🪡 18-Inch Rag Doll + Complete Clothes Wardrobe — Sewing Pattern
Important: these clothes are made for the rag doll in this pattern. They are not designed to fit shop-bought 18-inch dolls of any brand.
One 18-inch doll · 11 removable outfits + slippers and sleep mask · 3 hairstyles · Detailed illustrated instructions · Instant PDF download
Most doll patterns give you a doll in a dress. This one gives you a doll and a chest of drawers.
She has a round, three-dimensional head, a soft shaped body with centre seams, legs that let her sit, and little hands with thumbs. And she has a wardrobe: dresses, a collar blouse, a pinafore, dungarees, a top with trousers or shorts, bubble rompers, pyjamas, slippers and a sleep mask — all of them made to come off and go back on again. That single difference is what turns a doll from something to look at into something a child plays with, and keeps coming back to.
And the wardrobe costs almost nothing to keep growing. A doll dress takes so little fabric that a fat quarter makes one. Every scrap you have been saving because it was too small and too pretty to throw out — this is what it is for. The doll is the project; the clothes are what you make on a Sunday afternoon for years afterwards. ✨
✔️ 18-page illustrated instruction booklet
✔️ Full-size pattern pieces for the doll and every outfit (US Letter and A4)
✔️ The 18-inch doll: round head with a chin dart, body with centre seams, legs that sit, hands with thumbs, embroidered face guide and 3 hairstyles (pigtails, buns, long hair)
✔️ Bandeau dress — a first project with no pattern piece
✔️ Day dress with 4 sleeve options: sleeveless, short, puff or long
✔️ Collar blouse with a Peter Pan collar and long sleeves
✔️ Long occasion dress with an embroidered yoke and an optional ruffle
✔️ Pinafore with a bib pocket, and a simplified version
✔️ Peasant top, trousers and shorts
✔️ Dungarees with bib pocket and heart detail
✔️ Bubble romper: with crossed straps, or with a buttoned bodice
✔️ Pyjama set with slippers and a sleep mask
✔️ Cutting chart and materials for every outfit
✔️ Printing and pattern-assembly guidance
Skin: any plain, tightly woven cotton — cream, tan or deep brown, the pattern is the same
Hair: worsted yarn in any colour
Small-scale prints only. A doll dress shows a fragment of a pattern, so a large print reads as a blur on it. Tiny florals, fine gingham, small dots, ticking stripes and plain textures all work.
This is a scrap project in the best sense: mixing prints across a wardrobe is what makes it look like a real one rather than a set.
Doll: ½ yd skin cotton, 14 oz stuffing, 1 ball of worsted yarn, embroidery floss
Each outfit: about one fat quarter or ¼ yd, plus velcro, small elastic or snaps (listed per outfit)
The doll is straightforward: a few shaped pieces, a stuffed body, an embroidered face, and clear diagrams for attaching the arms, legs and head.
The clothes are small, and small sewing asks for patience rather than skill. The seams are short, the curves are tight and the armholes are little — nothing in them is difficult, but everything in them is fiddly. Sew the doll first, then start with the bandeau dress rather than the dungarees.
⚠️ Please Read Before Buying
This is a pattern for the handmade rag doll included in it. The clothes are drafted to fit that doll and are not intended for shop-bought 18-inch dolls of any brand. If you are looking for clothes for a doll you already own, this is not the right listing.
📥 Instant Digital Download
This listing is for digital sewing pattern PDFs: 3 files, a booklet and the pattern pieces in US Letter and A4. No physical doll, clothing, fabric or sewing supplies will be mailed to you.
Print at 100% or Actual Size — never Fit to Page. If the scale is wrong, the doll comes out the wrong size and none of the clothes will fit her.
Colours may look slightly different from one screen to another.
