Just a quick tutorial or tip on making a doll size head piece for Halloween – Cat’s ears, Devil’s Horns, crowns… etc
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Free Barbie doll clothing patterns and how to sew tutorials for historical clothing, fashion dolls etc. Repainting dolls videos etc.
Free Printables: Animal, pirates and ninjas halloween masks for fashion dolls!
Went on and designed a few silly masks for regular playscale fashion dolls like Barbies to print at home 😀
Or, just for fun, or to tease your guinea pig (oh don’t tease guinea pigs…) or print out 50% to get dollhouse scale.
I know they don’t look like much, but took hours for me to make them… I may refine them later and update, but then again, there’s only so many free hours in a day so I thought better share now as otherwise I might forget…
Pirates masks! Ninja masks! Kabuki Mask!
Free printables pirates and ninja masks for playscale fashion dolls, barbie, action figures
Animal half masks! Black cat, tiger, bat, dog, lizard and ofcourse, pig and a fly.
halloween masks for dolls, animal masks, cat mask, bat mask dog, pig, tiger, fly, lizard. Free printables!
Hero masks. Plain hero masks, just add glitter 😀
Free printables hero masks for playscale fashion dolls
//not for resale or Re-upload! Feel free to share with link to the original, please 🙂
Print on thicker paper/cardstock. The original is postcard size, approx 10x15cm /4×6” so make sure you’re printing 100% and NOT fit to page otherwise you’ll end up with huge masks! Unless, you want 1/3 masks for SD BJD, then choose to print Fit to page, it might work, let me know! 😀 Though the print quality may be very poor if printed bigger, I re-scaled these to allow easy print in their intended size.
Don’t have a printer?
Made them available as higher resolution greeting cards on Cafepress, should you not have a printer, or maybe someone might find this a nice idea for a combined birthday card including a little gift. The card is folded so you can still write your message there and it won’t get cut 🙂 And honestly, if I’d go and print these to sell, the price would be much higher than cafepress cards…
How to make?
Tutorial coming later! Craft should be easy enough to make without instructions, but there are a few tips and tricks I’d like to share to make sure you won’t get frustrated with this tiny craft – it can be tricky making delicate little masks, so hoping to make video tutorial next week-end.
Stay tuned on this blog and Merineiti youtube channel!
Ps. you can always wish for a craft!
Pps. Yes, I think I’m whimsical enough to make a few celebrity masks available (to print at home only) to your dolls to wear 😀 which celebrity would you want as a miniature mask?
Vampire Costume for Fashion Dolls – video tutorials and free pattern!
Video tutorials for Vampire Halloween costume for fashion dolls are up!
Here you can find and print out the Free Fashion Doll Clothes Pattern 3 piece vampire costume: corset, cape, skirt.
Part 1: How to sew a cape:
Part 2: How to sew the (mermaid) skirt:
Part 3: How to sew the doll corset
I might later make a video on how to sew neater/finer version of the corset as this one is for felt/pvc faux leather or fabrics that do now fray.
Bonus video of accessories may also be broadcast later this month, so Subscribe to merineiti youtube channel to not miss out 🙂
How to sew cape for dolls – Halloween costume tutorial for fashion doll
How to sew Halloween costume cape for fashion dolls and figurines – yes, the size works for 1/6 scale action figures as well.
I tried to make this as simplified as I could… You can make it no-sew cape too, and use fabric glue.
This is part 1 of 3 for How to make vampire halloween costume for fashion dolls youtube video tutorials.
Parts 2 and 3 are for how to sew doll corset and skirt. Possible accessories video may come later this month, so feel free to make requests if you’d like to know how to make something halloween themed 🙂
Here’s the free pattern for Vampire costume for Barbie and Monster High doll costume.
You can also use the same tutorial to sew the Fashion Doll Witch cape pattern from last year.
Free fashion doll clothes patterns: Vampire halloween costume!
As promised, the winner of the Halloween costume poll gets a pattern!
The winner is… VAMPIRES!
This is part 1 of 3 (+extra 4 for accessories may appear later in the month) Other parts will be published during weekend!
Subscribe to merineiti youtube fashion doll Tutorials
Wanted to go for a more traditional, Victorian / Dracula / hammer horror movies inspired vampire costume for fashion dolls.
The costume patterns are for the cape, mermaid/vampire skirt and corset!
The corset top has three sizes, one for the traditional 11inch wasp waist doll, modern barbie doll and monster high size.
The skirt is barbie size, but can be fitted for smaller figures if you take in the seams.
The cape is pretty much universal, but you may wish to cut the neckline a little smaller for tiny dolls.
If you want a slightly longer cape, you can print the Witch cape pattern from last year!
Maybe tutorials for Halloween Accessories will be inspired, so please subscribe blog / merineiti youtube channelto not miss out  🙂
PATTERNS UNDER THE CUT:
How to sew Ruffled skirt (for dolls) video tutorial
The video is finally up! So many things went wrong, original footage didn’t work, recording app didn’t function (I usually record with phone,  it’s better than my laptop) and what not… Quickly wrote closed captions in English, in the case the sound is an issue, so click on CC to enable/disable the captions 🙂
Written version of how to sew ruffled skirt for fashion dolls with lots of photos here.
