Welcome to Part 3 of my video series where I’ll be showing you more ways to alter my 18 Inch American Girl Summer Dress and Cabbage Patch Summer Dress Doll Clothes Patterns to create new outfits for your doll. I hope you’ve been enjoying these videos and don’t forget, I’d love to see photos of the doll clothes you create using these alteration techniques – just email me a photo or pop it on my Face Book page.
Now, in Part 1 and 2 we looked at how to simplify the dress, create cute little summer tops, introduced lace and used pleats instead of gathers. Today I will show you how to add an additional layer of interest to the basic summer dress and then just how easy it is to alter the neckline to create totally new looks.
Okay, let’s get started!
‘Sew’ are you ready to do some alterations? Great, give it a try and let me know how you go. Send me some photos and don’t forget to join me for the final video in a couple of weeks.
If you missed the previous videos, replay Part 1 and replay Part 2.
Until then, Happy Sewing
By Rosie Saw
Love your site. I’m altering your Summer Dress for my 24 inch antique doll. She has jointed arms and legs and need new clothes, so this seems to be the perfect site. I’ve made the bodice and it seems to fit her, just a few adjustments to be done to the pattern. I’m interested in the cute halter top you made for your cabbage patch doll, I think my Anna Doll would look great in it. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you,
Dorothy Seiwell, Lancaster, California
Glad you found my site Dorothy. I’d love to see a photo and hear what adjustments you had to make to my summer dress pattern to get it to fit your 24 inch antique doll. The halter top really is an easy one to adjust, depending on how big her chest is and how much bigger she is around the body. You may not have to alter the front at all and just add a little to the length of the back to get it to fit around her. If you do need to make the front bigger to cover her chest, you can either use your printer to enlarge the pattern or simply draw around it, adding the additional amount you feel it needs. Again, I’d love to hear how you go with this one. Happy sewing 🙂