Make a Holiday Doll Skirt for 18 inch Dolls

Do you still need a few quick and easy holiday gifts for girls in your life? Gifts for daughters? Gifts for granddaughters? This pattern is perfect for your girl and all of her friends too! You can download the Sixth Grade Skirt PDF printable pattern from my Etsy Shop today, and stitch up a sweet set of skirts in just an afternoon! These skirts have a hook and loop closure back; they are easily adjusted to different brands of dolls. With a few straight seams, you will love how quickly they go together and how little fabric each one takes! Add a Playtime Peasant Top or a Popsicle Top to complete the outfit.

One Simple Pattern: So Many Different Skirts!

Easy to make holiday doll skirt for your 18 inch doll

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The Sixth Grade Skirt pattern is rated VERY EASY. Even the young, beginner seamstress will be successful with this easy to cut and easy to sew pattern.

Find the Sixth Grade Skirt for 18 inch dolls, 16 inch Animators, 15 inch Bitty Baby®, A Girl for All Time®, Wellie Wishers™, Glitter Girls®, and Hearts for Hearts Girls® dolls HERE.

Use the Sixth Grade Skirt pattern to make a holiday skirt for your 18 inch doll.

Look at this!! The Sixth Grade Skirt can also be worn backwards or to the side, for even more fashion options. Use the hook and loop tape to close it like usual, and add decorative buttons to the edge. Now you have two skirts in one!

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The Easy PDF Printable Sewing Pattern, Sixth Grade Skirt, is easy to sew and fun for dolls to wear this Holiday!

Use this TUTORIAL to make a pretty, lace neck ruffle on a simple Playtime Peasant Top with a simple lace trim to complete the perfect 18 inch doll holiday outfit. See more holiday outfits for dolls HERE and HERE. Add the shiny black boots (part of the Grace Thomas collection from American Girl®) and the outfit is perfect! The Sixth Grade Skirt is available in my Etsy Shop in six popular doll sizes. Find them all and also value bundles HERE.

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Easy to sew, this PDF Skirt pattern for dolls will let you give the girls on your holiday gift list the perfect doll skirt.

Pick out some fun holiday prints and make this cute contrasting skirt. It screams holiday happiness for dolls! You can make an entire skirt with just a fat quarter of fabric (18×22 inches)- in fact, you can probably make two! Look in the Inspiration Gallery to see more ideas for the fun skirts you can make.

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Make your own 18 inch doll skirt with the Sixth Grade Skirt pattern from Oh Sew Kat!

Nellie loves her modern Christmas skirt. Here she wears her tights and Mary Jane shoes, and the Sixth Grade Skirt looks perfect with the Jumping Jack turtleneck shirt. Cut the center panel of the skirt on the bias (diagonal) to give your skirt an interesting twist!

Find the Sixth Grade Skirt pattern and find it bundled with other patterns and save $$ HERE in my Etsy Shop. See more ideas for this fun pattern HERE and HERE, and add pockets using THIS TUTORIAL.

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My Favorite Doll Clothes Sewing Patterns for the Holidays

All those cute holiday fabrics in the stores and online are just so hard to resist! Every year I love to sew up a few new doll outfits with the latest prints and colors. Here are some of my favorites. Find all of these PDF sewing patterns in my ETSY SHOP.

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Make your doll a holiday outfit with the Backyard Bibs PDF Sewing Pattern

The Backyard Bibs PDF sewing pattern is a very easy sewing project. Even a very inexperienced seamstress will find the process easy to follow with awesome results. Pull out your awesome holiday fabrics and make your doll a Backyard Bibs skirt or capri outfit today!

Grace’s poinsettia bibs (above) bring a fun PINK color to the holiday season. I used it with the Playtime Peasant top pattern- you can find the 2 bundle value here. Perfect for warmer climates or add a cozy sweater and some furry boots! Nicki’s aqua snowman bibs are from the same fabric collection (Merry Merry Snow Days by Moda). I used striped bias tape to add more interest and she’s wearing it over a Jumping Jack turtleneck shirt (made with the lower collar option.) . Find the patterns HERE.

Make a quick and easy Easy Up! jumper in fun holiday fabric. Make it Reversible!

