How to sew clothes for Barbie from unwanted clothes

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

Interest in doll clothes appears already at the age of 2, in a playful way, children work out complex, but necessary skills of dressing and undressing. Older girls play more complex story games. They use the doll's wardrobe items as conditions for certain social situations.

Barbie is still popular among dolls. She was originally created as a fashionista with a large number of clothes and accessories. Knowing how to sew clothes for Barbie, you can please its owner at almost no financial cost at any time.

Material and sewing tools

Since making clothes for Barbie is quite simple, there is no need to master complex patterns for constructing patterns and the basics of working on a sewing machine. The main thing is the desire to please the girl and a little imagination.

As a material for future outfits, you can use old things lying around in the closet: socks, stockings, tights, mittens and all things that have become small, especially knitwear.

From working tools you will need scissors, chalk or pencil, needle and thread. Also paper andinterlining, in order to make patterns of clothes for Barbie. It's nice to have a glue gun or just an all-purpose glue: it can be used to easily decorate clothes or even hold parts together.

General recommendations

Some tips on how to sew Barbie clothes with neat finished edges:

1. Synthetic fabrics are convenient to cut with a burner, then the edges will melt and will not crumble.
2. Synthetic edges of parts can be processed with fire (lighters, matches) or nail polish. In addition, a well-chosen colored lacquer on the lower edge of the product can be a decorative element.
3. You can glue a braid or tape on the cuts of the neck, armholes, sleeves, hem.

Before starting work, you need to wash all the things that will be used for tailoring. If a piece of clothing is sewn from several parts, then it is worth using the iron as often as possible - this will help to make the item neat and simplify the manufacturing process.

Skirts

The easiest wardrobe item to create is a skirt for a Barbie doll. DIY clothes can be created without the help of a needle and thread. The main thing here is to choose a beautiful sock or blouse with rubber cuffs. You need to lay out the selected clothes on the table, attach the doll so that the elastic is at waist level, and mark the desired length with chalk. For a more accurate result, you should use a ruler when marking. If it is supposed to process the bottom of the skirt with a collar, then add an allowance of 1–1, 5see

If there is no suitable sock or sweater with a sleeve, then you can sew a skirt from a rectangular patch. To do this, you need to spread it across the table, attach the doll with a waist line to the upper cut and determine the desired length and width of the skirt, marking the flap with chalk. If you need a skirt with pleats, then wrap Barbie with a cloth twice and cut off the excess. When sewing a narrow pencil skirt - once. Next, you need to sew the longitudinal sections, sew an elastic band on top, process the bottom section.

Blouse

Before sewing clothes for a Barbie doll based on patterns, you should learn an easier way. Even such a complex wardrobe item as a jacket can be made by applying the doll to the fabric.

For tailoring you will need a sock, or even better a golf or a sleeve with an elastic band. Attach a sock to the doll with an elastic band to the neck. Where the arms are located, make marks for the armholes, and cut them out. Put the sock on the doll, stick your hands through the holes and mark the desired length. Process the cuts of the armholes and bottom (hem, melt, varnish or braid).

From the remaining sock you need to cut out the sleeve patterns - two rectangles. Their width should be equal to the circumference of the armholes with an increase in seam allowances of 1 cm. To determine the length, you need to measure the distance from the doll's shoulder to the wrist or elbow.

Fold the resulting patterns in half lengthwise with the front side inward, cut off the upper corners from the center (fold) to the edges so that the sleeve is at an angle to the jacket, and not perpendicular. Run longitudinal seams, process the lower and upper sections of the sleeves, turn inside out and sew inarmholes.

Since you can sew clothes for Barbie without a separate pattern, you need to periodically try on and adjust. Finally, you need to adjust the neckline by sewing in the extra width.

Pants

You can complement the wardrobe of a doll fashionista with a pair of stylish pants. To make them, you will need a long sock, since it is easier to sew clothes for Barbie from knitted fabric. You can also use stockings, tights or a sleeve.

Cut the toe over the heel. Put the upper part on the doll with an elastic band up and outline the cut between the legs and the length of the legs. Remove the sock, cut out the pants along the marked lines. Turn inside out and sew inside edges to form trouser legs. Treat the lower sections (preferably with nail polish or fire).

Dresses

Patterns of clothes for Barbie are very simple and versatile. You can make a dress for a Barbie doll based on a skirt. To do this, when determining the length, you need to put on a sock higher, pulling it over your chest. Trim the bottom and process it. Leave the top as is or sew on the straps. A warm dress is made from a sweater: you just need to change the length.

Fancy dress is sewn from three parts: back, front and hem (skirt). In order to make a pattern for the top, you need to attach pieces of interlining to the doll and mark the borders, as shown in the photo above and below:

Try on the resulting details, fastening them on the shoulders and sides:

Transfer patterns to paper:

Now we cut out the details from the fabric, fold them with the front sides inward, perform the shoulder and side seams. As a hem, you can use any version of the skirt discussed above.

Even without sewing skills, you can please a child, as it is very easy to make clothes for Barbie yourself. In addition, all things will correspond to the wishes of the girl.