Does you doll love vintage fashion? Does she want to feel stylish while visiting friends from different eras? The Time Traveler's Vintage Blouse, by Forever 18 Inches, is the perfect solution for her fashion needs! Inspired by an authentic sewing pattern from the 1940s, the blouse features a softly gathered neckline with a matching binding, a rounded hem, and a back closure that can be fastened with snaps, hook and loop tape, or authentic buttons and buttonholes. Two sleeve options are available: Option 1 features a 1940s-style sleeve with a longer length, high-cut sleeve cap, and an inverted sleeve pleat. The shorter-length Option 2 sleeve has a fully gathered sleeve cap and bottom edge with bindings, and is appropriate for periods from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. A simplified version of the blouse with a lower neckline and without the neck pleats can also be made by substituting Template C for Pattern Front A. You can even use the simplified version as a modern-day blouse. No matter which version you make, your doll will be ready for school, play, and fun times for then and now!
The Forever 18 Inches Playsuit Skirt is an authentic reproduction of a vintage pattern. It's designed to fit over the Forever 18 Inches Cat's Meow Vintage Rompers, as well as the long bloomers in the Forever 18 Inches Aloha Vintage Swimsuit. Features include a gathered skirt sewn into a fitted waistband, a front opening, and optional pockets. The skirt can close with button-covered snaps, hook and loop tape, or even authentic buttons and buttonholes. It can also be paired with any vintage blouse or top pattern, such as the Time Traveler Vintage Blouse, for a classic swing-era retro look, or worn as a classic skirt with a modern-day top for a timeless fusion of then and now. Your doll can time travel with ease and look great combining her favorite looks!
The Playsuit Skirt is available in 3 different bundles paired with the Cat's Meow Vintage Rompers, Aloha Vintage Swimsuit, and Time Traveler Vintage Blouse, to save you money.
This PDF sewing pattern is designed to fit 18" dolls such as American Girl®.
Recommended Fabrics for blouse: Lightweight natural fabrics or lightweight quilter's cotton with a bit of drape and tight weave are ideal. Examples include lawn, batiste, lightweight silk, and lightweight chambray.
Recommended Fabrics for the playsuit skirt: Natural fabrics such as quilter's cotton, seersucker, lightweight denim, or lightweight chambray. All fabrics should have a tight weave.
Supplies Needed:
Blouse:
Option 1: 1/3 yd. 45" wide fabric
Option 2: 1/3 yd. 45" wide fabric
Option 3: 1/3 yd. 45" wide fabric
All Options:
1. Matching thread and sewing needle
2. One pair of small, very sharp scissors to trim seam allowances
3. Optional: Fray Check
4. Optional: A Frixion pen or other tool for marking Dots (When touched with heat, the pen markings from a Frixion pen disappear!)
5. Cellophane Tape or Painter's Tape to protect the neck gathers
6. Three medium-sized snaps OR 5-1/2" of hook-and-loop tape
7. Optonal: 6" of 1/8" ribbon to create a tiny neckline bow
Skirt:
Fabric Requirements: Natural fabrics such as quilter's cotton, seersucker, lightweight denim, or lightweight chambray. All fabrics should have a tight weave.
Fabric Needed: ¼ yd. 45" wide fabric
Notions:
1. Matching thread
2. One pair of small, very sharp scissors to trim seam allowances
3. ¼" Graph Paper to make the pattern for the Skirt
4. Six ¼” buttons (for use with snaps only)
5. Five or Six medium-sized snaps OR buttons (to be used with buttonholes)
6. Fray Check
7. Optional: Contrast thread for topstitching
8. Optional: Two 3/8" x 6" wide strips of lightweight iron-on interfacing
9. Cellophane tape to tape the graph paper together
Skill Level: Easy & Intermediate
What You Get: One 31 page sewing pattern and one 19 page sewing pattern that you digitally download as a PDF file so you can start your project immediately! The PDF sewing pattern provides full color step-by-step illustrated instructions and full size pattern pieces. A PDF reader is required to view and print the files (example: Adobe Reader or Preview for MAC). The download link is received immediately after the transaction is complete. Print copies are NOT available.
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