Resizing Patterns For Wellie Wishers and Disney Toddler Dolls Part 4

Welcome to Part 4 of my blog series where I’m showing just how easy it is to resize my 18 inch and American Girl doll clothes patterns to fit the smaller 13 inch Disney Toddler and 14 ½ inch Wellie Wishers dolls. As this is my final blog of this series, I’m finishing with one of my most popular patterns, the gorgeous Wedding Dress Pattern. I made the Disney Toddler doll dress in blue with long sleeves to show that this pattern can also be used to create a glamorous ballgown. The Wellie Wishers doll is wearing the wedding dress option without sleeves. All patterns were printed by reducing my 18 inch and American Girl doll clothes patterns and the following table shows you what percentage to reduce them by as well as additional adjustments that were made.

If you missed part 3 of the blog where we looked at resizing my doll clothes patterns with a focus on summer outfits, be sure to check it out.

DISNEY TODDLER DOLL

WELLIE WISHERS DOLL

Wedding Dress – Petticoat

Cut a piece of cotton or polycotton 16” x 8 ½” (40cm x 22cm)

Cut one piece of Netting 32” x 2 ½” (80cm x 6cm)

Cut one piece of Netting 24” x 5” (60cm x 12cm)

¼” Elastic x 6” (6mm Elastic x 15cm)

Attach the narrow piece of netting 2 ½” (6cm) up from the finished hem.

Attach the wider piece of netting 5” (12cm) up from the finished hem.

Wedding Dress – Petticoat

Cut a piece of cotton or polycotton 16” x 9” (40cm x 23cm)

Netting – same as for Disney Toddler

Elastic – same as for Disney Toddler

Attach as per Disney Toddler.

DISNEY TODDLER DOLL

WELLIE WISHERS DOLL

Wedding Dress – Ball Gown

Print bodice at 60%

Print Long Sleeve at 65% and to the Australian Girl cutting line, add 1/8” (3mm) to the width on both sides i.e. to the seam allowance. Shorten the sleeve ¼” (6mm).

Print Skirt at 65% and add ¾” to the length of the Australian Girl cutting line.

Wedding Dress

Print Bodice at 65% and add ¼” to the length of the bodice.

If making the option with long sleeves, print Long Sleeve at 65% and to the Australian Girl cutting line, add 1/8” (3mm) to the width on both sides i.e. to the seam allowance.

Print Skirt at 65% and add 1 ¼” to the length of the Australian Girl cutting line.

Veil

For the veil, I simply cut 4 pieces of tulle/netting 12” x 10” (30cm x 25cm), place them on top of each other and gathered the shorter end then attached to a small comb with a hot glue gun and added small flowers.

Bouquet

I made this the same way as the original, larger one but used smaller flowers and a smaller piece of tulle.

Hope you have enjoyed this series of blogs and I’d love you to share photos of the dresses you make.  If you missed the earlier blogs, you will find them by clicking the following links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

If you need help resizing your patterns with your printer, you may be interested in my blog, How to Resize You PDF Doll Clothes Pattern Using Your Printer.

If you have other sized dolls and would like to know how to determine how much to reduce or increase your pattern, you may be interested in my blog, A Great Tip for Resizing Doll Clothes Sewing Patterns.

Happy reducing & sewing