I love this pattern! I made a dress for my daughter a long time ago and this pattern is the result. See the full post here. The Easy Up! pattern looks complicated, but it’s really very simple. With a full front and front contrast straps and hem kick pleat, it’s the perfect pattern for your awesome and fun holiday fabrics.

I used a cute, gingham bias tape for the hem on this jumper. I didn’t, but it would be cute to use the same trim for the straps too. Have fun mixing and matching your fun fabrics. Go outside your box! Fabric is called SNOW GLOBE by Moda.

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Your doll will be ready for the holidays and beyond with an adorable Jumping Jack 3 in1 Jumper Set.

The Jumping Jack pattern is probably the biggest Oh Sew Kat! sleeper pattern. It consists of three pieces, a long sleeve, turtleneck shirt, a pair of wide leg shots, and a reversible “front and back” apron style jumper that makes the complete outfit look like a cute dress. This pattern is based on a 1974 design. See more HERE. With three unique pieces, you will certainly want to add it to your pattern collection whether you use it as a set or for its individual pieces . Check out the turtleneck shirts I featured in THIS POST.

Sewing Tip- any time I make a reversible outfit for the winter holidays, I often make the reverse in Valentine fabric. This santa jumper has red and pink hearts on the reverse.

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Holiday outfits for dolls? Yes, please. Try the Bloomer Buddies sewing pattern for so many options!

Bloomer Buddies is a very versatile pattern. With three lengths for the top (top, tunic, dress) and three lengths for the bloomers (shortie, knee, capri), you can make it with out without sleeves for even more options. Choose classic Christmas colors (See more photos HERE) or make it with long sleeves (directions in THIS POST). Use this pattern to make nightgowns and pajamas too!! (See THIS POST and THIS ONE.)

Every sewing pattern is just the starting point. Once you have a bodice and a skirt, you can make a dress that fits your dream.

Use Oh Sew Kat! patterns to make cute holiday outfits for American Girl sized dolls.

See my favorite patterns for Fall HERE and for Summer HERE.

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Oh Sew Kat’s Pattern Pick of the Month: The Sunshine Dress

The days are longer, the days are warmer, and everything is suddenly green! As we turn the calendar from spring to the lazy days of summer, choose an easy to make, short sleeved a-line dress with lots of options for your 18 inch doll, her 16 inch Animators’ friends, and 14.5 inch Wellie Wishers – the Sunshine Dress.

Save 25% on the Sunshine Dress Sewing Pattern from 1-5 June 2019.

Purchase the Sunshine Dress Sewing Pattern for Dolls HERE.

This month will feature Kat’s Pattern Pick of the Month. Grab this pattern in my ETSY SHOP only 25% off for a very, limited time. No coupon is needed, please wait until the pattern listing price is changed to $3.75 before purchasing. (I am in the East Coast, USA time zone). Then stay tuned here to the blog, my facebook page, and instagram account for a month long celebration of ideas, inspiration, pattern hacks, sew alongs, who wore it best, and more!

The Sunshine Dress sewing pattern for dolls is an easy to sew, short sleeved dress with lots of options.

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Use THIS TUTORIAL to make the Sunshine Dress into a pretty, sleeveless sheath dress like Maryellen’s rosy dress below.

Add lace to the Sunshine Dress for a 1970’s inspired dress!

Find the easy tutorial here to make a perfect dress for BeForever character, Julie Albright.

Save 25% on the Sunshine Dress Doll Sewing Pattern from Oh Sew Kat!- Limited Time Offer!

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Sew the Sunshine Dress- a summer basic with lots of options!

The Sunshine Dress sewing pattern is available in three sizes: 18 inch, 16 inch Animators’ and 14.5 inch Wellie Wishers/Glitter Girls.

Find the Sunshine Dress for Wellie Wisher sized dolls HERE. See more photos of Sunshine Dresses here and here.

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Check back each week to see more Sunshine Dress fun!! See who wore their Sunshine Dress best HERE. Visit facebook to see more!

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Sew a Halloween Costume for Your Wellie Wishers Dolls

What is more fun than dressing dolls up in adorable Halloween costumes that you make yourself?  Here are a few ideas of costumes that your Wellie Wishers would love to wear.  All of these patterns are also available in other doll sizes in my Etsy Shop.

Make a fun Halloween costume for your 14 inch doll with easy sewing patterns

Today’s costume theme is the color BLUE!!

