Make a dress for your 18 inch American Girl® doll with easy to sew patterns from Oh Sew Kat! The Sunshine Dress is a versatile pattern. Read on to see how to make it without the sleeves! Make a sle…
10 sewing tips to be more efficient when you sew doll clothes for yourself or craft fairs using easy sewing patterns by Oh Sew Kat!
Make diy doll clothes for your 14.5 inch dolls like Wellie Wishers, Style Girls, and Glitter Girls for Valentine’s Day. Easy to sew beginner level PDF doll clothes patterns are available in t…
Sewing Tutorials and Pattern Hacks for doll clothes by Oh Sew Kat! Sew your patterns in new ways with these tutorials.
If you are new to American Girl doll world- let me tell you that January 1st is always a super exciting day. That is the day that American Girl ® reveals and begins the sales of the new Girl of the…
It’s that time of year again! Time to shop for your favorite quilters and sewists with the Thimble’s holiday gift guide! First, if you aren’t already subscribed to our newsletter, now is the time—we’re sending out daily emails for our annual 12 Days of Christmas countdown. Each day is a different product marked down for the holidays to make your gift shopping experience a little easier. It’s also a great opportunity to snag some of our favorite quilting and sewing supplies for yourself! Supplies are limited and we’re already halfway through the 12 day celebration, so don’t wait to join the newsletter! Now for the gift guide. This year we divided our selections into three categories: I Like You, I Love You, and I’m Obsessed With You. Are you looking for something small like a stocking stuffer, a white elephant exchange, or a host gift? Check out I Like You (under $20). I Love You is the next step up in gift giving (up to $50). Finally, if you choose anything from the I’m Obsessed With You list, you’re really sending a strong message ($50+). We encourage you to share this list with loved ones and let them show you how much they care!! 😉 I Like You Stash ‘n Stores It’s Sew Emma’s Oh Sew Organized Stash ‘n Stores are an excellent way to keep all your tools organized. We have them in a variety of fun colors and in two different sizes: the large and the mini. Shop Stash ‘n Stores. Fresh Fat Quarter Quilts Blogger Andy Knowlton created Fresh Fat Quarter Quilts to inspire quilters to break into those FQ bundles they’ve been saving for something special. The twelve fresh new designs will have you stash busting in no time! Need some fat quarters to bulk up your stash? Browse our fabric bundles now! Get Fresh Fat Quarter Quilts. Bladesaver Thread Cutter The Bladesaver Thread Cutter breathes new life into your old 45mm rotary blades so you don’t have to throw them away. Use the included mini screwdriver to open the “flower,” pop your used blade inside, and then slot the flower into the magnetic case to use the Bladesaver to cut chain stitched fabrics. The case doubles as a carrying case to keep your Bladesaver safe during travel. Get the Bladesaver Thread Cutter! Modern Holiday Table Runners We find ourselves returning to Cluck Cluck Sew’s Modern Holiday Table Runners every year. The patterns are fun and easy to follow, and many of them use scraps so it’s a great collection for scrap busting. Zirkel Magnetic Pin Holder The Zirkel Magnetic Pin Holder is even niftier than it looks. Drop a pin on it and it will automatically position the pin so that the head faces out. The starburst pattern you see above is its default position, which means no more accidentally stabbing ourselves with the pointy end of a pin! We carry Zirkel Magnetic Pin Holders in 6 different chic colors—explore them all here. I Love You Creative Grids 6.5” x 24.5” Ruler You can’t go wrong with gifting a Creative Grids ruler. Designed by quilters for quilters, they have lots of nifty features like enlarged, easy-to-read numbers and an edge designed for measuring seam allowances. If you have to choose one, we say go for the Creative Grids 6.5” x 24/5” Ruler for its versatility. But we recommend checking out our Quick Guide to Quilting Rulers for some other great suggestions. The Tabletastic Pattern Book Series We LOVE the Tabletastic pattern book series at Thimbles. Tabletastic!, Tabletastic 2! and Tabletastic 3! each contain 20 fantastic patterns for table tops and runners that are fat quarter and scrap friendly. This series has become such a staple in our store that we usually have several kits available that feature a pattern from one of the books. You can explore the currently available Tabletastic! kits here. Shop the Tabletastic! series. Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Thread Bag Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Thread Bag is more than just a handy storage case you can use for traveling (say, to one of our Embroidery Sew Ins or Sleep in Your Own Bed Retreats?). Each pocket has both a zipper and a strip of ultra suede across the top. Organize your threads in the pockets, then thread a strand from a spool and pierce the needle through the ultra suede. Now you can access whichever thread you need without removing the spool! Shop Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Thread Bag. Olfa Deluxe 45mm Ergonomic Rotary Cutter Designed to reduce hand and wrist fatigue, the Olfa Deluxe 45mm Ergonomic Rotary Cutter is sharp enough to cut through 6 layers of fabric. The contoured ergonomic handle is comfortable to hold and use, and a dual action squeeze trigger easily locks the blade open for comfort or closed for safety. Shop the Olfa