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Sewing Tutorial: Child’s outgrown swimsuit becomes a doll’s swimsuit

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Tutorial: Child's outgrown swimsuit becomes a doll's swimsuit

Tutorial: Child’s outgrown swimsuit becomes a doll’s swimsuit

With summer’s end, many of us are donating our daughters’ swimsuits to charity.  After all, they’ve seen a full summer of use and by next summer they’ll be outgrown.  ??? from XOXO Grandma has a brilliant idea for putting that old swimsuit to good use.  She turns it into a swimsuit for an American Girl doll!  She shares a tutorial showing how she does it.  She used the free Leotard Basics pattern by Lee & Pearl, but you can use any doll’s one piece swimsuit pattern for this.

Click below to go to her tutorial:

Summertime clothing for an American Girl doll – Swimsuit, by XOXO Grandma

[photo from XOXO Grandma

Looking to make more clothes for an 18 Inch American Girl style doll? Check out these sewing patterns we found on Etsy.

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