Scroll down to the second set of bullets to download the free printable PDF sewing pattern.*
A couple of weeks ago I gave you the little white shirt you see pictured in both the video and the image below.
Today I’m giving you both a pattern for, and a tutorial to help you make a pair of wide-leg pants, like the ones we often wore back in the 1970’s.
In the first set of bullets, you’ll find that today’s 1970’s style wide-legged doll pants will fit a variety of tiny dolls. Please note that I’m offering today’s pattern for two different sizes of printer paper.
In the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world, they use A4 paper for printers, which is slightly narrower than American printer paper. Since this pattern also fits the Palitoy Pippa dolls, which are as popular in the UK as Topper Dawn dolls are in the US, I wanted to offer the pattern on A4 paper as well as American printer paper.
In one of my Facebook groups, I’ve asked people from the UK to help me test the A4 paper PDF version of today’s free pattern, to make sure it prints correctly. I’ve gotten very little feedback from them though. So if you’re printing the A4 version, let me know how it goes.
Does it print correctly? Does it fit well once sewn? If you’re seeing any problems with the A4 version, please leave your feedback in the comments section at the bottom of this page.
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To make today’s tiny pair of pants for 6 inch fashion dolls, you’ll need some cotton fabric.
And you need very little of it, so, it’s not a bad idea to consider using recycled fabrics! Be good to Mother Earth!
You’ll also need some 1/8 inch wide elastic. I use Elastic By the Yard, and I’ve had a lot of success with this brand.
In my video, I also mentioned Fiskars Snips (or Fiskars Stitchers), which are the best type of scissors to use for clipping teeny tiny seams. I love mine — especially when I’m making the tiniest doll clothes! They are a must-have item!
I think all of the outfits pictured above have now been posted on my website. Click here to see all Dawn/Pippa doll clothes sewing patterns. But tomorrow I’ll re-post the pants with the white short-sleeved shirt (and the jacket from earlier this week), just so we have a single page from which to download both the shirt and the pants.
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- Dawn dolls from Topper (6 and 1/8 inch or 15.5 cm)
- dollhouse-sized dolls (1:12 scale)
- Pippa dolls from Palitoy (6 and ½ inch or 16.5 cm)
- Remco’s I Dream of Jeannie dolls
- Here’s the free printable PDF sewing pattern for making a 6 inch doll’s clothes for Dawn or Pippa, using American printer paper
- Here’s the free printable PDF sewing pattern for making a 6 inch doll’s clothes for Dawn or Pippa, using A4 printer paper (for people living in the UK and many other countries)
- The tutorial for making the pants is at the top of today’s blog post
- How to do a whipstitch
- How to do a backstitch
- How to pull elastic through a casing
- How to use a needle threader
- How to do a basic straight stitch
- How to choose fabric
- How to tie a knot using a needle and thread
- How to press seams open, using a hot iron
- How to use selvage
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For anyone who would like to expand their dolls’ wardrobes, you should really check out my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course and my “Design Your Own Doll Pants Patterns from Scratch” classes on the Creative Spark online learning platform. Here’s my bio page on their website, where you can learn more.
For any class on Creative Spark, you don’t have to follow a schedule. Just sign up when you’re ready.
It’s a one-time fee for the course, and there’s no specific time limit to finish your course. You can just take your time and learn at the pace that suits you. So go check out my paid courses on Creative Spark, using this link.
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Disclaimer/Credit/Affiliate Marketing Link:
*When you click links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include Amazon, JoAnn Fabric, Etsy, and the eBay Partner Network. As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. To learn more about how my website uses affiliate marketing, please visit the website’s Privacy Policy page.
To honor the trademark rights of the doll companies mentioned in this blog post, I am including links to their websites here. Please feel free to visit their website and consider purchasing one or more of the dolls mentioned.
Dawn dolls are products offered by Topper Corporation, which once held the registered trademark for them (™). However at the time of this blog posting, these dolls are no longer in production.
Pippa dolls were produced in Great Britain by Palitoy from 1972 to 1980. Palitoy is now a defunct company, and to my knowledge the Pippa dolls have not had a revival. You can learn more about Palitoy on Wikipedia. You can learn more about these dolls at OverZone’s Pippa Dolls Archive or on the Pippa ID Parade.
Remco once held the trademark for the I Dream of Jeannie dolls, but these dolls are no longer in production. Their focus at the time of this blog post, appears to be on wrestling action figures. If you’d like to see the toys offered by Remco today, please click this link.
