DIY evening dress for doll / Diy Vestido de Gala para Muñeca

Did you know that making clothes for Barbie-style dolls is a much more versatile hobby than it seems? From beginners to experts, anyone can immerse themselves in this world full of fashion and style. There are collectors of these dolls who even sport recreations of the style of misses, models, royalty, artists, etc.

You can really recreate anything you can imagine on this scale. Today I present a post about making a Ball Gown for a doll of my daughter's, called Draculaura, from the Monster High collection, which she has kept as a souvenir from when she was a child. My wish is to do it with Barbie-style dolls, but in this post I started with what I had.

I must confess that today's project has completely captured me, perhaps because it reminds me of a time in my life when I had many Barbie dolls, I had a little house, a convertible car, a pool, furniture, her friends and also Ken, everything that was fashionable in the 80's I had, and it's a shame that I progressively gave everything away.

Today with some experience in sewing, I'm excited to make clothes for these dolls, and today I bring you this Draculaura Evening Dress Tutorial.

Dado que la muñeca con la que voy a trabajar, ya tiene una falda entre su vestimenta, la retiré y tomé la medida de su cintura. Igual puede tomarse la medida con cinta métrica. Otra medida es el largo que deseo hacer la falda de tul.

Tengo un cuadrado de tul de 40 x 40 cms. Doblo dos veces, y en la esquina de los doblez, marco hacia abajo 20 cms con la cinta métrica y la tiza de sastre, hago esto de extremo a extremo como se ve en la imagen.

I cut out the previous mark. In the corner I cut that edge a little, just because it will be the waist of the doll. I open the piece where the circular shape of the skirt can be seen perfectly, and I also open from one edge towards the center.

I open the center that I cut, and with needle and thread I make a wide straight seam and then I gather it until I reach the waist measurement.

I make a waistband just like the one the doll had, I made it a little wider. Now I insert the edge that I gathered into the waistband, sew and then sew.

I also close the opening I made in the previous step a little. This was necessary to gather the waist at the time, but now I can close it until there is a free space for the doll to enter.

On the waistband that is already included in the tulle skirt, I sew some badges, with needle and thread, that is, by hand.

I was excited to choose this option of badges, it has been a long time since I used them. Normally we see them on party dresses, we hardly see them on everyday clothes anymore, but they are a good option to close the pieces and not be noticed.

To decorate the tulle skirt, I made some unstructured flowers, using circles of the printed fabric, which I burned the edge with a tinderbox so that it wouldn't fray.
Then, I folded the circle in an irregular shape to form the flower, and sewed it by hand. I made as many as I considered necessary to my liking, and in different sizes. This is the part that took me the longest.

For the doll's black dress, I took the measurements from the doll itself, marked and sewed the sides and the top and bottom hems. The result was a short dress and then I repeated this same process but to make a long dress, which would serve as the background for the tulle skirt. I made this decision at this point, I was going to leave it with just the miniskirt, but it looks more elegant if the background dress is long.

This is how the tulle was missing, it is a thick and firm tulle so we can see the skirt with a lot of structure and stop. You can see the short dress, and the long dress that I liked the most, both for its elegance and also because it covers the doll's pink boots.

To complete the outfit, I took a couple of fabric flowers that I made for the skirt, and sewed them to a strip of fabric, to gather the doll's hair with this accessory in combination with the dress.

I loved the result, the doll changed completely, now her clothes look like haute couture.

I thought of the design of the party dress considering that Draculaura is a vampire girl and I suppose that wearing black suits her personality very well. I'm sure I'll continue creating more outfits for Draculaura in the future.

I hope you liked this tutorial, I have a new hobby, since I really liked making clothes for dolls. Although for the next projects I would like to buy some Barbie style dolls, since I have to give this doll back to my daughter, who told me that she would leave her dressed like this because she liked it so much.