Barbie Month 1 - Basic Skirt

Hello everyone and welcome to the first post for Barbie month!

Incase you missed my previous post, all this month Ill be sharing patterns I have designed based on drawings from Miss L.

Some will use the rubber band method (If you have used some of my barbie patterns before, you would be familiar with this) and some do not. There will be a lot of great items to make for Barbie, and any little one (or big one too!) will have a blast playing with them. I hope you enjoy these patterns. Don't forget, they will all be on my RAVELRY page too, so feel free to share photos there. I love seeing what you guys make!

Wardrobe Item No.1 - Basic Skirt

A staple for any Barbie wardrobe is the basic skirt. Super simple to make and can be done in under 30 minutes. This skirt uses the rubber band waist method, where you crochet the first round AROUND the rubber band.

You will need:
1 rubber band that fits snug around your dolls waist.
4ply (fingering weight) yarn in main colour, and a small amount of the same in a contrasting colour.
3.75mm hook

1. Join the yarn to the rubber band with a sl st. sc around the rubber band 24 times, join.
2-10. sc in each stitch around, join
End of main colour and join contrasting colour with a sl st.
11. sc in each stitch around. Finish off and weave in all ends.

Skirt is complete. Of course it is very easy to alter the length of the skirt to your own choosing. This pattern is a great starting point for making your own Barbie wardrobe.

Barbie Month - Free patterns everywhere!

Hello lovlies.

For a few days now, my eldest, Miss L (10) has been drawing Barbie some new clothing. She has asked me if I would use her drawings to make some crocheted clothing for her dolls. Of course, with a sweet request like that how could I possibly say no! She has some really great ideas, and some pretty crazy ones too, but that's all a part of the fun!

Turns out she has a heap of fabulous ideas, in fact enough for a months worth of Barbie clothing. So that's what we're doing! Starting on April the 9th and running for the rest of the month, Every day I will be releasing one pattern for an article of Barbie clothing or accessories, all designed from ideas Miss L has drawn for me! I hope you are as excited as I am :) There is just something so special about handmade dolls clothing, and something even more special watching your little ones playing with them.

So here is your heads up! Come back on the 9th and follow along for this huge Barbie wardrobe release!

Carrot Dress - Free Barbie Pattern

Well, I guess you can see this dress is inspired by the humble carrot. Actually the inspiration came from the fact that the orange and green were sitting beside each other on the shelf lol! Either way, we now have a super cool carrot dress! Like the rest of my gowns this one is also started by crocheting around a rubber band. The ones I use are 2-ish inches, but just check and make sure that the one you have slides up Barbie and fits snugly over her bust. This would look cute in many colour combinations Im sure.

In American terms.

You will need
DK weight yarn in 2 colours. I use carrot orange and bright green.
3.5mm hook
1 rubber band that fits your doll.

scInc - 2sc in the same stitch

the entire dress is worked in continual rounds, place a stitch marker at the start of each round to keep your place.

1. Join your yarn around the rubber band with a slst. 24 sc around the rubber band.
2. sc in each stitch around (24)
3. Repeat 2. (24)
4. *3 sc, sc2tg* Repeat 3 more times, 4sc in the last. (20)
5. *3 sc, sc2tg* Repeat till end. (16)
6. sc in each st around (16)
7 - 8 Repeat 6
9. *3 sc, 2sc in the next* Repeat around, sc in the last 2.
10. Repeat 9, sc in the last.
11. sc in each st around
12. * sc 2, scInc in the next st* Repeat around
13 - 17 sc in each st around.
sl st to next and end off orange.

Join Green.
1. ch1,* sc, sc, extended sc* Join.

 To make an extended sc, instead of inserting your hook into the next sc st, insert it into the sc directly below the next sc stitch. Complete sc as normal. This gives the stitch a tall point.

2. ch2, hdc in each st around.
3. *sc, ch7, sk1* Repeat around. This creates the fringe. Sl st to first sk to join and finish off. Weave in ends.

Barbie Dress - Christmas Party Ruffles

Yes, I know I said Id have more done by now, But just after i wrote the last Barbie post, I found myself in a very dark place emotionally. I struggled to do normal things let-alone crochet and it kind of got put on the backburner. I'm sorry it took me so long. Ill also get the top hat pattern done this week, I know alot of you are waiting for it!

Todays dress just happened. I have a basic half idea of where Im going, and I grab colours and just crochet and see what happens. If a row looks ok, Ill write it down. So most of these are kinda made up on the spot as Im going. There is no stitch count because honestly, for things like this it really just does not matter if you have a few extra or a few less. Hope you enjoy this post. As always, Id really LOVE it if you made something you could add it to Ravelry as a project, Id like to see what you create. Other then that, go nuts. Just remember, credit where credit is due, if your selling them, a link to here to my page on Facebook (mammathatmakes) or something would be nice.

Christmas Party Ruffles Dress

Ravelry Page Here

DK weight yarn in red and white
A rubber band or hair elastic that firts snuggly over your dolls bust
4mm hook

BRACKETED INSTRUCTIONS ARE DONE IN THE SAME STITCH!

join yarn to rubber band with a sl st.

22sc around the rubber band, sl st to first to create a circle.

Ch2. hdc in each st around, join

ch2, hdc in each st around, join

ch2, hdc, hdc2tg, hdc x 3, hdc2tg, hdc x 3, hdc2tg, hdc x 3, hdc2tg, hdc to end. Join.

ch1, sc around (you can choose to join these rounds or use a stitch marker to continue until the sc rows end)

sc in each st around, ch1

hdc in each st around, join to ch 1

Ch2. hdc in each st around, join

Finish off and weave in ends of red.

Join white, ch2, hdc in each st around, join

Ch2. hdc in each st around, join

ch2, hdc in each st around, join

ch2, hdc in the same stitch. 2hdc in each st around, join

ch5, hdc in the same st, *ch3, (hdc, ch3, hdc)* Finish with a ch3 and sl st to the 3rd chain of the first ch5.

Finish off and weave in ends.

This pattern is currently UNTESTED

Barbie Wardrobe Collection

Barbie Wardrobe. Round-UP

Garden Party Dress

Christmas party Ruffles Dress

Movie Night Dress and Bag

Carrot Dress

Flowie Dress