Deluxe 45mm Ergonomic Rotary Cutter. I’m Obsessed With You Olisa Mini Project Iron with Trivet The Oliso Mini Project Iron packs the punch of a full size iron in a compact design you can use at home and while traveling. It has so many features that elevate it above your standard clothes iron. An LED light illuminates the precision tip, making it easy to pinpoint the areas you’re working on. Its compact size means it’s relatively lightweight and easy to hold, and it offers lots of safety features, like a 30-minute vertical and 10-minute horizontal standby mode with safety shut-off. Each Oliso Mini Project Iron also comes with a Solemate™—a silicone trivet that hugs the Diamond Ceramic-Flow soleplate to keep it protected during travel, or to place the iron down while hot. Do you love Tula Pink? We also have the Oliso Mini Iron with Tula Pink and the Oliso Iron Plus Pro Tula Pink! Shop all Oliso irons. IronMatik - Jaipur Premium Ironing Mat & Steam Glove IronMatik’s Jaipur Premium Ironing Mat and Steam Glove upgrade your ironing experience. Perfectly sized to accommodate any space, the ironing mat features 7 layers to protect your surfaces and measures 25” x 39”. The Steam Glove features 9 layers to protect your hands and is water repellant. Shop IronMatik’s Jaipur Premium Ironing Mat and Steam Glove in several colors. Arrow Sewing Hydraulic Chairs Every quilter and sewists’ favorite sewing chair is now at Thimbles! We have three different fabrics available and ready to shop now—the best-selling Sew Wow, Sew Now, Sewing Notions, and Bright Buttons. Have your eye on another print from Arrow? Let us know and we’ll arrange to have the chair shipped directly to you. Each chair comes with an adjustable seat, lumbar support, 360-degree swivel base, and a secret compartment under the seat cushion for storing notions. Shop Arrow Sewing chairs. Do you feel ready for the holiday season? 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Butterick 4309; ca.1966; One-Piece Dress. Semi-fitted, slightly A-line dress with contrast of self bias shaped collar has squared contrast or self yoke with button trim and pockets in side front seams. Sleeveless or short sleeves. We Sew Retro Blog Patterns from the Past FashionFallback allthepreciousthings.com.au [insert your photos of this pattern made up] [insert your username, and make sure your preferences allow for people to contact you via e-mail. Do not list your email address here!]
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Hello all, I'm Kelly from My Quilt Infatuation, and it's my turn to share a tutorial in the Oh, Sew Baby Series! This quilt is one of my favorite go-to quilts to make when I need a fast and fun baby quilt. It's easy to put together, simple to vary, and is fat quarter friendly. That's a win in my book! You'll need at least nine fat quarters for this quilt. Trim your fat quarters to 20.5 inches. Then from each fat quarter, cut four strips, 4.5 x 20.5 inches for a total of 36 strips. You'll only need 35 strips for the quilt. I prefer more fabric variety, so I used more prints. That's totally up to you. As long as you end up with 35 strips, you're good! This quilt really is a snap to put together if you just remember a couple of important "rules." First, one full strip length is equal to five strips sewn together in the opposite direction- This is going to be important to keep the proportions of your quilt correct. Secondly, the quilt will measure 48 inches in width, which equals two full strip lengths, plus two "short sides" by 60 inches, which is three full strip lengths. When I make this pattern, I always like to play around with the layout until I am happy with it, then take a picture. Trust me, the picture can really help if your layout gets messed up. (ahem, pets and children anyone?) I chose to lay my strips out into thirds. Notice that the top third of the quilt has two horizontal strip sets, plus two vertical strips? The other two thirds each only have one horizontal strip set, but seven vertical strips (remember, five vertical strips are equal to the width of one horizontal set). Once you've decided on your layout, just start sewing your strips together in sections! ps- I'm a quilting rebel and I do NOT press this until the very end. Shhh...don't tell the quilt police! Just join your sections together and, voila! Your quilt top is finished! The important thing to remember with this quilt is to have fun with it. I like to think of it as a puzzle, but you get to decide where the pieces go! The result is a modern, random look that appears more difficult than it really is. This quilt is also really easy to modify to suit your size needs. Bohemian Charm is another example of a quilt I've made with this pattern. This one measures 60 x 64 inches, so it is three full strips in width by three full strips, plus one "short side" in length. I did not choose to construct this one in thirds, and it's actually tough to tell where the different sections are, which I love! The finished quilt measures 48 x 60 inches. A perfect size for a baby, but still big enough to be useful for years! I hope that the next time you need a quick baby quilt, you'll give Strip Tango a try, and I hope that you'll hop over and visit me at my blog home, My Quilt Infatuation, for lots of modern quilts, more tutorials, and my weekly link party, Needle and Thread Thursday! I want to thank Kelly for stopping by and sharing this fun quilt pattern with us! Be sure to check out her blog, My Quilt Infatuation to see all of her lovely work!
