Tips for sewing doll clothes

[delbelcoure]

Sewing for dolls offers different challenges than sewing for people. As the doll size gets smaller the challenges increase. As I've shifted my doll interests from 22" dolls to 12"-8" dolls, my frustration has increased! I've been trawling the net for more tips on small doll sewing and I thought I'd share my results.

This site is a great, thorough, multi page extravaganza of tips
http://www.sew-fashion-doll-clothes.com/
Peristroika has free patterns and lots of sewing tips
http://www.perestroika.ca/html2/sewing_tips.php
I especially like the sock tips, which are, at their heart, really about sewing with knits
http://www.perestroika.ca/html2/sockmain.php
These next two sites offer some good ideas
http://www.dollymaker.com/sewing.htm
http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/986/1/Tips-and-Tricks-for-Sewing-Doll-Clothes-101/Tips-and-Tricks-for-Sewing-Doll-Clothes-101.html
If anyone has any other links, feel free to post them. I need all the help I can get
Susan

[maywong]

Thanks for the tips.

[landwhale]

Ooooh! Thanks so much for those links. They're super helpful esp since I have really only been focusing on the small Obitsus and neglecting most of my BJDs.

[roguewolf128]

I don't know if this helps but when sewing short skirts, I use ribbon and pleat it. It works for my 16 inch doll, the inch and half wide is the perfect length for a mini skirt. You don't have to hem the bottom, just roll hem the ends, pleat, and put a fastener of some sort to hold it on her waist. Hope this helps!

[DinobotDen]

Two words: Fray-Check. It will save you much pain and breath.