Feel free to like, comment and subscribe, the next video will be up 1st of October and it is HALLOWEEN special! Â (Well, most likely I try to upload the video on 29-30th to allow time to fix any issues and write captions, but it will be available on this blog on 1st, youtube subcribers may see it before that)
Video Tutorial: How to sew Marie Antoinette dress for Monster High doll
The pattern is in previous post Free Rococo dress pattern for monster high doll
The tutorial for fashion doll skirt in this post.
Feel free to comment and ask questions, English is not my first language so there may be mistakes.
Monster High goes Marie Antoinette – Free doll dress pattern
18th Century, the age of enligtenment and frills… Now your monster high (and maybe Ever after high dolls, if you add a little extra around to each piece) dolls can enjoy the style as well! Here’s a few of the dresses I’ve made with the pattern:
Custom Repaint and rerooted monster high doll with handmade Marie Antoinette dress
The above is made with thin, flowing fabric, like cotton voile/ batiste, if you want spoonflower fabrics, it’s closest to their cotton lawn. You need Fat Quarter to make the full skirt like in the picture above.
Short version of monster high rococo pattern modeled by Operetta
You need to add a little bit more seam allowance, if you use heavy/stiff  fabrics like the bridal sateen above. It was a left over scrap from a georgian corset I made, a little too heavy for a doll but at least scraps don’t go waste. This time I cut the skirt shorter.
Free pattern at merineiti.wordpress.com and the miniature regency print fabric available in Merineiti spoonflower shop
Now this is made from custom miniature fabric, after historical printed cottons from Georgian / Regency era, it’s available to buy in merineiti spoonflower shop currently in white and cream yellow. You only need the test swatch piece to make this! The skirt will however be shorter and less full than the pattern suggests, you need fat quarter for that, but I’ll explain how to adjust to that in the video tutorial (coming soon on Merineiti youtube channel).
This miniature historical print fabric is available to buy – only need a test swatch! http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/3101224
Please follow the blog to keep updated when the how to sew this rococo princess dress post is published, as well as tutorial for the skirt part. And maybe later I’ll show you how to make monster high doll shoes as well.
If you are on youtube, you might want to subscribe to Merineiti youtube channel to get the chance to see the video tutorial for monster high dress before it’s on the blog!
Also available tutorial for the ruffled fashion doll skirt here.
Free fashion doll rococo dress pattern under the cut! Continue reading
Can you make a wig for a doll yourself?
Handmade fashion doll wigs tutorial
Of course you can! If you don’t enjoy rooting your Monster High CaMs, need wigs for your Ellowyne and other dolls, you can try to make something yourself! Here’s a few links I have found useful!
This pinteres board about how to make doll wigs is great to start with.
Here’s one youtube tutorial – if you’re good with glue…
If you are better with crochet, you might want to out this Mohair doll wig tutorial.
My first tries aren’t that good… so patience! The black/pink one featured in this post is a mix of different styles, and still in progress – you can’t see but it still has a bald spot in the back, and isn’t yet cut to style. I’ll try to remember to snatch some pictures when I get back to working on it .
I’d also love to see wigs you may have done, and if you have any useful tips and maybe links 🙂
Witch hat and cape – Free Doll size Pattern
Halloween is near! It’s still time to make costumes… for dolls!
Here is an easy sew (or even no sew if you’re good with glue) pattern for a sixth scale fashion doll. The cape can cater to more dolls, the hat is patterned to fit Barbie size head. You can attach a ribbon to make it sit on top of bigger dolls head, or over a hairdo.
You need:Â Thin craft felt (or just paper!) for the hat, some ribbon, and fabric for the cape.
For putting things together, either needle and thread, or fabric glue.
Craft felts on amazon – get the felt on this one, not foam –
fashion doll cape and witch hat pattern
Print out the pattern at 100% with no margin (should fit full A4). Sorry about scruffy lines, I was in a hurry to post this before Halloween… just cut it smooth…
Or, if you don’t have printer, the pattern pieces are quite simple, so you might try to draw your own freehand with your doll as a size guide.
The seam allowances on the hat are small (0.6mm)
If your cape fabric frays, you want to glue or sew around the edges to stop that. If you find fabric that doesn’t fray, or you like the fray effect, all you need to do with the cape is cut it out, and attach a tying ribbon on the top edge. Remember to make it long enough so it’s easy to make a bow.
The hat, cut the pieces out of craft felt. sew the straight edges together to make a cone.
Attach the lover edge of the cone into the brim. You may need to cut the little slits, or stretch the felt a little to make it fit.
You can attach them with fabric glue, or sewing. Hand stitching recommended. You may also try to make a hat with colored paper, if you don’t have suitable fabric/felt at hand!
I know I’m not really good at explaining… And there are lots of doll heads that might want a witches hat, so maybe I’ll try to make a little video tutorial on how to make these in other sizes and how to attach them.
Or is there one already? I found this one that is making Monster High witch hat with paper.
If there is doll hat tutorials / patterns available already, please let me know!
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