Sew This Sunday! Sew Adollable Summer Shorts!

Welcome back to our blog and our Sew This Sunday Series. Today we are sharing the Free Summer Shorts Pattern and Tutorial from Sew Adollable. This is a great post and doll shorts are a must. Easy and fun to make! If you are new to sewing or are wanting to continue to create versatile wardrobes for the doll lover in your life you will want to check this tutorial out.
Click here for Sew Adollable's Tutorial  
Thank you for joining us here again this Sunday and we look forward to sharing more doll crafting inspiring posts with you again soon.
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Barbie patterns Free!

I just discovered this great site called The Spruce and they have some great patterns that are free for Barbie. The above is a photo of the easy skirt pattern then have shared and they have stuff for modern Barbie and vintage Barbie and Sindy! It is a great find! Check it out by Clicking here.

Happy Sewing!
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Sew This Sunday! Skip To My Lou's Sew Easy Doll Dress Pattern

One of the first things I learned to sew for dolls was this type of doll dress. I love how easy this tutorial is offered by Skip To My Lou. These dresses are quick easy and fun to make. If you are someone with lots of left over holiday fabric consider making this pattern in your holiday prints and present them to the doll lover in your life at the next gift giving occasion or sew it together for long lasting memories!

Click here for the Skip To My Lou Pattern. 

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Jessica T's Tip on A Free Pattern For A Witch Kitty Plush!

Jessica T sent me this link for a free sewing pattern for a Witch Kitty Plush! I love this idea and a free pattern is sure fun! You could make the witch hats into party hats as well and make them Birthday Kitties! Click here for the free sewing pattern and thank you Jessica T for this tip! 
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Sew This Sunday A Doll Maxi Skirt...

I found a very easy tutorial to share today for Sew This Sunday. This is a pattern for making your dolls Maxi Skirts from PACountryCrafts. Great step by step photos and a brilliant way to sew stretch fabric and create something for your dolls.

Click here for the tutorial and happy sewing! 
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Sew This Sunday!

Craft Gossip sent me this in their newsletter this week and I had to share. I love sewing for dolls and having patterns that are easy and fast are important to me. So when I sat this one I knew I had to share. You can use this as a dress or you can use it as a night gown. This is the perfect pattern to create party favors for that dolly sleepover party you were thinking of throwing or a great scrap buster pattern for all the left over holiday print fabrics you might have. Happy Sewing this Sunday! Click here for the pattern and original Craft Gossip Post.
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Tea Time Fabric Panels New Kits For Valentines Day!

Valentine's Tea Time Fabric Panel with Heart Ruffles for 18 inch dolls and for the Wellie Wishers a Swirly Hearts Dress and Cape Kint are now available on the Etsy site.

Each kit comes with what you need to create a sweet Valentine's Day outfit for your dolls.

I love the soft hues for Valentine's Day and I think these dolly's look delightful.

Click here for the Tea Time Fabric Panels listing for the 18 inch dolls
Click here for the Tea Time Fabric Panels listing for the 14 inch dolls.

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Jessica T's Tip, a new dress pattern from Avery Lane!

Jessica T has found a sweet pattern for us today from The Avery Lane Etsy Shop
This adorable pattern is for a dress which you can make be a fox, skunk or otter!

The matching ear headbands are just so sweet! Click here to learn more about this Etsy listed pattern for purchase.
Thank you Jessica T for this wonderful tip!
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Friday Reads... Sewing Clothes for Barbie & I CAN MAKE

I am so excited for the new release of Sewing Clothes for Barbie! This book has 24 outfits for Barbies and is on top of my wish list! You can adapt the patterns to the sizes of all the Barbie's as well! This book just came out last week as well. I can not wait to see what you make with yours I am ordering mine right now! 

Sew Barbie this cute wardrobe of 24 stylish outfits. Sew clothes for every day: jeans and a tie-waist shirt for a picnic in the country, a fleecy jumper and trousers for skiing, a bikini, towel and sunhat for the beach or dungarees for DIY. Or create outfits for special occasions, such as a floral cocktail dress, A-line wedding dress or a formal lacy dress for the theatre. And why not dip into the dressing-up box with fairy, mermaid and superwoman costumes? The detailed explanations are accompanied by step-by-step diagrams and real-size patterns, which can be adapted for petite, curvy, tall or original Barbie. The techniques used are simple and the outfits can be sewn by hand or on the machine. These are ideal projects for upcycling old clothes or making use of scraps of fabric from your stash.

