I was going to post in the "What are you currently sewing"-thread at first, but then I realized I had something potentially useful to say, so I decided to make a new thread. Recently I've been looking for patterns, but googling turned up very little useful stuff. I was looking for a women's dress shirt. Google and Pinterest turned up barely any doll patterns for the kind of thing I was looking for, however some patterns meant for humans caught my eye. Specifically, some pins leading to a site called Dr.Cos that hosts free patterns. The actual human sized patterns are clearly useless, but the pins themselves have miniatures of the pattern pieces on them, presumably as a preview. Here's an example Tailor Collar Jacket Free Sewing Patterns | Jacket pattern sewing, Sewing patterns, Sewing patterns free. I, in a moment of inspiration, decided to simply print out the preview of some of them. I enlarged them some before printing. Then I cut them out and voilá, I had some pretty decent MSD patterns. I still needed to make fit adjustments of course, and I needed to figure out my own seam allowance (but I would do that anyway because different materials benefit from different seam allowances I think), but what I've tried to sew with the patterns I gained this way is pretty decent. Here are some in-progress pics: Here's the shirt I went looking for in the first place. It's not done yet, but it fits really well so far. I need to add darts, finish the edges and button rows, and also add the collar, but the sleeves turned out great if I do say so myself. They fit exactly as I wanted them to (and I'm still pretty much a novice at sewing). 20201220_220400 This is a leather skirt obviously, it's not more fitted at the waist because my order of snaps and buttons isn't here yet, but I think it already looks decent. 20201220_220323 Here are the pieces of the original shirt pattern without any adjustments (aside from being enlarged before printing) 20201220_220706 And these are my finished pattern pieces (minus one collar bit): 20201220_220741 As I said, I had to adjust some stuff, I made the sleeves longer, made some pieces wider, but overall I didn't have to do more that I would've if I used a dedicated MSD pattern, because patterns specifically for this doll don't exist anyway. The patterns are already free, so they're worth experimenting with I think.
That's a really cool idea! Thanks for sharing!! You could even cut (and then sew) the patterns out of scrap fabric/ sheets/ muslin at first. That way you could play with alterations/ seam allowances/ scaling when printing and stuff. I'm excited about this.
I have SD and MSD I sew for. I drafted basic patterns using instructions for human basic patterns. I'm using original doll measurements and where is a formula, I divided by 3 for SD and by 4 for MSD. It works so far for both of them
Oh man, thats an cool new method! I usually just try to eyeball the sizes on some scrap until it fits how I like. The results you got are pretty good!