The Katie Dress Pattern October 7, 2010 My oldest niece turned 7 in August and decided that for her birthday she wanted an American Girl doll. I wanted to help celebrate her great new doll and thought clothes would be the perfect gift. What does a girl love more than clothes? An Internet search for patterns left me empty handed. So to honor my sweet niece, I named my first dress pattern after her. As a kid, I hated that my doll clothes closed with velcro. And sweet rick rack details. Or, if you prefer, piping! These dresses are amazingly simple to construct. To print the pattern pieces correctly, set your margins to 0 and print. CLICK HERE to download the free pattern! Like this: Like Loading... Related Doll Clothes Galore!! Last August, my oldest niece decided she wanted an American Girl doll for her birthday. June 3, 2011 In "Family" Jumpsuit pattern mash-up My Ella turned 3 on Wednesday! September 26, 2014 In "Sewing" Olivia Dress Review
Sleeveless Jumper Pattern for American Girl, AG Type 18 Inch Dolls Sleeveless Jumper to Fit American Girl Type 18 Inch Dolls Clothes Patterns for 18 Inch Dolls and Bitty Baby Dolls & Costumes WebsiteSusan Kramersusan@susankramer.com Here are instructions for making sleeveless jumpers to fit 18inch (45cm) American Girl, other American historical dolls, Gotz Precious Day Girl Dolls, and dolls with similar body types. Important Note: my Corolle doll (not shown) has fabric and vinyl arms so this dress is not the best for her. You may use the pattern for yourself or gifts but not commercially. Fabric: one third yard or meter. Jumper Sewing Instructions With right sides of back and front jumper facing, sew together at shoulders. On center back side, make a 4 inch long slit down from neck edge for opening. Sew side seams back to front. Before sewing side seams add your decoration to front of jumper. Turn hem up twice one quarter inch and blind stitch. Sew a sticky tape closure at center back seam - no buttons for doll clothes played with by children, please. webmaster
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18" Doll Pillowcase Dress Tutorial To Fit AG Dolls Anny's Corner Samantha is Ready for Spring One of my most favorite things I used to do was to make patterns and create designs for my daughters dolls. Out of necessity, I sewed doll clothing through designer children's shops and craft fairs to help the budget. Now with time and two granddaughters I am returning to my roots. Last night I created this outfit and with it will begin my creating kidstuff blog. I created this for my granddaughters and to share for others to sew for their wee ones. What do you need? A Fat Quarter from a fabric or craft store60 inches of 5/6" inch ribbon for the tie strings3 pieces of decorative ribbon each 18" longThreadSafety Pin for threading the ribbon. Making the Pattern Cutting the Dress Pieces Prewash the fat quarter and ironFold the piece of material salvage to salvageCut 2 of the rectangle pattern piecesMark the fold line and the side seam markings Do not throw away your scraps set them aside for making Dolly her own matching drawstring bag. Begin Sewing
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American Girl Sundress Tutorial If you happen to be the happy owner of an American Girl doll you will agree with me that they are huge money traps. Oh, do they know how to appeal to young girls (and mothers living vicariously through their daughters!). However, you can spend mere dollars on cute little dresses, and save your cash for clothing purchases that actual humans will wear. ;o) I'm going to attempt a tutorial of how you can make a dress without having to purchase a pattern. What you need: --1/4 yard of fabric (you can use a fat quarter, but you'll have to shave a few inches off the width of the dress skirt--I've done it both ways, and it doesn't make a whole lot of difference) --coordinating thread --any extra trimmings/ribbons you might want to add --velcro/snaps/your choice of fastener--but you can skip this altogether --sewing machine, fabric scissors, pins, needle for hand-gathering, ruler Cutting: Spread out your 1/4 yard of fabric and measure an 8 inch by 24 inch rectangle--this will be the skirt. Cut that out.
Moist Chocolate-Beet Cake It’s interesting reading some of the talk regarding if the internet is ready to replace cookbooks. Sure, there are people furiously clicking around wherever they can for a chocolate cake recipe. And there are hundreds of thousands of chocolate cake recipes that you can find using a search engine. But to me, that’s not enough. I want to know why someone chose that recipe, what twists they gave it, what made the cake or casserole they were making so special to them that they wanted to share it. When I had dinner with my publisher last spring in San Francisco, we talked about cookbooks, of course. Perhaps the internet does make searching, and researching, easier, but it saddens me to see the large aggregator sites simply repositioning content all in the hopes of making a buck, just to create a profitable database. I read cookbooks and I read blogs (and write both), and the ones that catch my fancy nowadays are ones with an author’s voice in there. Related Recipes German Chocolate Cupcakes
Free - AG & 18" Dolls Pattern - Spring Dress This wonderful doll dress has many possibilities. You will learn many sewing techniques while creating the dress, slip, and doll panties. And you can select your own embellishment for the collar. These project instructions are specific to the Janome machine; however, the project can be adapted for use on other machines. Dress Patterns Download dress patterns (patterns are 100% in size). Janome Supplies Required Any Janome sewing machine Zigzag Foot A Satin Stitch Foot F 1/4 Foot O Hemmer Foot 2mm D Blue Tip needle 75/11 Janome Supplies for Embroidered Dress Memory Craft 10001, 10000, 9000, 5700 Memory Card #25 (Small Flower Designs) MC8000 Embroidery Design Gallery CD ROM (MC10001, 10000) Clothsetter Embroidery Foot P Embroidery hoop Janome Embroidery thread Janome Bobbin thread Fabric and Notions Required Fabric Preparation Print out dress pattern, and cut out the pattern pieces. Construct the Dress Note – all seams are 1/4”. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 18.
