Shorts for American Girl Doll

  
     Shorts 
     from a
     T-shirt 

                      A pair of shorts is always a great piece of clothing to add to your doll's wardrobe.   A pink T-shirt was an interesting piece of fabric that I had in my stash.  I had used the shirt for several other pieces of doll clothes,that you can see in previous post,  but the sleeves were left over. There was just enough fabric to make a pair of shorts for an American Girl Doll.

              

             This is the pattern used to make the shorts. The shorts are a little roomy in the legs.  The young child would find these easy to put on and take off of their doll.  The pattern is on a 1 inch grid.  As you can see on the pattern, these shorts fit an American Girl Doll.

           As seen in the picture below, the shorts are laid out on the finished edge of the sleeve. This layout make the sewing very easy with just the front and back seams,  the waistline with elastic, and the inseam. 

              This pattern will also fit a Cabbage Patch doll comfortably.

                Here are the shorts with a little ruffled halter top also made from the same T-shirt material. The T-shirt material is so very soft and very easy to work with.  It doesn't wrinkle and very forgiving for young children to play with.

                       The shorts pattern will also fit a 14 inch Strawberry Shortcake baby doll.  The shorts are slightly more roomy fit on this doll.  The pattern could be made smaller to fir this size doll. 

                       I do hope that this idea and pattern are helpful for you and your doll clothing. Please leave my a comment if you have the time and any ideas you might like to share.

             Happy Sewing!