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Use easy to sew PDF sewing patterns from Oh Sew Kat! to make last minute gifts for girls. DIY doll clothes for 18 inch dolls like American Girl and Our Generation for last minute gifts.
Sewing Tutorials and Pattern Hacks for doll clothes by Oh Sew Kat! Sew your patterns in new ways with these tutorials.
Easy Up! Jumper PDF Sewing Pattern for 18 inch Dolls The Easy Up! Jumper is an easy sewing pattern with lots of wow. Fabric covered straps and a cute side contrasting pleat let you mix and ma…
When you purchase a PDF sewing pattern from Oh Sew Kat!, you get more than just the look you see on the pattern cover. With a few tweaks and changes, (called pattern hacks), and some differen…
Use fun batik fabrics and Oh Sew Kat! pdf sewing patterns to make truly unique, one of a kind doll clothes.
Sewing Tutorials and Pattern Hacks for doll clothes by Oh Sew Kat! Sew your patterns in new ways with these tutorials.
Did you or someone you know get a new WellieWishers doll for the holidays? Or an 18 inch doll like American Girl dolls? The chills of January provide the perfect excuse to stay in and sew up a new…
Sewing doll clothes can be a pretty quick project as a general rule. The pieces and seams are small, they don’t take long to cut out, and they don’t use much fabric. However, if you wan…
Try something new!! Choose a bold, large scale fabric to make doll clothes for your 18 inch dolls like American Girl with easy sewing patterns by Oh Sew Kat!
The School Bell Blouse Sewing pattern is easy to sew and creates a long sleeve doll top with bell sleeves and a fun peplum.
Sewing Tutorials and Pattern Hacks for doll clothes by Oh Sew Kat! Sew your patterns in new ways with these tutorials.
Today I was sewing up these fab glitter jeans as a pattern test. (They are the new CowGirl Ranch Chaps from an amazing new designer, 18onMain). This pattern is so well done, with such i…
Stacey Graves, of Travellers240, did a wonderful, summery version of the Popsicle Top and Four Season Skirt for 14 inch Hearts for Hearts dolls. Stacey’s whimisical style shows off with the s…
Here are some more pretty Easter dresses to inspire your sewing as we get ready to leave March behind and head right into April and spring!! Soft pastels and bunnies are in season! These dresses we…
When you purchase a PDF sewing pattern from Oh Sew Kat!, you get more than just the look you see on the pattern cover. With a few tweaks and changes, (called pattern hacks), and some differen…
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Welcome back to Oh Sew Kat! Designs- where you can find an endless stream of ideas of new ways to sew the PDF sewing patterns for dolls I offer. Today’s post will show you a simple patt…
This is a lot easier than it looks. The finished quilt measures 54″ x 68″. I used 40 Moda Jelly Roll strips to make this patchwork top (without the borders). I’ve seen pictures of this…
Easy to sew 3 piece Picnic Play PDF digital sewing pattern for 14 inch dolls like Welliewishers™, Hearts for Hearts Dolls® and Ruby Red Fashion Friends® dolls.
It looks like Shirley Fomby had a ball with this new and easy tee shirt pattern from Oh Sew Kat! She has a wonderful Etsy shop full of adorable outfits so your Wellie Wishers dolls will be the best…
The Bloomer Buddies is already a very, versatile pattern. With three lengths for both the top/dress and bloomers, you can mix and match to create an entire wardrobe for your doll. Take …
Try this easy pattern hack to make an Easy Up! Jumper for your doll with a back opening instead of pull on feature.
