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Piece A
Piece B
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Piece C
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Piece F

Piece D - E

Piece G
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WAISTBAND
Piece C
1/4 SEAM

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^ BUT T EDGES TOGETHER ^

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1/4” SEAM

Piece D

HEMLINE
BACK

^ BUT T EDGES TOGETHER ^

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AP AP
LEAVE OPEN SN SN
LEAVE OPEN

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1/4” seam

1/4” seam
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DART
DART
SKIRT

Piece A
Piece C
COLLAR

COLLAR

PLEAT

PLEAT
DART
DART

ENTER FRONT CENTER FRONTCENTER FRONT

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DART

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/ 4 ”

1/4”
SEA

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PLEAT
BODICE BODICE
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FOLD LINE

DART
DART

LEAVE OPEN
LEAVE OPEN
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LEAVE OPEN

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DART

SKIRT
PLEAT

DART

HEMLINE
CENTER FRONT
CENTER FRONT
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DART
PLEAT

Piece B

BODICE

DART

LEAVE OPEN
1/4” SEAM
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FRONT
Piece A

SKIRT LEFT FRONT

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HEMLINE
HEMLINE
SKIRT RIGHT FRONT
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SKIRT RIGHT FRONT

Piece B
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HEMLINE

HEMLINE

SKIRT LEFT FRONT

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Piece C
SKIRT LEFT BACK
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LINE
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SKIRT RIGHT BACK

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LEAVE OPEN
Piece D
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SKIRT RIGHT BACK

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1/4” SEAM

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Piece F

LEFT SHORTS
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WAISTBAND
Piece G
1/4” SEAM
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RIGHT BLOUSE
HEMLINE

BUTTON

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TURN ON THIS LINE
FOLD LINE
COLLAR
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TURN ON THIS LINE
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WAISTBAND
Piece C
1/4 SEAM

FOLD

DART
PLEAT
PLEAT

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COULOTTE
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CUT 2
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1/4” SEAM
PETTICOAT

HEMLINE
Piece A - B

SKIRT
GATHER

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CENTER BACK SEAM

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CAPE FRONT
SNAP
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CENTER FRONT
Piece A - C

TURN ON THIS LINE

1/4” SEAM
COLLAR FOLDLINE
Piece D
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VIEW 1

Instructions for Sewing Barbie’s Skirt and Jacket

1. For SKIRT tack pleats in place.

2. Let’s give the back opening a nice clean finish by

trucking the raw threads under in a small fold, then
blind stitching them in place.

3. Now you are ready for the waistband.

4. Nothing left to do now but make our hem.

For JACKET five pieces. Seem like a lot? You’ve put together puzzles which had lots more. And
this little puzzle is made easy because each piece speaks for itself.

LITTLE MISS MARKER

5. Let’s make marks on our Jacket piece C, which will show up when we take off our pattern.
Here, we’ll make clips to mark our center front and center back, just as the lines tell us. Make a
tiny clip at the cut edges, top and bottom.
6. And we’ll make our “snap” and botton marks just
as we did for waistband, by putting the pencil point
through the tissue to make a dot on the fabric ... 9 dots
in all.

The two loops form the armholes, clip at the edge of the
underarm line.

Now remove your pattern.

7. Before removing your pattern, clip sleeves at the edge

of the “underarm” line.

Make a line of long running stitches along the seamline

on curved edges of both sleeves to ease in the fullness
when joining sleeves to jacket.

Let’s put in our sleeves before we close up the seam. It

will be easier this way. With faces together, match the
underarm clips, and notches on right sleeve and notch-
es on left sleeve, pin the cut edges together. See that all
edges match evenly around the armholes and at the
shoulder. Pull thread to ease fullness in sleeves. Stitch.

8. You have just made curved seams, so to prevent them

from drawing, we must ease them by making small clips
into the seam allowance.

9. Lets press our armhole seams while they lie flat.

10. As we close up our sleeve seam, we will also be
making our shoulder seam: With faces together, pin
and stitch each sleeve, from sleeve edge to neck edge,
matching notches. Press the seam allowance apart.

11. You almost have it made: Let’s finish our sleeve edg-
es with a hem just like the one you made in the skirt.

What shall we do with the raw edges around the suit?

We’ll face them.

A facing serves two purposes...

It gives a finish to a cut edge and provides the double

fabric thickness that you need to sew snaps, buttons,
etc. Notice that G and F, when placed against the jacket,
outline it exactly.

12. So, let’s join them. With faces together, match Notch-
es 8 and stitch the center back neckline seam. Match
Notch 9 and stitch the center back lower seam.

13. With faces together, pinthe facing to the jacket, up

the front, matching notches 10 and 11.

14. You must turn your facing to the inside but you have
some clipping to do first.
a. Trim the corners at the front openings, to make them
sharp.
b. Make small clips around the neckline so that it will
lie flat when it is turned.
15. Let’s press and pin facing to the inside of the jacket.

16. Blind-stitch the facing in place, sure to turn the raw

threads under so that the jacket will have a pretty a fin-
ish inside as out.

GRAND FINALE

You are ready for the finishing touches which will truly
make this a double-breasted suit. Tack six tiny beads
for buttons at button marking on jacket.

16. The right front over the left so than? the three “snap”
marks are directly under the buttons near the front
edge of jacket. Sew one half of snaps at snap marks on
left front and the other half under buttons front edge of
the right front.

