Free Printable Pattern. Someone requested an off-the-shoulder dress. I only glanced at the email and suddenly had a great idea how to do that, and in a flash of creativity, produced this. No, no, she had said “off the shoulder”.…
Here’s a free pattern in pdf format to print. This one can be a bodice to add a skirt to, or lengthen the lines to make a flattering princess seams dress. I appreciate a pattern that doesn’t involve shoulder seams.…
Printable sewing pattern to download in pdf form. There’s one for the old 1966 vintage Mattel shape, one for 1999 Bellybutton shape (which I think is most common nowadays), one for skinny Barbie Basics and one for the 2006 shorter…
It’s just a basic skirt shape with some lines marked. Years ago I cut something like this out of heavy paper using a string for a compass, and it’s come in handy dozens of times for all kinds of applications.…
This is about as medieval-looking as I need to be, and I’m sharing my pattern here in case it comes in handy for anyone else. I read the instructions about how to cut a medieval t-tunic dress the authentic historical…
Here’s my Photoshop file if it might help you make your own. Guidelines for U.S. Passport photos are here and they provide a photo template for an example. So what worked for me was to align the example photo they…
A great idea, and I looked around the internet for instructions, but nothing really clicked and gave me a clear sense that I was ready to get started. I had to mull it over for a couple days. When patchwork…
Princess seams dress I designed for 16 inch Gene Marshall doll. The wedding dress just has a large ruffle added. Here’s the printable pattern for download. Make sure to print the pdf at 100% and not “fit to page”. 1/4″…
This was the first Barbie dress I designed from scratch, many longs ago. It was by necessity and was jumping into unknown waters for me. Up until then I had been using commercial patterns to make outfits for my daughters’…
People are still finding something about this page useful! Okay. Cool. Then I’ll recreate it. Plus I want to go back and add something that I had intended to do at the time. I need this here so I can…