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Back in June, I did a review of this Mattel Advance Sew Easy pattern number 2895, with a focus on the wedding dress and veil. Today I’m going to look at the Barbie gloves.

Every now and then, I’ve gotten requests in my in-box for designing Barbie gloves or mittens. I’d like to be able to tell you that this Mattel Advance doll clothes pattern number 2895 has patterns for making gloves and mittens, but unfortunately I can’t recommend this pattern for that purpose.

This particular pattern from my collection was a gift from a friend, and although it appears to offer a long glove in View 4 and an Easter-style shorter glove in View 2, I can’t confirm that it does actually have the glove patterns… because my pre-cut pattern is incomplete.

However I can always give a person advice on how to make a pair of gloves for Barbie sized fashion dolls.

If I wanted to sew a pair of gloves for Barbie, I would lay her down on a piece of paper, trace around her arm and hand without paying particular attention to the thumb.

That would give me a shape like this:

This image shows Stage 1 of my doll mitten drawing. It — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Then I would add a temporary seam allowance, all the way around the hand shape:

This image shows Stage 2 of Chelly Woods doll glove or mitten pattern. It — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Next I would add a “cut line” to mark where the thumb would have its own ingress:

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This shows Stage 3 of the Chelly Wood doll glove or mitten pattern. Here we see the outline of a dolls hand with a seam allowance around it, but there — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

The next thing I’d do is adjust for seam allowances between the thumb and fingers:

The Stage four doll glove or mitten adds a seam allowance to the thumb delineation. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Then I’d finalize all seam markings:

In stage 5 of the doll glove or mitten pattern, we see how details of seam markings have been added to the glove pattern. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

The only accommodation you’d have to consider when designing the longer “evening gown” style of glove, would be this: a doll’s upper arm will most likely be a bit wider than the doll’s wrist, so there would have to be some tapering, as you can see here:

This is a longer version of a doll glove, in which the dimensions around the hand are about the same as the mitten version of the doll glove; but in this longer version, the fabric at the dolls upper arm area is wider than the fabric at the wrist of the doll, since this pattern will be for a glove that goes up the dolls arm to about the middle of her upper arm. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

In this close up of view 5 from Sew-Easy Patterns by Advance vintage Mattel, Inc. Toymakers Barbie doll clothes sewing pattern #2895, a vintage Barbie with brunette bubble cut hair wears a satin evening gown with long white dressy gloves that form like a mitten around the hand and go all the way up to her upper arms. In one hand she carries a tiny gold purse. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

Now a person could potentially design a glove or mitten for any size doll, following these standard steps, but if you wanted to just print my images, you’d need to re-size them for your dolls, of course.

And I haven’t tested these pattern prototypes, so I can’t promise you they will work. I’m just musing here about how I would design a doll’s glove, if I wanted to design one.

I recommend using white jersey fabric for your gloves, though, if you actually do want to give this project a try, because jersey will offer extra stretch-ability to make sure they fit somewhat like the ones shown in View 4 of the Mattel Advance doll clothes pattern number 2895.

I’m currently working on a traditional 1950’s style dress pattern for my Ideal Tammy doll. Maybe I’ll resize my prototype glove pattern to go with my Tammy doll‘s dress and see if it works out okay.

But that’s a project to post here another day. 😉

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