Make a Santa suit using my Funky Fur American Girl Doll Clothes Patterns.

I was looking in my fabric stash the other day and came across some lovely bright red velvety fabric and some white panne velvet with silver stars and I swear I could hear them shouting ‘Christmas’ at me.  At this time of year, anything that is red and white conjures up images of Santa and lots of presents so I decided to have some fun with this fabric.

A Santa suit for my daughter’s doll would be so cool.  I got out my Funky fur doll clothes pattern and started creating what turned out to be a great Santa outfit.  I just added a belt made from a strip of black satin and found the buckle from an old watch band to be the perfect size.  Of course Santa also needed a sack to carry all the toys in so I used a square of the red fabric, made a casing along the top, stitched up the side and bottom and threaded a cord through the top.  All that was needed now to finish off this scene was to stuff the sack with little boxes covered with Chrissy paper, a cute teddy and Taah Daah!  What do you think?

When my daughter arrived home from school she was thrilled and forgot all about doing her homework….playing with Santa was much more fun!

It just shows that using a little bit of imagination, you can often take a basic doll clothes pattern and create something very special.

Happy Sewing