Tutorial: Lazy Days skirt variations for dolls and girls

Rachel from Nest Full of Eggs posts at Oliver + S with recipes to customize their Lazy Days skirt to make a matching skirts for girls and dolls. The Lazy Days skirt is a free pattern in girls sizes. Her post gives the cutting dimensions to make 4 variations to fit 18-inch dolls – a skirt with a contrast double-thickness hem, a skirt with hem tucks, a skirt with color blocked stripes, and a skirt with color blocked stripes and a double-thickness hem. She also gives links to tutorials showing how to make all of these variations in girls sizes, too.

Click the link below for her tutorial:

18-inch Doll Customized Lazy Days Skirts, by Rachel Le Grand

[photo from Rachel Le Grand on Oliver + S]

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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