tried. Shoes, however, were a little different story. If Moana is wearing shoes, they are regular 18 inch doll size shoes. She did not come with shoes and her feet are very wide. Here are the patterns I tried and every single one fit just fine.
PDF Sewing Patterns for Animators’ Dolls and Moana
Above -Moana fits perfectly in the Spring Shine Dress! It’s a simple dress with pretty flutter sleeves (or leave them off) and a fake button front (no buttonholes required- it closes with hook and loop tape in the back!). It also makes a super cute top (instructions also included.). You can find it HERE.
Make Your Own Doll Clothes for your 16 inch Moana Animators’ Doll
The Bloomer Buddies will quickly become a favorite pattern due its mix and match options and versatility. Make it with or without sleeves in three lengths (top, tunic, dress) and add bloomers in one of three lengths (shortie, shorts, capri) for lots of different play clothes options! Moana looks adorable in polka dots!! Find this pattern HERE.
Moana Animator Doll – Sewing Your Own Doll Clothes
Above – The School Dance pattern has options to make the front of the dress in three ways- straight center (shown ladybugs above), princess seam center, and without a center at all. Basic long sleeves plus a-line skirt equals a classic dress!
Doll Clothes for Animators (Moana) with easy to sew, Oh Sew Kat! Patterns
Above – The Party Time Peasant Dress is super quick to sew. I love to make it with holiday fabrics and it easily moves from season to season. See the Inspiration Gallery HERE and purchase the pattern HERE.
Below- Moana is wearing a short sleeved peasant top, which is really a wardrobe staple. Her 3 tiered prairie style skirt lets her wander the beach or dance the night away. Find the Playtime Peasant Top and Twirl Skirt pattern HERE.
Be sure to visit THIS POST to see Moana in more (different) Oh Sew Kat! fashions, and find the full catalog of Animators’ sized patterns HERE.
I fell in love (ha ha, see what I did there?) with this Valentine fabric bundle I purchased from the ad: FAT QUARTER SHOP. They have the best selection of bundles and I purchase nearly all of my fabric online. Their selection varies from year to year, so this particular one might not be available, but this is a similar one HERE. Look for bundles that have a few different colors and then mix and match to your heart’s content. (Ha ha! Okay, okay, I’ll see myself out.)
Courtney’s lovely Valentine Skirt was made with the Twinkle Twirl Skirt PDF pattern. The pattern is quick to sew and you can choose fabrics and trims.
Valentines Day Doll Clothes- Fun Fabrics!
Kira’s simple skirt was made with a striped type print which was in the same fat quarter bundle as the prints on Courtney’s skirt above. It’s a quick sew when you use the Everything Nice overskirt pattern. Find it in the Sugar n Spice pattern bundle.
Mix and match a Fat Quarter Fabric Bundle
Grace’s Party Time Peasant Dress also came from the fat quarter bundle. I purchase premade gingham bias trim for the fun hem. See THIS POST for long sleeve instructions for this quick to sew dress.
Have a little fun mixing and matching fabrics you love! Oh Sew Kat! PDF sewing patterns for doll were made for it! Kendall is wearing the Twinkle Twirl Skirt. Purchase one pattern and get five doll sizes included!
If you’ve been around my blog here for a minute, you will know that the Party Time Peasant Dress is my go to sewing pattern for all the holidays. I love to mix and match the holiday fabric prints and this dress looks good on every doll and in every color!
Sewing Pattern for 18 inch Dolls: Party Time Peasant Dress by Oh Sew Kat!
It’s quick to sew and I just keep going back to it season after season. Here are some of my favorites for Valentine’s Day- notice how different they all look from each other despite all being from the same sewing pattern! Find the Party Time Peasant Dress pattern in six popular doll sizes HERE. See this post for information on making the dress with long sleeves.
Below, I added some lace to the neckline and the hem. See more information in THIS POST.
You can easily create fun Valentine’s Day themed outfits and accessories for your 18 inch dolls like American Girl, as well as other popular sized dolls with these simple patterns and easy tutorials.
Valentine Craft Tutorials for Dolls
Pull out your pinks and reds to show your dolly love today! Click the photo to go right to each project/tutorial.
Oh Sew Kat! 