Skort – Skirt – Bodysuit Pattern
to Fit American Girl 18 Inch Dolls
Gotz Precious Day and Similar Full Body Dolls
With
attached skort - skirt |
With
attached skort - skirt |
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Susan Helene Kramer
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Here are instructions for making a one piece bodysuit with attached skirt -
making it a skort - 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
just 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 for bodysuit, and
one quarter yard (one quarter meter) of material for skirt, which could be a
contrasting fabric.
Two sticky dots for front shirt and back
shirt closing, (no buttons for kids doll
clothes, please).
Cross grain or satin ribbon for
waist and bow.
Lace for neck edge.
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
the front and 2 for the 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.
Lace at neck: Simply
stitch on pre-gathered lace over finished neck edge.
Lastly, sew front to back inseam.
To finish 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.
Bodysuit Pattern Piece:
The pattern is traced onto 1 inch (2.5cm) squares of graph paper. You can try
printing out the patterns and see if the squares are 1 inch square, then cut
out the pattern.
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 Skort – Skirt:
Look at photo of folded up skort at top of page for help in sewing.
Cut fabric
32 inches wide and 7 inches long.
Finished
skirt length is 5 inches.
Hem lower
edge by first turning up one half inch twice.
Turn long
waist end 1 inch to inside and gather to fit waist of finished body suit.
Sew to a
ribbon just as if making an apron.
Position
horizontally one inch below armpit. The easiest way to sew skirt to body suit
is to draw a straight line on waist line using a sturdy ruler, then position
apron. Another way to make the sewing line is to fold the body suit at the
waist line, and press to make a crease to use as a guide to sew on the skirt.
Sew in
place.
Sew back
skirt seam.
Tips:
Iron all
pattern pieces after cutting and before sewing.
Turn up
and iron all hems before sewing.
Article, pattern and photo credits copyright 2009―2012 Susan Helene
Kramer
Email:
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