The individual patterns are getting their own pages now, to keep the original OSFA page from getting too unwieldy.
This is the Swing Dress. Simple A-line dress that is plenty large to fit 13″ First Barbie, 12″ Darci/Jem, 11.5″ all Barbie shapes.
PDF file, make sure to print at 100%, not “fit to page”
Fold over and blanket stitch or zigzag over neck and arms.
Fold right sides together and stitch up side seams.
Fold back edges under to finish and add velcro.
More to come.
Hi Janel,
I’m getting back to you with some of the dresses that I made for the underprivileged children in our area that I ws making doll clothes for Barbie/fashion dolls that I picked up from a local thrift store. It all started when the leader of the Crossroads Kids Club was gifted a box of used dolls that had 4 naked Barbie dolls in it. She was going to hand them out to the kids as they don’t have very many toys to play with. So I took the Barbie/fashion dolls home as I wasn’t going to have young girls playing with a naked Barbie doll! And it snowballed from there. I now have used your peasant dress pattern for 5 or 6 dolls and used the shift dress for a couple. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any pictures of the dolls with their new clothes on. I didn’t do anything different with your swing dress pattern. But once I got the hang of making the peasant dresses, I changed them up a bit so that the girls that got them could tell their dresses apart right away. I used recycled fabric, but made sure that each doll was in a different fabric. Plus I made a couple with the shorter sleeves and some with the longer sleeves. The one difference that I did with the longer sleeved ones was to leave the elastic out of the end of the sleeve as I remember back in the day that for a while that style of peasant dress with long sleeves had more of a flared look to the wrist end. So I left them that way. Plus it saved me quite a bit of time as I was burning the midnight oil trying to get these dolls to the school before their last meeting for the year. I was so sleep deprived that I forgot to ask someone to take the pictures. But everyone who saw them before they were taken into the school were very impressed with how they looked. So a big THANK YOU for providing these Free simple dress patterns to help me and others to dressed naked Barbie/fashion dolls without breaking the bank! I’ve also copied this email on your peasant dress/top page.
Thanks, that’s kind of you!