Be sure to give the entire suit a final press. Then dress

with pride... because you have just made your first suit.
And you’ve done so well that you’ll have to make one
for yourself now.
 VIEW 2

Instructions for Sewing Barbie’s Blouse and Culottes

1. BLOUSE sew darts at shoulder/neck right sides to-

gether.

2. Sew facing to neck and back edges with right sides

together. Clip curves, trim corners.

3. Turn facing to right side. Press. Slip stitch facing in

place.

4. Pin and stitch side seams. Turn under armhole edges

and slip stitch to form a neat hem. Turn up bottom edge
and hem in place with slip stitch.

5. Sew snaps to back edge. Sew tiny buttons over the

snaps on the outside edge.
6. COULOTTES

Sew darts at waist edge and press to-

wards back.

Sew center front seam. Sew center back

seam to notch (leave open above notch).
Clip the curved front and back seams as
shown.

7. Sew the leg seams together matching notches. Press

open.

8. Hem the bottoms. Finish back opening by rolling un-

der and blind-stitching in place.

9. Pin front and back pleats in place and baste to hold.

10. WAISTBAND

Stitch ends of waistband right sides together.

Turn to right side. Pin waistband in place and
stitch. Turn under the raw edge and stitch in
place.
 VIEW 3

Sewing Instructions for Barbie’s Sheath Dress

1. For BODICE sew front darts and press towards cen-

ter front.

2. For SKIRT sew darts and press towards center back.

Tack pleats in place.

3. Sew BODICE and SKIRT together at waist.

4. Sew shoulder seams.

5. Sew center back seam leaving open above notch.

6. Turn under back edges and slip stitch in place.

7. For COLLAR fold the collar on fold line right sides

together. Pin and stitch each end. Turn collar right side
out.
8. Attach collar to neckline: With right sides togeth-
er, pin the collar to the bodice matching notches.
The collar ends should come just to the back open-
ing. Now stitch the collar.
Pin the free edge of the collar to the inside just over
your stitching line. Tuck the raw threads under as
you pin. Blind-stitch or slip stitch into place.

9. For finishing the armhole edge, first clip the edge

with tiny clips. Then roll the edge under and blind
stitch the edges.

10. Hem bottom of skirt.

11. Finish back with two tiny snaps at top edge and
at waist edge.
 VIEW 4

Sewing Instructions for Barbie’s Skating Skirt (has

shorts attached)

1. SKIRT: Join center front seam. Join center back

seam leaving open above notch.

2. Join back and front side seams.

3. Press seams open.

4. Finish the edge of back opening and make a rolled

hem at the bottom.
5. SHORTS: Sew darts and press towards front.

6. Sew front seam. Sew back seam leaving open above

notch.

7. Stitch the leg seams together matching notches. Make

a rolled hem at leg bottoms and at the back opening.

8. JOIN SKIRT and SHORTS: Slip the skirt over the

shorts (as you would if you were wearing them). Baste
the waist edges together matching the front seams and
back opening.

Fold waistband in half lengthwise wrong sides together

and stitch across ends. Turn right side out and press.

9. Pin waistband to skirt waist edge and stitch a 1/4”

seam. Turn under the unfinished edge and slip stitch in
place. Sew a small snap as a closure at the ends of the
waistband.
Sewing Instructions for Barbie’s Skating Blouse

10. Stitch darts at shoulder.

11. With wrong sides together sew facing at back

seams and neck edge. Clip neck edge and trim cor-
ners.

12. Turn facing to right side and press. Turn under

raw edge and slip stitch in place.

13. With wrong sides together stitch side seams. Clip

underarm inward curve. Make hems at sleeve and
bottom edges.

14. Sew two small snaps at back edge at markings.

 VIEW 5

Sewing Instructions for Barbie’s Blouse with Collar

1. Mark your center front lines on the blouse fronts. I

always do this with thread markings before taking the
pins out after cutting out a pattern piece.

2. Sew the BLOUSE back seam.

3. For COLLAR fold the collar on fold line and sew the
ends in 1/4” seams.

4. Clip the collar at the sharp end to eliminate bulk and

turn the collar right side out. Press. Pin the collar to
the neck edge matching the notches. Baste in place. The
collar edges must come to your center front markings.
5. For facings sew the center back seam of the facings
with right sides together. Press seam open.

6. Pin the facings to the neck edge over the collar and
sew in 1/4” seam.

7. Clip the neck edge and turn the facing to the right
side. Hand sew the facing to hold it down. Stitch the
side seams.

8. Turn under the armhole edges and stitch in a slip

stitch. Hem the bottom of the blouse.

9. Sew snaps to the front edge so that center front

markings overlap. Sew tiny buttons to the front edge
of the blouse at markings.

10. We must attach skirt and petticoat

to waistband, but first we must gather
the top on waistline of skirt and petti-
coat together.
 VIEW 6

Instructions for Sewing the Cape

1. Sew shoulder darts.

Sew fronts to back leaving opening for arms
between circles.

2. COLLAR Fold lengthwise on fold line with right

sides together and stitch ends in 1/4” seams.

3. Turn collar to right side and press.

4. Stay stitch neck edge a slight 1/4” and clip the curve.
Baste the collar to the neck edge.
5. FACINGS With right sides together sew the facings
together at center back. Press open.

6. Pin the facings over the collar and stitch in 1/4”

seam. Clip curve.

7. Turn facings to right side and press. Hem the bot-

tom edge of the cape. Slip stitch facing edge to hold
in place. Turn under arm hold edges and slip stitch in
place.

8. Finish front edge with a snap to hold the neckline

in place. Over the snap sew a tiny button or bead.
Press the cape well.