Home made Barbie clothes?

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I would like to find patterns to make clothes to fit a Barbie size doll. Any leads?

Are you after knitting, crocheting or sewing?

If knitting, most wool shops have patterns lurking in a folder somewhere. Careful though-your Barbie may struggle to live down the shame of being married in a knitted wedding dress. I know mine did . As a first call for other clothes, try a simple t shirt/t shirt dress by drawing round Barbie on an old folded t shirt in a kind of t shirt shape with space round the edge Then sew into shape and use a bit of Velcro to fasten. I'll bet there are simplicity patterns for Barbie too.

Mum had some years ago. Very very fiddly.
She used to make most of her clothes and a lot of ours, but she hated barbie stuff.
I suspect the factories have special long narrow machines, with tiny feet and miniature overlockers. Barbie sleeves are awful on a normal one.

There is an online site that you can download patterns for adults kids and some dolls clothes for a few dollars something thinks sewing patterns dot com.
If you google downloadable seeing patterns you should come across it.

I think knitted ones are easier.
I had a pattern book and made a wedding dress and skirts and even a pair of combats for action man.

Sewing patterns mainly but simple knitting patterns for girls welcome too. Thanks.

My friend made awesome dresses for her DCs barbies - by cutting the feet off a sock! You know the types of girls socks with the lace at the top? That then ends up being the base/hem of the clingy wrap dress! It looks fab! (Maybe b/c of Barbies' figure she can get away with wearing an old sock and still look fab though! :)

I design knitting patterns for clothes and accessories for Barbie. The latest is for Olympic sportswear. Oooops... does this count as advertising?

I once unpicked a Barbie outfit, drew round the pieces on tracing paper and used that as a template for another outfit (then sewed the original back up.
(and people say step mothers are evil?)

Yes the seams are really fiddly so try and make something with no sleeves in!

Oh yessss I love making dolls clothes. (unfortunately my nieces have grown up now).

you can get a pattern from McCalls or somewhere, they are not particularly cheap although possibly ebay would have some. There are normally about 8 outfits in the pattern though so you get lots of value out of it. Any 11.5 inch doll pattern will fit. [[http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/250119316546?var=lv

I probably shouldn't admit to this but when I was a small girl I belonged to a majorette troupe . My mother made replicas of the uniform to fit Sindy dolls. She made her own patterns mirroring my uniform and used my Sindy doll (I think this was why I was bought one) to ensure the fit was right. It was very fiddly with the different colours and the fabric was satin and slippery but she made buckets of the things to raise money for the troupe. I doubt there was a child in town that didn't have one.

I has a Pinterest board about it, have a search on Pinterest.

The main issue is seam allowances and apparently it's the reason for original Barbie's unrealistic proportions - if you take a big gathered 50s skirt, the amount of fabric that ends up bunched up in the seam allowances, even if they are teeny seam allowances, adds a huge % to the waist size. So they reshaped the doll accordingly.

You'll need doll velcro too. There is an ebay seller who does it, but it takes a while to arrive from the far east somewhere.

If you can get hold of it, Nicky Epstein wrote a book with knitting patterns for Barbie... try you local library, you never know!

r3dh3d - thanks for the info about doll velco. I have now found it on eBay, from a seller in Hong Kong. Have you used it before? Does it fray at all when cut?

I had a look for that sort of velcro a few years ago and never found it anywhere.