Doll Clothes Sewing Tips

Sewing tips for people who want to make well fitted doll clothes or doll dresses. Our sewing doll dresses tips will help you avoid some of the most common mistakes made when sewing for dolls. Many sewists experienced in sewing people clothes encounter unforseen challenges when translating their sewing skills to making doll dresses and doll clothing. Many of our doll clothing semininar students are actually highly skilled at making people clothes but run into difficulties translating these concepts to doll size. We hope our tips are helfpul.

Bulky Under Arm Seams

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Bulky Under Arm Seams

Recently one of my website fans wrote me the following :

“When working with small doll clothes, it is difficult to get the sleeve under the arm pit to lay right. It often bunches up under the arm. It would be great to see tips on your site about that.”

I think this is a fairly common problem, so I did a picture article. 

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Sewing Tips- Fabric Markers

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I started sewing on an electric sewing machine in 1939. I was four years old. I have been sewing ever since. I started out making doll clothes, and of course had to learn to make my own patterns--we were poor and lived in a town that didn't even have a fabric store, even if we had had money to buy patterns.

My sewing was confined to doll clothes until I was about 8, when Mama let me start making clothes for myself. The first dress I made I had to wait until we used up five 50 pound bags of flour, so I could have the flour sacks to make my dress from. I was scared to

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Sewing Tips-About Lining Doll Clothes

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DOLL CLOTHES SEWING TIPS FROM JOANN

 

I see many clothes for sale on eBay and on websites that don't look quite right. Long ballgowns that proudly say, "Fully lined!" Then you look at the full skirt, and instead of falling and flowing gracefully, it puckers up around the bottom and looks stiff. It is because in a doll dress, even for a large doll, there is not enough weight in the fabric to make it fall gracefully once you bulk it up with a lining. In a person dress this would not be a problem, because there would be a couple of yards of fabric to 

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