You can order it with FREE shipping from The Book Depository by clicking here.

I have wanted this book called I CAN MAKE DOLLS CLOTHES for a while now and it is currently offered on The Book Depository Website and on Sale! I loved Barbies growing up and I love that now you can find Barbies in all shapes and sizes. Learning to sew Barbie clothes was something I always wanted as a child and I was constantly stealing J-Cloths from my mom so I could make no sew doll clothes for my dolls. As a grown up this is the type of book I wish I had as a child. You can find it on sale now at The Book Depository with free shipping worldwide by clicking here. 
This book teaches children of 7+ how to make fashionably cool mix-and-match clothes for a standard 30 cm (12 in) plastic doll. Its approach is simple, quick and fun, and the results are extremely stylish. At the beginning of the book, children are encouraged to be creative and adapt the patterns to make their own designs. The main section of the book includes patterns for nine garments, each with an actual-size pattern on the page to use as a template, along with super-clear instructions and illustrations of each step. Helpful tips and inspirational photographs of the dolls modelling the finished clothes run throughout the book, and a section at the back sets out the basics of sewing, including how to thread a needle, do a running stitch and sew on poppers and buttons.

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Learn to Sew Perfect tights for your dolls!

Sewing is so much fun and so rewarding. I am self taught (other than the 4 week  high school intro class I took)  and when I started sewing doll clothing 8 years ago I was afraid of sewing stretchy fabric. But once I got the hang of it it was my favorite fabric to work with. One thing I wish I had back then was a pattern kit like this one from Tea Time Fabric Panels. This kit is priced under $10 and you have everything you need (minus scissors and your threaded sewing machine) to create the perfect pair of doll tights!

Doll tights are an essential to wardrobes of doll lovers as you can dress them up or down and they add so much dimension to outfits!

Have dolly wear them under a dress, skirt or with a long tunic top and you have a great outfit for Valentines day!
Click here for Tea Time Fabric Panels Etsy shop and listing. 
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Sew a great outfit from scraps you have on hand for Christmas!

You can make this has a wonderful pattern I know you are going to enjoy and it is free! You can make your dolls a wonderful holiday outfit  using scrap holiday fabric or fabric you pick for someone special. I love this pattern and I think you will too!
Click here for the pattern and happy crafting! 
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Two Tutorials To Share!

Some truly wonderful pattern tutorials have come through my inbox this week and I want to share them with you. First up is for a Matching Girl And Doll Dress! Click here for this pattern and tutorial. 

Next up is this t-shirt tutorial you can find here. 
I know we are getting down to the wire for creating and sharing and had to slip these in, so that you may find time to create for the doll lovers in your life!
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Make Doll Clothes and Memories With Tea Time Fabric Panels This Holiday Season.

I spoke with Lyn at Tea Time Fabric Panels this week by email and while they will ship right up until the 23rd, if you would like to avoid the holiday rush and create some wonderful outfits for the doll lover in your life order early and avoid the rush!

I am currently awaiting a kit in the mail to sew for the holidays and I am so excited! These outfits come together really easily and quickly, with that professional look!

These kits not only make great outfits they also make great gifts. Give a kit to someone in your life who loves dolls and teach them to sew for their dolls. It will become the gift that keeps on giving.
Click here to see the entire Etsy shop and choose a kit to create this holiday, make doll clothes and memories with Tea Time Fabric Panels Etsy Shop and Kits.
I can not wait to show you what I made with mine!
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Cabbage Patch Sunday Etsy Pattern Fun Finds

Earlier this week I had my nieces and my young BFF Angela over and they had my Cabbage Patch Dolls out and were playing with them. It did my heart good, actually one is still tucked in with a dolly quilt in my reading chair right now.  My young niece PB always has me dressing and undressing her baby and has been asking me for a dolly sweater which I don't have in cabbage patch size so I got to thinking and looking on Etsy and found this pattern to share with you today.
Miss Meggy Designs has a few patterns for all the different sized Cabbage Patch Kids. The one above is for the 11 and 14 inch dolls you can view it by clicking here.

