Make Doll Clothing for Any Size or Shape of Doll Including Dolls House Dolls

You can make patterns for all kinds of dolls clothes for any doll if you begin with a custom fit sloper pattern, an exact fitting pattern for a doll's top, without any seams. Use these instructions to make custom fitted sloper for your doll, then use it to adapt commercial patterns, or clothes, or create pattern pieces for custom clothes and costumes for your doll.

Custom Fit a Torso Sloper to Any Doll

This simple vest can be made first from felt, as a test, then from a range of fabrics or leathers to make various style vests for any size of doll.

Make a Simple Removable Vest for Any Size or Shape of Doll

This basic long sleeved shirt can easily be made with a front (or back) opening. The sleeve length can be adjusted to suit your doll. Try it in a plain fabric first, then experiment with different fabrics and prints.

Use these instructions to make a custom pants sloper pattern to fit your particular doll. With your pants sloper fitted to your doll, you can adapt the sloper to custom fit a range of pants, short and culottes to the doll.

This pattern for simple doll jeans is based on a pattern drawn from a custom pants sloper fitted to your doll.

Sew these simple doll leggings for any size of doll, using the basic pant sloper pattern to cut the legging sections. You can sew these with no outside seam, or with an outside leg seam, depending on the shape of your doll.

These essential underclothes can be easily hand sewn, even for tiny dolls, if you use the right fabrics. As shown here on a 1:12 scale doll the underclothes are made from a pair of baby tights, this makes them stretchable, without worrying about them unravelling. The briefs can be made for male or female dolls, and with simpler trims the camisole can become a vest.

Make Camisoles and Briefs for Any Size or Scale of Doll

This strapless evening dress is made from a simple tube of knit fabric. For smaller dolls, like the 3 1/2 inch tall Polly Pocket doll shown here, the dress can be fitted with a bodice made from a strip of wired ribbon trim. The trim helps to hold the dress on the doll like a "twist-tie".

Although this is an easy removable dress to make for small dolls, the method can be scaled up to make dresses for dolls in any size or scale. As the dress is pulled on over the doll's legs, it is also suitable for dolls with larger than normal heads.

This is a great starter project for learning to handsew doll clothes. This simple skirt or dress can be made from 'fat quarters' used for quilting if you can find an appropriate small scale design for your doll. The skirt or dress takes less than an hour to make, even sewing by hand.

This empire waisted dress is a great staple for a doll's wardrobe. It can be made from quilting cotton as shown here, or you can use finer fabrics with a better drape. If you are working with a doll pattern like this one which has fabric gathers or pleats, use the information on Choosing Small Scale Printed Fabric for Pleated or Gathered Miniatures to help you select a suitable fabric.