Tips For Sewing Denim Denim is a very popular fabric these days and is synonymous with jeans. Today term “jeans” usually refers to a specific style of pants, called Blue Jeans. These“rivet-reinforced” denim pants were invented by Jacob W. Origins of Denim However, given this important American contribution to the success of denim, what most people don’t know today is that denim was actually invented in France. Pont de Gard near Nimes, France Nîmes is an ancient Roman city most famous for its colosseum and aqueduct known as the Pont de Gard which stands over 160 feet high over the Gardon River and was build in the first century AD as part of a 50km system to carry water to the prosperous Roman colony of Nemausus, today know as Nîmes. The contemporary use of the word “jeans” actually comes from the French word for Genoa, Italy (Gênes) as sailors from this town were known to wear these cotton trousers. The world’s beloved “jeans” have been around for a very long time! Characteristics of denim Use sharp tools.
The Professional Association of Appraisers - Quilted Textiles Crafts | DIY Cozy Home | Page 57 Don’t miss out! Follow DIYcozyHome.com on Facebook and bring more love and life into your home. I have to admit that this type of craft is completely foreign to me. I have never used Mod Podge to put fabric on anything. But the more time I spend reading all these wonderful and crafty blogs I am learning so much and excited to try some for myself! Fore details on the cabinet, make sure to visit here: Sun Flower Lins blog. If you want to see the ultimate resource for mod podge fanatics, you have to check out this really great site, the Mod Podge Rocks Blog. Here’s a link to one of their most popular tutorials on doing fabric book covers. Enjoy…. Mod Podge Rocks Blog: Fabric Covered Books Guide {Image Credit} This looks like a totally fun project for a lazy weekend. I can think of a dozen places in our house that we could put some fun lighted letters. There’s lots of creative ways to use this project. Here’s the link to the tutorial… Home Heart Craft: DIY Lighted Letters {Image Credit} Enjoy!
fastcoexist In January, after years of building prototypes, the team finished their first pilot project in the real world. Partnering with a commercial developer outside Atlanta, in a tiny community called Serenbe, they built two one-bedroom houses, with materials that cost just $14,000 each. The goal: To figure out how to bring the ultra-low-cost homes, called the 20K Home, to the broader market. “We’re in a kind of experimental stage of the program, where we’re really trying to find out the best practice of getting this house out into the public’s hands,” says Rusty Smith, associate director of Rural Studio. “Really this first field test was to find out all the things that we didn’t know, and to find out all of the kind of wrong assumptions that we had made, and really find out how we had screwed up, honestly.” Years of architecture students, and their advisors, have spent more than a hundred thousand hours tweaking each detail of the house to optimize both the function and the price.
How to sew stars with perfect intersections Tip! (Not for the faint of heart) Be sure to check out the additional searches on the right side of the page. My name is Linda Franz and I love the Inklingo method of sewing 6 and 8 pointed stars. This is another good example of the advantages of printing on fabric with Inklingo. Print diamonds with Inklingo, cut, and sew. It is a big advantage to have cutting lines, stitching lines, matching marks, and crosshairs. Start by sewing half stars. When you join the two halves, "circle the intersection" by passing the needle through the crosshairs, one pair of seam allowances at a time. You can see exactly how I do it if you click to watch the video on YouTube.. These stars take about 10 minutes to sew by hand, start to finish! It is especially nice to have a stack of diamonds printed and ready to go in my portable sewing kit. Every intersection is perfect! Stars are fun, but Kaleidoscope Stars are even more impressive. You can "fussy cut" more easily than ever with the Inklingo No-Waste Method.
PACountryCrafts: Baby Clothes Memory Bear Pattern and Tutorial OK. I really can't take credit for this idea. A friend asked me to make a stuffed bear from the outfit her baby wore home from the hospital. She got the idea from Pinterest and it was a bad link so I can't source it. So, I had to come up with my own bear pattern. I used as few pieces as possible, but some extra stitching gives it more shape and allows it to sit. I made one from one of our old onesies first, since I was terrified to cut into that precious baby outfit. And, because I felt like it, I took pictures of the process to make a tutorial to share! You will need: ~clothing item to upcycle (or fabric) ~lightweight, iron-on interfacing ~thread ~ribbon ~fiberfill ~sewing machine ~bear pattern (available HERE) ***I have had a few people ask about sizing. Start out with the clothing item you wish to upcycle. Then, you want to dismantle it. Figure out how to fit the pattern on the available fabric. Now, knit fabric likes to stretch. Then, cut our your pattern pieces. Stuff the arms and legs.