Dress for Barbie: patterns and master-class

How to sew a dress for Barbie with my own hands? How to build a pattern and simulate the style of the attire? Which cloth and finishes? The answers to these and other questions can be found in this article.

Barbie is out of competition

Maiden love for Barbie has been living for decades. Times change, children grow up, but the general favorite remains at the height of popularity. And even now, on the shelves of toy stores, you can meet many other dolls, for example, the heroines of such famous cartoons as "Winx" or "School of Monsters", each girl necessarily has Barbie, or even one. And as it usually happens, babies are very fond of dressing them in different clothes. But, unfortunately, not all parents can afford to buy expensive sets of dolls with a wardrobe. However, each mother can make some wonderful outfits for the pet of her child. Moreover, making a dress for Barbie is quite easy. In addition, the process can attract a child, which will make the work even more interesting. In addition to a wonderful pastime with her daughter and positive emotions, such an occupation will contribute to the development of the girl's taste and imagination, and in the future it will be very useful to her.

What you need for sewing

It is easy to guess that for the production of clothing you will need a suitable fabric, sewing accessories, scissors, a centimeter tape for measuring dolls, paper and a pencil for building a template. You also need to think about the decorative elements. If it is a ball gown for Barbie, then here as anywhere there will be appropriate all kinds of sequins, beads, laces, ribbons and flowers. To leave a smart outfit, special attention should be given to the choice of fabric. It will be interesting to look combinations of guipure and a shiny satin, velvet and gold brocade. However, there are great opportunities for flying fantasy.

Everything is grown-up, or we measure it

As in the case of sewing clothes for people to make a dress for Barbie, you need to take measurements from the pupa. To build a pattern, you need to measure the width of the shoulders, the volume of the neck, chest and waist, and calculate the depth of the neckline and the distance from the shoulder to the extreme point of the breast protrusion. Also, separately to measure the width of the back and chest, because these values in Barbie vary greatly, and the front of the bodice should be made somewhat wider than the back, and the breast should be measured both over its convex part and above it. So, all the measurements are made, and the next question is: how is the pattern of the dress for Barbie built? In fact, it is only needed for the upper part, because the skirt of simple models is made from fabric strings collected on a string.

Basics of constructing a pattern of the top of the dress

All measurements are recorded on a sheet of paper and proceed to build a template on the cardboard. Why on the cardboard? Because after you sew one outfit, it's unlikely that you will be able to stop at it, and each new dress can be created on the basis of the existing stock. First, two perpendicular lines are drawn on the cardboard: the vertical is the height of the bodice, and the horizontal measurements are taken of the measurements taken. The first of these is the shoulder line. Further from this line along the vertical measure the distance of the height of the chest and spend another perpendicular, on which the volume of the breast is laid, divided by the width of the back and forward. Next comes the turn of the waist line and the corresponding measurement. To draw a waist line, down the vertical from the shoulder line measure the height of the gear for the front panel and the height of the backrest for the back. These lines may not coincide, since the doll has a large chest, and that the dress for Barbie is perfectly seated and not pulled, it is correct if the front of the bodice is somewhat longer.

Dress Modeling

The next stage is darts. Since the front part and the backrest are immediately drawn on the drawing, only the front of the bodice is used to draw darts. To do this, on the chest line we find the middle and lift it up to the shoulder line. From the intersection point in both directions, we set aside the shoulder width measurement and a quarter of the neck circumference, and approximately 0.5-0.7 cm wide, from both sides, we tuck from the shoulder to the chest. Gutters also need to be made from the waist line to the breast line - about 0.5 cm wide: two in front and two in the back, symmetrically with respect to the center. And it is not necessary to sew them and cut the fabric, they can be beautifully laid with drapery folds. Next comes the turn of the neck and armhole. If you plan a dress for Barbie without shoulders, then the design of the pattern should be made only on the lines of the waist and chest. Also, based on such a pattern, it's easy to make a workpiece for a one-shoulder attire or a deep neckline on the chest. As a rule, any dress is fastened on the back with Velcro, so the back is made of two parts. On the created patterns you can not only sew, but also tie a dress for Barbie crochet.

Assembling parts, or sewing dresses

When the templates are ready on the cardboard, they can be cut and transferred to the fabric, and then proceed directly to the assembly of the parts. So, how to sew a dress for Barbie? To begin with, all the details must be cut out of the fabric, not forgetting the seam allowances. After they begin to stitch the details: at the beginning of the dart, then the shoulder and side seams. The next stage is the processing of the neck. To do this, you can use slanting bake or sequins. In the same way, it is easy to treat armholes if they do not plan to sew up sleeves.

After the upper part is ready, they begin to make a skirt. As already mentioned, in simple dresses it can be a strip of fabric, gathered on a string and sewn to the bottom of the bodice. However, there may be another option - for example, a lace skirt with a large number of tiers. To do this, on a strip of fabric, a little priboryvaya, sewing lace in several tiers. Usually, the skirt has only one seam at the back, in which a slit is left for sewing the velcro fastener. Velcro make a width of about half a centimeter and a height for this cut and the whole bodice.