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When sewing dolls clothes, you are usually using small pieces to begin with. Even dolls like to have a nice, clean finish to their clothes. One way to do this is to fully line the bodice. You can…
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This is a lot easier than it looks. The finished quilt measures 54″ x 68″. I used 40 Moda Jelly Roll strips to make this patchwork top (without the borders). I’ve seen pictures of this…
I've been in my formal living room turned sewing room for about 6 months now. It is so nice to have room to move about, and I'm staying a lot better organized since I have places to put stuff. The only thing that was bothering me was the lack of a theme. When I was younger, I was so matchy-matchy and theme-oriented with my decor, but that kind of disintegrated once I started a family. I figured since this is my space, I could decorate it in a way that suits me perfectly. Since I *am* the Scientific Seamstress, a lab theme seemed to be the natural choice. Don't worry - I didn't go too crazy...no frogs in formaldehyde or radioactive isotopes. I just incorporated the colors and images that made me happy back in my science days. The result is a fun work space where I can conduct my sewing experiments. I installed a shiny black lab bench under the windows. I got the piece of countertop for $5 in the scratch and dent room at Ikea. I put teloscoping legs in the front and cheap brackets in the back. It is actually 3 feet off the ground because I like to sew standing up (makes it so much easier to go back and forth to the computer or cutting table). I turned the desk that I was using for the sewing machines into a cutting table. It is soooo nice to have a functional place to cut! The large mat is from JoAnn (got it on sale online). I had to cut it down a little bit with aviation shears, but it works just fine. I decoupaged the sides of the table with pages from an old Merck index (if I really want to know a chemical structure, I can google it), and then painted a fun soybean plant (the subject of my graduate research) on one side. On the other side, I installed two GRUNDTAL knife magnets from Ikea. Not only do they hold my scissors and rotary cutters, they keep little metal things like seam rippers and tiny screwdrivers close at hand. I spray painted two desks with Eden Green by Rustoleum. To me, this is the quintessential "Biology Department Green" I remember from college. At the time, I thought the color was so pukey and ugly, but now I find it quite lovely. Above my work desk are a few things that make me feel happy and loved. The wall quilt was made by four good friends and given to me for my birthday last year. Next to it are my B.S. and Ph.D. diplomas. My dad made the frames and the cool thread rack on the adjacent wall. Above that is the Scientific Seamstress sign my friend Cathy gave me last month...she is such a doll! To the right of the quilt is a thimble collection my mom gave me - I'll take that over dead bugs any day! Vintage glassware makes for great little vases. You can find pieces on Etsy, or just hang around the doorways of retiring professors' labs. Lots of storage in the shelving next to the desk. Most of the bins are full of scraps, of course. I glued some chalkcloth to the wooden bin that holds various stabilizers. Now I have a place to write formulas or derive equations when the need arises (totally kidding...I keep my math to rudimentary geometry and algebra). Bessie, my only employee, is OSHA compliant in her lab coat. The shelving on the opposite wall holds my reagents, equipment, and some books. Notice my copy of Girl's World by Jennifer Paganelli? It is a must-have for the sewing library! I purchased some beakers to store my buttons, zippers, embroidery floss, etc. They were a bit of a splurge ($10 each from a science supply store), but they are absolutely perfect. The 2000 mL fits my shelves nicely, and the tops are open so I can just reach in and get the item I am after. Finally, I needed some "artwork" to hang over the beaker shelves. When I worked in a lab, sales reps were always giving us neat posters with science info (and of course their logos). I decided to make my own "Periodic Table of Sewing Elements" poster. Each element letter has a sewing term underneath (and some boxes even have a texture or pattern to correspond with the term). Periodic tables usually have groups of different colored boxes to classify the elements, but I decided to make mine all different colors to look like a patchwork quilt. One of the terms is the same for both chemical elements and sewing elements...can you figure out which one it is? Click for larger image Geek out your own sewing space with a Periodic Table of Sewing Elements! Click the link above to download the small file for printing at home in 8 x 11.5" format. Click here to download the large file (20 x 30 format, can be printed online or at a local print shop). Note: Some eagle-eyed readers found some out of place duplicates in the original table. I've made the corrections and swapped out the files :)!
Avis, over at the Oh Sew Tempting blog, started a fun idea: a chicken run. Chicken pincushions will be criss-crossing their way around the globe. Who knew chickens were migratory birds?! She made a…
It’s a halter top. It’s overalls. It’s HalterAlls! This quick and easy pattern will soon become your doll’s favorite. Easy on and off with elastic and simple tie…
It’s Tester Tuesday!! My tester group had a great time with the Playground Pants pattern. Everyone was surprised how easy they were and how quickly they went together. Make cute pants f…
Make a dress for your 18 inch American Girl® doll with easy to sew patterns from Oh Sew Kat! The Sunshine Dress is a versatile pattern. Read on to see how to make it without the sleeves! Make a sle…
When I was finalizing the PDF file for my free pattern, (The Four Season Skirt- Did you get yours yet? It’s my free gift to you when you sign up to receive the Oh Sew Kat Chat! Click here.),&…
If you have a tee shirt pattern for your doll that you just love, it’s so easy to use that same pattern in a new way and make a super cute, tee shirt dress for her!! Make a tee shirt dress fo…
Use Oh Sew Kat! pdf sewing patterns to make 70s inspired doll clothes for your American Girl dolls like Julie Albright and Ivy Ling.
It’s summertime!!! You know can already make a lot of different looks with the Sandbox Shorts pattern, but here’s a tutorial to show you how to put the pockets on the inside…
It’s summertime!!! You know can already make a lot of different looks with the Sandbox Shorts pattern, but here’s a tutorial to show you how to put the pockets on the inside…
