Welcome to Simple Kids: A Fun DIY Project for Doll Skirts

Hi everyone, today we're going to make a skirt for your doll. It could be a Barbie doll, a Bratz doll, or even a fashion doll like Lip Dll. We'll use an old pair of pants as the base material and turn them into a beautiful skirt.

To start, we need to reverse the pants themselves by putting them inside out. This will give us the correct shape and pattern for our skirt. Now, let's take a look at the pattern that we can download from our website. The link is right here at the top of the screen, and you can also find it in the description below. You can use this pattern to create your own custom skirt for your doll.

Now, let's get started by tracing around the skirt with a black marker or a piece of chalk. Don't worry if your traces aren't perfect - we're leaving a little bit of wiggle room for any mistakes that might happen while cutting. We want to make sure that our cut is accurate and easy to work with.

As you can see, I'm leaving a small amount of space between my tracing lines so that when I cut along the edges, I can make any necessary corrections. This way, we can avoid any mistakes and ensure that our skirt turns out perfectly. And don't worry if your traces aren't perfect - once we sew the skirt together, nobody will be able to see any imperfections on the inside.

Now that we have our tracing, let's take a closer look at the pattern again. As I mentioned earlier, you can download this pattern from our website and find it in the description below. If you're having trouble seeing the link, don't worry - just click on the description, and it will take you straight to the download page.

I've made a small mistake here on the corner of my skirt, but that's okay. We can easily fix that by shaving off a little bit of fabric. Now that we have our traced pattern, let's move on to the next step.

To sew this skirt together, we'll start by folding the bottom and top portions of the skirt in half. Then, we'll throw them out so that they meet in the middle. Next, we'll do the same thing at the top and bottom of each piece before sewing them together. We'll use a sewing machine to sew these two pieces together, but if you're doing this with a child or without pins, you can use an iron instead.

I'm using my new sewing machine to demonstrate how easy it is to sew this skirt together. I've pinned the fabric in place so that it won't move around while I'm sewing. As I sew, I'll remove the pins and continue working on the skirt until it's complete.

Now that we have our sides completed, let's take a closer look at the finished skirt. As you can see, we've created a beautiful and intricate design for our doll's skirt. The top and bottom portions are matching perfectly, and the sides are even and straight.

This is my doll, Neb, wearing her brand new skirt. She looks adorable, doesn't she? And the best part is that you can adapt this pattern to fit your own doll, regardless of her size. You can shrink or enlarge the pattern to suit your needs, and with a little bit of patience and practice, you'll be creating beautiful skirts for your dolls in no time.

So, what do you think? Are you ready to give this DIY project a try? Don't forget to check out our website for more patterns and tutorials, and join us next time on Simple Kids for another fun and creative project. Bye for now!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to simple kids.com hi today we're going to make a skirt for your doll your fashion doll it could be a BL dll Barbie doll or lip dll or even a Bratz I'm going to take this piece of uh pants these are the bottom of pants um my son's pants actually and I'm going to reverse uh the pants themselves put them inside out and now here I'm going to trace um what would be the actual skirt now this pattern you can download from our site and the link is in here um at the top of the screen and you can also see the the the link in the description I'm going to take a black marker but you can also take a piece of chalk if you want to and I'm going to trace around the skirt now these traces that I'm making are not perfect they're not 100% the same as the pattern I'm leaving a little bit of space because while I'm cutting I can make mistakes so in this manner I can cut along the the whole rim of the of my drawing here and if I make mistakes and I can correct them that's why I leave a little bit of wiggle room so that whenever I cut uh the skirt out then I can actually correct those little mistakes that we make usually as we're cutting now the mistakes are also not going to be shown if you make any because once you saw this it's going to be sewn on the top portion of the skirt and on the bottom so we will be kind of folding uh the cloth around so nobody will be able to see any mistakes that you may have made on the inside of the skirt now this pattern again can be downloaded from our website and you can see the link right at the top and if you cannot see the link at the top you can always click on the description deson and the description will give you the link uh for where to download this pattern now I made a little bit of a mistake here on the corner so I'm just shaving off a little bit of of the skirt this is um basically what I was talking about at the beginning now I have my skirt and now what I will do if I were to sew this by hand I'll fold the bottom just like that and then also throw out and I will do the same thing at the top before I begin sewing the two pieces I will do this for the top and the bottom of each piece and I'll do that by hand now I have my sewing machine yep I just bought a sewing machine so what I'm going to do is put um these little pins right here that you can see so that I can actually sew and my cloth will stay um in intact and it will not come apart as I'm sewing now what you can do is if you don't want to do this with pins if you're doing this with a child if you're doing it yourself but you don't have pins you can always iron use an iron and iron out the actual skirt so that it will keep the shape uh that you see here while you're actually uh sewing now I I am removing the pins as I'm sewing for the first portion of it and then um I'll keep the rest of them on because the machine went through it without a problem you can see here this is what we want to achieve and I'll do this for the top and the bottom and then I'm going to S the sides and show you the end result which I think that you guys can get it from what I'm saying here in the video you will saw the top and the bottom just like this and then what you will get is something like this you will actually get the skirt that you can see here and you can see that the top I have sewn from the inside and the bottom bottom I have done the same thing and then I went ahead and uh took care of the sides now this is my doll her name is a neb and she will be the model for a lot of the different clothing that we're going to be making for our do the pattern again for this skirt can be downloaded on the link above and what you can do is to adapt this particular skirt for your doll whichever size she might be you can shrink or enlarge the pattern and hopefully I I think it should work out for you and your do I hope you have fun making this craft and I'll see you on the next video bye\n"