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Home » Crafts » American Girl Doll Clothes Patterns to Make Isabelle’s Tutu

American Girl Doll Clothes Patterns to Make Isabelle’s Tutu

April 9, 2014 by KC Coake 9 Comments

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You know we love American Girl Doll clothes patterns around my house. I found another one to show you today!

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

This pattern is to make a tutu for your doll. I’m sure if you have any AG fans in your house, you are well aware that this year the Doll of the Year is Isabelle. She loves ballet. We thought she should have a tutu. This was actually my younger daughter Pumpkin’s idea. She wanted to make a tutu for her sister for her birthday. We found a great pattern and made a tutu that Snowflake couldn’t even tell wasn’t bought at the AG store! Of course it helped that we wrapped it in an AG box, but still, you really can’t tell that it didn’t come from the AG store. I’ll share my secrets with you, so you can make your own. You ready? Let’s do this thing!

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

Of course, you can make this tutu in any color using any tulle that you like, but if you are trying to make a knock-off of Isabelle’s tutu, you will want to select your tulle carefully. Pumpkin and I found the perfect match at Hobby Lobby. It is a shiny tulle in an ivory color. As you can see, it is very inexpensive. You will need a little more than 1.5 yards.

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

I got the pattern for making the tutu from Doll It Up in their post about Resizing a Simple Girl’s Tutu for Dolls. That post shows you how to make a tutu using a store-bought tutu or to make one from scratch. I followed the direction from scratch.

Cut a piece of tulle 14.5″ x 58.5″. Fold the tulle in half width wise.

Sew the two raw ends together as shown.

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

Open the tulle circle. Fold it in half with the raw edges together(folding it lengthwise now), while still keeping it in the circle. Fold it in half lengthwise again. Keeping the circle again as well. Your tulle should now measure about 3 5/8″ x 58.5″ (if you were to measure all the way around the circle).

Above, you can see what I found frustrating in this process. When trying to fold the second fold, the tulle has a tendency to shift and not lay close together. It took patience to get it to lay together. It is important if you want a clean finished edge.  Just try to be patient and wiggle the fabric until you can get it lined up properly.

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

With patience, you can get the fabric lined up properly. Make sure to pin well, so it doesn’t slip and move as you sew. You are pinning along the double folded edge.

Sew the double folded edge with a 1/4″ hem. This will be the casing for your elastic. Leave an opening.

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

Thread your elastic through the opening. You will want to use 14″ of elastic, but you could start with a smaller amount if you need to. I used a specialty elastic I found at Hobby Lobby because I thought it gave a more polished look. It is packaged as an oval elastic cord (affiliate link).
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Find an 18″ doll and place the skirt on the doll. Pull the elastic to the desired tightness. I made mine fairly tight so that the tutu would stand up a bit more. Just don’t make it too tight or your child will have a hard time getting the tutu on. Pin the desired length.

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

Sew the elastic. The oval cord I used was challenging to sew. It wouldn’t lay on top of each other, but would only let me sew it side by side. You really can’t tell once the tutu is finished so it doesn’t matter.

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

Snip the ends of the elastic and pull the elastic into the skirt/tutu.

At this point, I think it is a great idea to double-check that you like the fit of the tutu by trying it on the doll again. If you are happy with the fit, sew the opening for the casing closed.

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

Voila! A tutu for your doll! The color tulle that we found is a perfect match for Isabelle. It matches her leotard, which did come from American Girl, perfectly.

Cute American Girl Doll patterns to make a dress form for your dolls. This is an easy sewing project that makes a cute addition to our doll fun. 

Isabelle was quite happy with her new tutu! She decided to first give it a try on the dress form I made her.

I’d love to hear how yours goes, leave me a comment on my facebook page or in the comments below. Can’t wait to hear!

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  1. Rachel @ Architecture of a Mom says

    April 9, 2014 at 6:19 am

    Love this!! Thanks for giving me the heads up about when the post was going live. Pinned and liked on FB! Will let you know when we make our tutu–I promised my girl that she would help make it, so we’re probably going to go low/no sew. We’ll see!

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    • KC Coake says

      April 9, 2014 at 8:12 pm

      So glad you like it!Yes, working with your daughter, it might be more fun to go low or no sew. I did make this with my 7 year old though and she did fine. Of course I did most of the work, but whatever, she still had a great time. Have fun! Can’t wait to see yours!

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  2. Ana Lopes says

    April 14, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    Adorable!!! I love this doll so much! Thanks for sharing!
    Happy Easter!
    Hugs from Portugal,
    Ana Love Craft

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  3. Jen Smith Johnson says

    April 16, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    Super cute we love AG in this house too. Anytime we can make something it’s fun.

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  4. Venus Carpenter says

    November 29, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    Cute

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  5. Marilyn Z says

    January 6, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    Exactly what I needed, but I read it, the first time as needing 15 yards of tulle when my granddaughter’s quincenera only used 16 and that was a lot of tulle. I did go back and managed to see the decimal point. My eyes are old…what can I say?

    As it is, I have way more than enough leftover tulle for this little outfit. OH, happy day…I get to make some more doll clothes.

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    • KC Coake says

      January 11, 2017 at 10:45 am

      Oh my goodness, I’m glad you caught that before you bought way too much tulle! I know the small decimals and periods are an issue with my current font. I’ve looked into ways to solve it, but haven’t found a solution. I usually try to write it out so that it is clear, so sorry about that.
      Hope you had fun making more doll clothes!

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  6. gloria says

    July 8, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    where can i find l4.5 patterns for wellie dolls?

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    • KC Coake says

      July 12, 2018 at 11:58 am

      I’m not really sure. I would suggest that you do a google search. I bet you will find some. Good luck!

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