Button Front Skirt for an 18 Inch Doll Tutorial (free pattern) ♥ Fleece Fun

This button front skirt for an 18 inch doll tutorial is perfect for easy

(and fashionable) dressing of dolly.

Skirts that button up the front are one of the biggest trends for fall, and now your 18″ doll can have one too! This a-line skirt ends at the knee and includes a bias tape waistband and a front placket. I chose to use snaps on my version so that little fingers can dress and undress their doll on their own, but you can easily swap them out for buttons and buttonholes.

The fabric I used is a light grey quilting cotton, but any light to medium weight woven fabric will work. I paired the skirt with a store bought tee and a pair of cuffed leggings; you can find a free pattern for those here.

For your free printable skirt pattern and tutorial, click here.

This doll skirt is a simplified version of one of my most popular patterns, the Maple Skirt. You can purchase the girls’ and women’s version in my shop.

Materials

fat quarter light to medium weight woven fabric

scrap light weight fusible interfacing

1/4 yard 1/2″ bias binding (packaged or make your own)

4 snaps

Sewing Essentials pins, thread, needles etc.

Button Front Skirt for an 18 inch Doll Tutorial

Step 1 – Begin the Skirt

You will need to assemble the free pattern. For instructions on how to assemble the sewing pattern click here.

Seam allowance is 3/8″.

Cut 3/4″ strips of interfacing. Fuse to the WRONG side of the center fronts, beginning 1/2″ below the waistline. (It is marked in grey on the front pattern piece). This reinforces the snaps.

Finish bottom and side edges of fronts and back with a zigzag stitch or a serger.

Step 2 – Sew the Sides

Press center fronts to the wrong side by 3/4″ as marked on the pattern piece with a dashed line. This will be the front placket.

Pin and stitch skirt fronts to back at side seams, right sides together. Press seams open.

Step 3 – Make the Top

Sandwich bias binding over the waist of the skirt. Stitch in place.

Fold up bottom hem of the skirt 1/4″ to the wrong side. Topstitch.

Step 4 – Make the Placket

Fold center front placket to the wrong side (it was previously pressed in step 3). Topstitch along the raw edge.

Apply snaps on center front.

Get the Free Sewing Pattern Below:

You can get a free copy of Adobe reader here. By downloading you are agreeing to pattern terms of use. Click the picture of the pattern envelope to download the .pdf !

Button Front Skirt for an 18 Inch Doll Tutorial (free pattern)

Button Front Skirt for an 18 inch Doll Tutorial

Step 1 – Begin the Skirt

Step 2 – Sew the Sides

Step 3 – Make the Top

Step 4 – Make the Placket

Get the Free Sewing Pattern Below:

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