More Matching Dresses!

 I also made matching blue dresses for the little girl who has an 18 inch Madame Alexander doll and a Disney Animator Tiana.

These dresses are roughly inspired by Tiana's Evening Star dress.

The Disney Animator doll dress was made using a Requiem Art Designs pattern.

The 18 inch doll dress didn't really follow a pattern. I used the bodice from the Joan Hinds Sailor dress, because that was what I had out. Any basic doll dress bodice pattern would work.

I lined it in cotton for more stability.

I think I made the skirt about 40 inches wide by 8 inches long.

I bought a new spool of ribbon for the sasses on these dresses, and it was all used up. There is maybe enough left to make a matching headband.

I actually like the smaller blue dress better than the 18 inch one. The proportions look better. But it's all just meant to be fun to play with. I think I achieved that.

Matching Dresses!

 I made matching yellow dresses for the little girl that I know. One is for her 18 inch Madame Alexander doll, and one is for her Disney Animators Tiana.

I've already detailed three of these sailor dresses on this blog. They are made with a sailor dress pattern from Joan Hinds Heritage Doll clothes.

The Disney Animators doll dress is made with a Requiem Art Designs pattern.

The dresses aren't exact matches, but I think it's cute. It's harder to do the really fancy details on the smaller dolls, especially if you don't have an exact pattern.

Pattern Review: Joan Hinds Sailor Dress

 I did a lot of sewing this weekend!

I was inspired by the new Disney release to make some Tiana inspired dresses. These are not exact matches for the AG versions. It was much more fun to use what I had in the house and see different combinations come together!

I was lucky that I went to the thrift store on Friday and found a big piece of plain yellow fabric that I used for two of the dresses. It was only $2!

The pattern that I used was the sailor dress from Joan Hinds Heritage Doll Clothes. 

I bought this book used. The pattern pieces were not in the book, they were on a CD. I was able to get the patterns off the CD with the help of the library, but a lot of laptops no longer have a CD player, so be aware of that if buying the book used.

I made the skirt 1.5 inches longer than the pattern because it looked to me like Tiana's work dress skirt hits her at mid-thigh.

I also added a sleeve cuff by cutting strips of fabric 1.25 by 5.25 inches.

Other changes that you could do to make the pattern closet to the work dress would be shortening the top a little bit and shortening the sleeves about 1.5 inches so that they are 3/4 length.

The collar is only on the front of the dress and does not extend around to the back of the dress.

I had so much fun picking out different color combinations from my stash. It was hard to stop!

I like all of the combinations. 

Claudie is my model for Tiana. She is so cute, and so is the Tiana doll.