Let's Sew Doll Clothes part 4

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This week we are continuing with our first sewing project, the doll shorts. In fact we are finishing the shorts! So if you are following along give yourself a big pat on the back for finishing your first sewing project!

Again I do apologize for the horrible camera angles. I will figure out where to put the camera for decent angles one of these days.

Our first step today is to add the casing for the elastic and then add the elastic. I did decide to use 3/8” elastic instead of the 1/2” that the pattern calls for. For one I was out of the correct size but also I do prefer the narrower for this scale. It is a small change but I think it does make a difference.

We also did the top-stitching for the “fly” front. I showed you my favorite way of transferring the markings for these types of situations. You can use any thin clean paper, even some of the excess pattern paper from between the pattern pieces.

Here is a photo of how I had the needle/ fabric set up for this stitching.

And here is one showing how close I was to the edge to sew the extra line of stitching on the edge.

 

 

 

The last step is to sew a button onto the waistband to close them up. I like to knot the thread between the pairs of holes because that way if the thread breaks you won't loose the button.

Next week we will be starting the t-shirt.

 

Let's Sew Doll Clothes part 3

 

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This week I start off by trying to show the basic parts of my sewing machine and how to thread it. I do apologize for the bad angles. I actually filmed the first part multiple times trying to get a better angle.

Then we move on to the sewing of our shorts. The first step is to do some basic marking on the fabric. I used this marking chalk, I love mine and have had it for at least 20 years.

Then on to the sewing we only do a couple of seams and I did struggle with where to put the camera. If anyone has any ideas for me to try for camera placement let me know. I know the angle this week is not great, just the best I could come up with. Remember I live alone so no helper to hold the camera and my tripod only has certain angles and heights it can be set at.

For hem we did a very simple folded up hem with no edge finish. This will work fine on this garment and has the advantage that it won't add any bulk. On later projects we will do some more “proper” hems.

Because of the camera in my way I did make a bit of a mistake on the crotch seam but that allowed me to show you how to fix it. So it was all good in the end.

If you have any questions be sure to ask me.

See you next week.

Let's Sew Doll Clothes part 2

 

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This week we are going to open up our pattern envelope and look at all the contents. I spend some time going over both the instruction page and the pattern pieces. We talk about the meaning of some terms and where to find information on the sheets.

Then we end this week's video by cutting out the pieces for our first project.

I am sorry I kind of forgot to take any pictures I will try to do that better in the future.

If you have any questions be sure to ask me either in the comments here or on Youtube or on the Facebook page.

Let's Sew Doll Clothes part 1

 

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I am back and doing videos again and I want to finally get the series on sewing doll clothes to you. I know I started a series on this topic a couple of years ago, life kind of got in the way. If you want to learn a bit more about what happened I wrote a blog post on my miniature blog a while back. You can find that here if you are interested in that.

Now on to sewing doll clothes.

Today we are just looking at the pattern envelopes and at some of the tools you will need to sew some doll clothes.

I know there is a lot of information on the pattern envelop and sometimes it is hard to know what is important and what isn't. Hopefully by the time this series is under way you will feel confident in looking at the envelope and understand all of the information.

As for tools/supplies, You will need access to a sewing machine, it doesn't have to be a fancy one. There are a lot of inexpensive machines out there that are fine to learn on. My machine is not an expensive one and it does just fine.

I will go over the basics of how to use the machine as we go along.

You will also need access to an iron and ironing surface (usually an ironing board). If you want your clothes to look nice you will need to be able to iron them, especially the ones made of woven fabrics.

You will also need- fabric scissors, paper scissors, pins, tape measure, seam ripper, thread to match your project and bobbins for your machine. I forgot to get out a marking pencil but we will also need that.

If you have any questions be sure to ask me. I will do my best to stay on top of answering all the questions.