Use the Popsicle Top and Sixth Grade Skirt patterns to make a sweet Elsa inspired costume.  The full tutorial for the skirt is HERE.

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Use the Sugar n Spice sewing pattern to create many different Halloween costumes

Julie H. of Sew Dolled Up 81 made this beautiful ice princess outfit with the Sugar n Spice pattern.   It’s amazing how some fancy fabrics can completely change the look of a simple dress pattern.

And finally, Jaci G.  of JGooseandCo made this beautiful Alice in Wonderland outfit for her Hearts for Hearts doll with the Sugar n Spice pattern with included bonus apron.

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Dress your Wellie Wisher or Hearts for Hearts doll in a Halloween costume you make yourself

See more Halloween costume ideas here and here, and be sure to check out the Inspiration Gallery as well.

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Nanea’s Wardrobe: Make a Hawaiian Muumuu Dress with the Playtime Peasant Top pattern hack by Oh Sew Kat!

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Everyone is going hog wild for Hawaiian fashions with American Girl’s release of the 1940s doll, Nanea Mitchell.  (Pronounced Na-Nay-Uh).  Enjoy this second way to make a Hawaiian dress for your doll.

Make a Hawaiian MuuMuu Dress for your 18 inch doll.

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Part Two:  Playtime Peasant Top!

Nanea lives in Hawaii in 1941, at the time of the Pearl Harbor Attack.  Read more about her in her books by American Girl® here (affiliate link from Amazon).  You can make beautiful Hawaiian dresses for Nanea or any of her doll friends with sewing patterns you may already own from Oh Sew Kat! In this tutorial, use the Playtime Peasant Top to make a pretty, ruffled Muumuu.

Use this easy pattern hack to make a Hawaiian inspired doll dress.

First, you need the pattern. This pattern is available in my Etsy Shop (also available for Animators and WellieWishers too!).  Click the image to purchase the digital sewing pattern and download and print it out on your home computer.

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**This tutorial, or pattern hack, assumes you have a basic knowledge of sewing and is designed to show you how to make a few changes to the Oh Sew Kat! Playtime Peasant Top pattern to create a new outfit.  Please see the actual pattern for pattern pieces and more specific, step by step instructions.  See many more ways to make the Playtime Peasant Top in the Inspiration Gallery.

Step 1.  Cut out two bodice pieces, two short sleeves, one ruffle strip 3 x 20 inches for the neck, and one 3 x 32 inch strip for the hem ruffle. This purple dress was made with a neckline ruffle that measured 2 x 20 inches, so it’s a little shorter, but remember, you get to design it!  Choose the finished length you want your neck ruffle, and multiply it x 2.  Add 1/2 inch for seam allowances, and cut it to 20 inches in length.

Step 2.  Zigzag finish or serge one long edge of the ruffles.  Press up 1/4th inch and stitch in place. (You could also use a rolled hem on a serger!)

Step 3.  Stitch your bodice and sleeves pieces together as directed in the pattern.  Lay it out on your table with the right side facing up towards you and wrong side against the table.  Place the raw edge of the ruffle on the raw edge of the neckline, also with right side facing up.  Pin and stitch in place with a little less than a 1/4 inch seam.  Finish the edge with a serger if desired.  Press this edge down 3/8 inch to the wrong side to make a casing for the neck elastic.  It is a little thick, so use some steam. Feed the elastic through both layers and secure the ends as stated in the directions in the pattern.  Again, it’s a little thick, so just take it slowly. I always use a bodkin like this one.

Step 4.  Sew one side seam as directed in the pattern.  Open up your dress and with right sides together, pin the hemline ruffle to the raw, hem edge.  Stitch in place, and top stitch from the front, catching the seam allowance.  Complete the final steps for the other side seam per the pattern.  Once your dress is done, fluff up the ruffle around the neckline! Maryellen is ready for some fun at the luau!

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Make a Hawaiian Dress for an 18 inch doll

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See more ways to make your Playtime Peasant Top here and here.  Do you want to make more Hawaiian Muumuu dresses? See the three other pattern hack/tutorials here,  here, and here.

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Use this pattern hack to make shirts for your doll as well as dresses.

Here is another example of the Playtime Peasant Top with an added neck ruffle. So cute!!!

Try it with lace instead of a fabric ruffle!

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