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Pattern Overview: A vintage swimsuit pattern for your American Girl Doll! With this fun and easy doll clothes pattern your 18 inch doll will have an endless supply of trend setting beach attire. Designer Donna Seabury has provided us with this fun new two piece bathing suit pattern for 18 inch American Girl dolls. This smartly designed doll clothes pattern has pieces to make a cute bandeau style halter top and a skort style bottom (shorts sewn under the skirt).

Buy The Pattern Now: $3.99

Pattern Guidebook Details: This is a beautifully illustrated pattern guidebook that you digitally download as a pdf file so you can start sewing your new 18 inch doll swimsuit immediately. The Adobe pdf viewer is required. You simply print out the pdf and you’re ready to start. The Guidebook provides the pattern pieces (or dimensions) and step-by-step instructions for creating the Vintage 1940′s swimsuit for your 18 inch American Girl Doll. *Before printing your new guidebook, ensure the ‘page scaling’ is set to ‘none’ in the print dialogue box. If it is set to ‘shrink to fit’ the pattern will not be properly sized.

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Frequently Asked Questions…

Are the instructions simple even if I’m not a good seamstress? Yes!

Can I start immediately if I have a sewing machine and material? Yes!

Will the finished product come out like the pictures if I follow the directions? Yes!

Will you give me a refund if I’m not happy with the pattern? Yes!

Will making this help me become a better seamstress if I’m just starting out? Yes!

I’ve seen Simplicity patterns and they seem really hard, is this easier than those? Yes!

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Perfect for the 1940's or the retro-styling of today!

 

 

What You Get For Just $3.99…

Pictures - Beautiful example pictures of the bathing suit.

Step-by-Step Instructions - These easy to follow instructions walk you through each step in completing your American Girl Doll’s new Swimsuit.

The Pattern - This is a fun and easy pattern, but sewing with knits or swim fabric might require a bit more patience.

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You Can Do It!

At the American Girl Doll Store you’d pay around $35 for a new outfit for your doll. But you can make these clothes for less than the cost of a Starbucks Grande White Chocolate Mocha. Making this outfit yourself is an extreme value! Go for it.

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Is It Time To Teach Your Daughter To Sew?

Maybe this is the perfect project!

Your daughter wants new doll clothes, why not use that excitement to teach her a valuable skill – sewing. It’s a skill she’ll use her entire life. The bonding and special one-on-one teaching time with your daughter will be invaluable. This is the perfect project to make it a reality. She’ll be excited to learn, and thank you for showing her something new.

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A Note To Aspiring Doll Clothes Makers: Want to become a partner? This pattern is intended for your personal use and enjoyment with your American Girl Doll, and not for commercial purposes. However, if you’d like permission to use our patterns for work-from-home sewing and selling, send us a request stating, “I’d like to become a partner”. Send it to cinnamon@libertyjaneclothing.com. We would be thrilled to partner with you. Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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A Note About File Sharing: Just like you buy a song from itunes for your personal use, you are buying 1 copy of this guidebook for your personal use. You do not have our permission to share it, resell it, or give it to someone else in any form. Selling this pdf file, or it’s contents, or giving it to someone else, is wrong and violates our copyright. Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

5 Responses to “Vintage Swimsuit for American Girl Dolls”

1. Vintage 1940s Swimsuit Pattern Now Available! « Eden Ava Couture says:

   April 25, 2011 at 2:52 am

   [...] Download! Print! & Sew this adorable 1940s Vintage Swimsuit for your American Girl doll today!  This pattern is available for purchase at Liberty Jane Patterns! [...]

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2. sonna miller says:

   February 14, 2012 at 4:59 pm

   very good site to visit and many good ideas.

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3. Toddler Swimwear says:

   February 18, 2012 at 10:03 am

   Hey i think your blog is good! I found it on Yahoo i think i’ll come back one day.

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4. Lily says:

   July 1, 2012 at 1:06 pm

   I HATE THIS BECAUSE THEY DON’T MAKE THINGS FOR MY TWINN DOLLS! IN FACT, NO ONE DOES!!!!!

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   • Cinnamon & Team LJC says:

     July 9, 2012 at 7:59 pm

     Hi Lilly, Sorry for your frustration. There is quite a bit of My Twinn items posted on Dollabee, you should check it out We may do some patterns for them in the future…

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5. Virginia says:

   July 31, 2012 at 8:56 pm

   I’m stuck! A question (p.10) about the “pin top facing to top”. Is the “Top” piece supposed to be “cut 2″ or am I suppose to cut another “Top” piece from interfacing? Thanks!

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