Fancy Dress for American Girl Doll

What you need

• 1/4 yrd of velvet fabric (or crushed velvet fabric)
• 1/3 yrd metallic or other special occasion fabric
• 1/3 yrd liner fabric
• velcro

How to make the Dress

1. Download free Liberty Jane Tank Top pattern

2. Cut the neck line pattern a little bigger and cut 1 1/4" off the bottom hem on the pattern.
    Then follow tank top instruction for assembly. Just don't finish the bottom hem.

3. Cut a rectangle 9 1/2" x 43" (or whatever width fabric is) from metallic/special occasion fabric
    Cut a rectangle 9 1/2" x 43" from liner.

4. Double hem the long side of the metallic/special occasion fabric (1/4" up then another 1/4" up)

5. Double hem the long side of the liner fabric

6. Sew gathering stitches on other long side of  metallic/special occasion fabric and gather to length
    of tank top hem (all around from back to back)
    Repeat for liner fabric

7. Layer metallic/special occasion fabric and liner fabric and sew to bottom of unfinished tank top.
    Make sure you have Tank top and metallic/special occasion fabric right sides together, then liner.

8. Sew short ends of metallic/special occasion fabric right sides together.
    Repeat for liner.

You are done !!!

Music books for American Girl Doll

See my other Music tutorials

Book Covers, just click on picture to download PDF file




Book pages, click to download PDF file (each pdf contains 2 pages, one for front and one for back)
These pages can be printed double sided, they are perfectly aligned on my printer but each printer is a little bit different and it might not fit 100% on your printer


Printing 3 double-sided sheets will give you a nice sized book

 

How to make the books

1. Download and print cover page on white card stock

2. Cover cover page with self adhesive vinyl (optional)

3. Download book pages, you can select from blank, piano or guitar
    Your book page download pdf will contain 2 pages,
         one front side with frames and
         a backside without frames

4. Print 3 sheets  (with front and back side printed)

5. Cut out along frame and staple to book cover. Fold in half to form book.

Reversible Horse Blanket for American Girl Doll

What you need

• 1/2 yrd flannel of either one or two colors
• small piece of vecro or snap

How to make the horse blanket

1. Download pattern here

    For private use only, this is copyrighted by me, Read Creations !!!
   Make sure you have page scaling set to none !
    All seams are 1/4" if not specified otherwise

2. Cut a 1 1/4" x 1 1/2" rectangle from outer and liner
    Sew 3 sides right sides together, leaving a short side open
    Cut corners off, just don't cut the thread

3. Turn right side out, top stitch

4. Cut 1x liner and 1x outside blanket from pattern, put right sides together
    Put flap from step 3 between the two blanket layers on the front.

 

5. Sew all around, just leave a 2" gap to turn
    Cut small slits into the inside curves and little triangles on the outside curves.
    Just make sure not to cut the thread

6. Turn right side out, top stitch all around

7. Add soft velcro piece to flap and hard velcro piece to opposite part of blanket

You are done !!!

Sports for American Girl Doll

Just click on the picture and you get to that tutorial and its' patterns.

Teakwondo

Ballet

Rock Climbing

Bikini

Swim suit / Leotard

Leotard

Ice skating

Dog sledding

Snowboard

Skis

Gymnastics

Archery

Taekwondo for American Girl Doll

What you need

• white cotton fabric
• black cotton fabric for the neck cuff
• cotton fabric in the color of your belt
• very heavy stabilizer (iron on)  (for belt) 
• transfer paper for dark fabrics (optional for logos)

How to make the pants

See instructions here
If you want 7/8 pants like in the above picture, shorten the pattern by 1" (or more if you like)

How to make the top

1. Download pattern here

    For private use only, this is copyrighted by me, Read Creations !!!
    Make sure you have page scaling set to none !

2. Sew shoulder seams together (1/4" seam as everywhere else as well)

3. Add sleeves

 
4. Cut 2 strips 1" x 6" of black fabric
    Fold strip in half lengthwise
    Open and fold on short side in 1/4", then refold. This should give a nice finished end.
    Repeat for other strip

5. Align nice end of strip with back side of shirt (Part C), right sides together.
    Sorry the blue fabric pictures are from the scrub tutorial

 6. Sew on all the way to the front tip
    This picture shows you how far to sew and also the cut
    from the next step.

7. Cut a small cut from the V-tip to just short of your seam straight down
    (make sure you don't cut your stitches), see above picture

8. Fold inwards
    You can see the cut, we made in the last step
    This picture has already the other cuff from next step

9. Align other strip finished end with the top end (Part B) and sew right sides together
    Stop sewing just before you reach the front cuff

10. Fold inwards and tug cuff behind

11. Top stitch all around

12. Cut off excess cuff fabric and zigzag all rough edges

 

13. Hem sleeves with  1/4" hem

14. Zigzag sides, then sew side seams, but only up to 1 1/2" from the bottom

15. Fold seam apart and top stitch bottom 1 1/2"all around

16. Hem bottom with 1/4" hem

17. Add velcro

18. Print your logo on transfer paper and iron on shirt (optional)

How to make the belt

1. Cut a strip 38" x 2" from your color of fabric

2. Cut a strip 37" x 1 1/2" from the heavy stabilizer.

3. Iron stabilizer onto fabric leaving 1/2" of fabric on either end and 1/4" on top and bottom

4. Fold up 1/4" on top and bottom (long side), iron

5. Fold in 1/2" on either end, iron

6.  Fold in half length wise and iron

7. Top stitch all around


You are done !!!