Easy-Peasy Jacket for AGAT Doll
Materials: 1/3 yd. fleece or flannel fabric, or piece approximately 17” X 22” or 11” X 34”.
Matching thread
Hook-and-loop tape, 7” cut to 3/8” width
2-4 buttons, any size you think looks good.
Glue stick for temporary attachment of hook-and-loop tape and buttons.
Notes before you begin:
All seam allowances are 1/4”
This pattern is designed for fleece or felt, which do not fray. There are no hems included. If you use another fabric or want hems, add 1/2” to bottom edge of jacket, front opening and bottom of sleeves.
Because the fabric used is thick and does not fray, the seams are trimmed close to the stitching to reduce bulk rather than finished, other than where the hood is attached, which may be serged or finished with zigzag to improve appearance or just trimmed.
Some fleece fabric is the same on both sides, but some may have a slightly different texture on one side than the other. If that’s the case with your fabric, pick which side you want to be outside and make sure you put the pieces together consistently.
Sewing the jacket:
- Print pattern pieces. Make sure the 1” gauge is actually 1” on the copy.
- Cut out all pattern pieces. Try to keep the bottom front and back, bottom of sleeve, front of hood and front opening edges even, because they will not be hemmed.
- Right sides together, sew right front shoulder to back shoulder. Repeat with left front shoulder. Trim seam to a scant 1/8”.
- Sew hood back seam. (The back seam is the curved, right-angle edge. The straight seam is the front opening; the S-curve is where the hood attaches to the jacket neck.) Trim to a scant 1/8”.
5. Right sides together, pin hood to jacket neck, matching edges carefully and fitting together evenly. Sew seam, backstitching at beginning and end of seam and finish with zigzag, serge or trim to scant 1/8”.
6. Right sides together, pin one sleeve to jacket, matching edges carefully and fitting together evenly. (You do not need to gather the top of the sleeve.) Sew in place. Check that the sleeve is correct and trim to a scant 1/8”. Repeat for other sleeve.
7. Right sides together, pin underarm edges together, matching beginning and ending edges exactly. Sew underarm seam, backstitching at beginning and end of seam. Trim seam to a scant 1/8”.
8. Separate hook-and-loop tape. One side will go on the inside of the right front. The other will go on the outside of the left front. (For a boy doll, you can reverse this if you wish.) Use glue stick to glue in place, matching tape and jacket front evenly. When glue is dry, sew in place, up one side of the tape and down the other. Repeat for the other side.
9. Use glue stick to glue buttons in place. When glue is dry, sew buttons down.
The jacket is finished!
Please note: If you would like to do so, please donate the amount you would have paid for this pattern to a charity that supports pediatric cancer treatment, research or care assistance in your area or worldwide. I thank you for your generosity and for not having to do the books. If you have children (girls or boys) who enjoy stories about dolls, check out my blog for children, The Doll’s Storybook at thedollsstorybook.blogspot.com or look for our books wherever you buy your reading material.
Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is available from BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. The stories are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.
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The three stories in Mariah are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.
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