{"id":9535,"date":"2014-01-14T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/?p=9535"},"modified":"2019-08-01T10:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:50:47","slug":"18-inch-doll-skirt-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/01\/18-inch-doll-skirt-tutorial.html","title":{"rendered":"18-inch doll skirt tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friend Rachel<\/a> is back with a fun little doll skirt project that can be made from an Oliver + S pattern. This sewing project could be fun to make together with your daughter or granddaughter. And who doesn’t love sewing patterns that serve more than one purpose? You might be surprised which of our patterns Rachel used for this cute little skirt! Thanks so much, Rachel!<\/em><\/p>\n

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This doll skirt happened by accident. Let me give you a little bit of background and tell you the story.<\/p>\n

For Christmas my girl got her first 18-inch doll and I got excited to start sewing doll clothes for it. She has her own fabric stash because she likes to play with fabric, too. She has some special fabrics from the store that she picked out, but she also sometimes gets pieces from my abandoned sewing projects. For example, she inherited some yellow cotton and gray linen pieces from my failed attempt at making a reversible bucket hat<\/a>. (I added interfacing to places where it wasn’t suppose to go and couldn’t make it work, so I abandoned it. Oops.)<\/p>\n

We have an 18-inch doll dress form and we have fun together designing different outfits by pinning fabric to it. One day, from her fabric stash we grabbed the abandoned brim piece from the failed bucket hat and wrapped it around the waist to make a skirt. And you know what? It looked like the perfect little skirt! It just needed finished edges and a closure. So that is how this skirt came to be. It is a super quick and easy project that uses only a small amount of supplies.<\/p>\n

Here’s how you can make your own 18-inch doll modified circle skirt with bias trim and Velcro closure all the way down the back. And it can be made to be reversible!<\/p>\n

The Pattern Piece<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pattern comes from the reversible bucket hat<\/a>\u00a0 which is from the Oliver + S Little Things to Sew<\/a> book. You will need the bucket hat brim, size Large (pattern piece 7a): print out pages 5 and 6, tape them together, and cut out size Large. Place this pattern piece on top of a larger piece of paper, trace it, and add one inch to the bottom. Now you have your new pattern for the doll skirt.<\/p>\n

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Supplies Needed<\/strong><\/p>\n