Free Doll Clothes Patterns You Can Find Online

If you have priced doll clothes, you know they are expensive. As much or sometimes even more than actual sized clothing, doll clothes have taken on a great amount of detail and description. You can even find matching outfits for little girls and their dolls so they can look alike. But you don't have to break your budget buying ready made doll clothes. You can find many patterns online for free. The size of the clothing varies because the size of dolls vary. The medium you make the clothing out of range from sewing, crochet and knitting.

To please your little mommy in training, you don't have to spend an arm and a leg for doll clothing. Given the small size, fabric remnants or quilter's squares might be all you need for an outfit. A great green idea would be to take old clothing and utilized the fabric by repurposing it into a dolls outfit for little to no cost at all. Doll clothing is easy to make and many patterns can be found for free on the Internet.

Keep in mind; dolls come in a variety of sizes. If you are going to make a special outfit for a little girl's doll, make sure you know the make and size of the doll you are intending to sew for. Patterns vary in size from barbie, baby doll, 18" dolls and 23" dolls to name a few popular sizes. You would hate to put forth all that effort to find out it is the wrong size.

So, if you are going to sew an outfit, you might like to start with a simple pattern. Here is a list of web sites that offer free doll clothes patterns (they vary in complexity).

Craft Freebies
Craft Freebies offers a list of doll patterns (soft and crochet) and doll clothes patterns. There are more doll patterns than clothes patterns at the site.

Crocheted Dolls and Doll Clothes Links
Over 100 links at this site. The great thing about this collection of links is that they tell you up front if there is an image available as well as the size of doll so you can click only on the size you are looking for.

Infinite Freedom
A drop waist dress pattern for free with a ton a examples showing how you can alter the look of this one pattern.

Crochet Pattern Central
Tons and tons of crochet patterns for dolls.

Vintage Crochet
Free crochet doll clothes patterns. The images are a hoot to see. You might remember these from your own childhood.

Vintage Knitting
These patterns are for Barbie and Ken sized fashion dolls. Again, this might stir up a few memories.

Doll Dress Patterns
These are PDF files for American Girl dress patterns. Each download appears to be a collection and named after the dolls.

Doll Making Site
Located on Bella Online, this site has a ton of great information as well as patterns. You will find information about adapting patterns, as well as a forum about doll making so if you have questions, you can get them answered here.

All Crafts
A smorgasbord of links to all things doll making and doll clothes patterns. Lots of different techniques - knitting, crochet, sewing...