My four year old daughter loves Barbies! She is so cute making up stories for her dolls. When we had a snow day earlier this week from school we decided to make Barbie clothes! I had never made Barbie clothes before! I was so excited and she too. We found this awesome simple dress tutorial!
Barbie Simple Dress from Craftiness is not Optional
We pulled fabrics out from my stash and cut them into strips. I could not believe how easy it was to make Barbie a simple dress.
I let my Princess sew every stitch. She is to little to press the machine pedal and hold the fabric so she did one or the other. I pinned, ironed and cut but she made the dresses. She is so proud of them and she hasn’t stopped playing Barbies yet!
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http://embyquinn.tripod.com/dollpats.html
I have also found books at the libary with more patterns..
Have fun!
Indianapolis, IN they had a Barbie exhibit- I didn't think it was that great but the little girls loved it. What was nice is that they had handmade Barbie clothing- wedding grown - crotchet dresses- if you want to see them contact me I will send you pictures.
Gaileee
You can follow my progress at
www.yourfashionplate.blogspot.com
The Barbies each have a bio and their fashions are served up with a delicious recipe, too.
For more seams go to molendrix.com. She (I think) is Czeck, so you have to try to understand some of her translations, but I've printed out her patterns over and over. I add or remove openings, lengths, make a dress a top and skirt--or reverse--, turn a back-opening dress into a front-opening coat, etc., etc. I copy/paste into my word processing program and stretch the borders to the edge of the page. In most cases they either fit--she doesn't add seam allowances--or they're slightly larger so they can be 'fitted'for every barbie body type. She does Lord of the Rings and other movie/fantasy/fairy tale clothes, but as I said they can be changed--but they're LOVELY. Visit the site just to look, but I think you'll like the patterns. Hope these add to your wardrobe!
How do I find your tutorials on youtube re barbie Nd bags please
Margaret