This photo made me quite excited, while I have the original dolls still I do have a few smaller ones and the sweater in the middle is one I would love to make my dolls! Click here for this PDF listing in her etsy shop. 

If you are more into Sewing check out the PDF pattern for PJ's, Dressing Gown, Slippers and Pillow, with quilt, this one is on my wish list for sure! Click here to see why! 
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Too Cute Doll Designs Has Some Love For Your Mailbox!

Margie over at Too Cute Doll Designs has a whole new Subscription deal for those of us who love to create for our dolls!

If you like to sew for 18-inch dolls, then this quarterly publication is just for you! Each 24-page issue is filled with beautiful photos to inspire your creativity, tips to increase your sewing expertise, and interviews with doll clothes sewing enthusiasts. Plus, you'll get at least four (4) traceable patterns in every issue. 

An annual subscription includes 4 Issues and is published as follows:
1. Spring issue - mailed in early February
2. Summer issue - mailed in early May 
3. Fall issue - mailed in early August
4. Winter issue - mailed in early November

All new subscriptions received through 10/15/17 will begin with the FALL 2017 issue. If you would like your subscription to begin with a different issue, please indicate the start issue in the NOTES section when you place your order.

$10 additional per year for Canadian orders.

Not sure if you want to subscribe for a whole year? Try just one issue - only $7 each. See separate listings for each issue.

Personally I recieved one issue and I thought it was spectacular. Such a fun and welcome mailbox treat with patterns and great photos to guide you through the  creative process! Click here for Too Cute Doll Designs Etsy shop to see what I am so excited about! 
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Holiday Madness Monday Week 2

Week two in our Holiday Madness series and this week I think I found something you will enjoy. How about a Santa Suit Pattern for all your dolls?

Even the Bitties get in on this fun pattern!

This pattern is created and sold by Coles Creations and is one I am so excited to see! Click here for the Etsy Shop and get started sewing a Santa Suit for your dolls or doll lover this holiday season.
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Jessica T's Saturday Sewing Suggestions! Week 8 Pixiefaire Doll Shoulder Bag!

This week Jessica T is featuring the PixieFaire Doll Shoulder Bag tutorial! What a versatile pattern also great for scrap fabric remnants!

This is a perfect dolly bag!
Jessica T says "Every doll needs a purse and this one looks adorable and has very straight forward instructions!"

Click here for the Super Easy Doll Shoulder Bag Pattern on Pixiefaire

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Jessica T's Saturday Sewing Suggestions! Week 7 Beret's For All Dolls!

This week Jessica T has found us a pattern we love. So much so that we have shared www.american-doll-outfitters.com 's pattern tutorial many times before.

Personally I used this pattern to create all my nieces hats for their dolls and my oldest Niece's entire summer camp cabin hats for their FRENCH Themed camp. 

Jessica T says "This is such a great intro pattern.  It can be made out of crafting felt so very inexpensive but still gives a great outcome."

I could not agree more! Click here for the wonderful free pattern from www.american-doll-outfitters.com

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Jessica T's Saturday Sewing Suggestions! Week 6 Fat Quarter Doll Quilt

This week Jessica T has found us a really exciting tutorial for a Fat Quarter Doll Quilt! This tutorial comes to us from the Polkadot Chair Website.

Jessica says "If you don't have time to do the quilting it will give you a fabulous outcome just with the fat quarters sew together!"

What a wonderful website you found for us Jessica T, Click here for the tutorial from www.polkadotchair.com 
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Jessica T's Saturday Sewing Suggestions! Week 5 GLOVES!

We know it is Summer but get a jump start on the holiday sewing with these felt gloves.

This is a great tutorial for how to make gloves for your dolls from Me and My Gals!
These are quick and easy and make great gifts!
Click here for the pre tutorial

Thank you Jessica T for this suggestion! We would love to hear from you so please leave us a comment here or email me at karenmowen@gmail.com