Monday, October 13, 2014

Free American Girl Pattern: Remake of Samantha's BeForever meet dress

Samantha was my first doll, purchased for my 21st birthday as my first action as a 'real adult', so I was rather sad when she retired in 2007.  But she's been rereleased this fall!

However, I can't say I'm a fan of her new meet dress.  It looks skimpy and just off compared to the Edwardian patterns I've seen.  So I made her a new one based on a pattern from 1905, so it's even mostly period.


The dress is made of pink dotted swiss with eyelet ruffle at the sleeves, neck, and hem.  I used a scrap of burgundy ribbon in my stash for the waist sash and matching hair bow.  The sash ties into a giant bow in the back.

The pattern is the housedress featured in Le Semaine de Suzette 1905 issue 1 for Bleuette.  I've resized the pattern to work for American Girl dolls.

1 comment:

  1. I think they didn't do period because the period fashions weren't very pretty, no offense. I think that outfit isn't very nice and prefer the beforever version.

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