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Short Sleeve
Ruffled Bodysuit and Circle Skirt Patterns
to Fit American Girl 18 Inch and Similar Dolls
Ideas for Holidays
by
Susan Kramer
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Clothes Patterns for 18
Inch Dolls and Bitty Baby
Contents:
1.
Ruffled Bodysuit
2.
Circle Skirt
3.
Ebook Patterns
1.
Ruffled Bodysuit:
Here
are instructions for making a one piece bodysuit to fit 18inch (45cm) American
Girl, Gotz Precious Day, and other 18 inch full body dolls with similar body
types.
The bodysuit can be used as underwear to keep the doll's cloth skin clean as it
covers the cloth parts of the doll.
Also it can be made up in print or flowered fabric as
light weight summer wear outdoors.
Supplies needed:
You’ll need one quarter yard (one quarter meter) of material.
Two sticky dots for front shirt and back shirt closing,
(no buttons for kids doll clothes, please).
Bodysuit Sewing Directions:
This is a very easy to make bodysuit pattern with just 1 piece. The
pattern piece is below. Cut 4 pieces of the pattern. 2 for front and 2 for
back.
Sew center front seams together beginning 2 inches below bottom tip of diagonal
neckline.
Sew center back seams together beginning 2 inches below bottom tip of diagonal
neckline.
Place good side of front and back toward each other and sew underarms all the
way to bottom hem on both sides.
Sew front to back at shoulders.
For all hems roll edges in 1/8 inch twice and blind seam: Lower legs, lower
sleeves and all the way around front center up to neck, around neck, down to
back center, up to neck around to front and back to starting place.
Lastly, sew front
to back inseam.
To finish sew lace around neck opening, and sew a
sticky dot on center of front and back opening.
Having openings in front and back makes the body suit easy to put on and take
off.
Pattern Piece:
The pattern is traced onto 1 inch (2.5cm) squares of graph paper.
Pattern piece includes 1/4 inch seam allowance unless noted differently..
This pattern is my copyright but you may use it for personal use
and gifts but not commercially.
Cap Sleeve Body Suit Pattern: (to make sleeveless version cut the sleeve
length back an inch at shoulder in a straight line down to existing curve at
underarm)
2. Circle Skirt Construction:
You’ll
need 20 inches (50cm), or nearly 2/3 yard (meter) of material for the skirt.
To cut out circle skirt like on the skirt above, fold a 20 inch length of
fabric cross wise - the cross wise fold is shown at top edge in the photo
below.
From the center point along the folded edge, carefully drawn a line 10 inches
out in a semicircle then cut out semicircle. (If you opened out the cut skirt
you'd have a big circle 20 inches in diameter.)
But you need to cut-out a small semicircle to make the waist. The circumference
of this waist cut-out should be 14 inches. Try first cutting out a circle 1.5
inches from the center of the fold, if this is not quite long enough to match
the lower edge of the bodice make the cut-out a bit bigger.
When you open out the fabric it will look like a donut shape.
To form the back seam of the skirt cut down 2 inches
on one of the folded edges from the waist edge and blind stitch raw edges.
Turn
in waist seam ¼ inch and sew on stretch seam binding and then tack to inside.
Sew
on 1 inch wide pre-ruffled lace ¼ inch from top of waist as in photo above. Sew
on 2 layers of wider pre-ruffled lace near lower edge of skirt in a pattern
similar to photo if you wish and attach a bow at top as I did.
To
hem skirt, roll a narrow hem which means turning in one eighth seam twice as
you move along the hem. Use a sticky dot for overlapping waist closure instead
of hook and eye, or button (safer for kids).
Article, pattern and photo credits copyright 2009―2016 Susan Kramer
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page created October 11, 2016; updated November 29, 2016; April 12, 2021;
February 18, 2024