How to Make Bratz Clothes

Basic Pants

• 1

  Lay the doll out flat on a sheet of paper. Trace around the lower body, from the waist to the ankles, to create a basic trouser shape. Remove the doll.

• 2

  Take the doll's measurements at the waist, using a piece of string. Measure the string with a ruler to get the waist measurement. Divide this measurement in half, then make sure the top of your pants drawing matches this measurement.

• 3

  Trace around the outsides of the drawing, adding 1/4 inch to all sides for seam allowances. Cut the drawing from the paper to use as a pattern.

• 4

  Pin the pattern to a double layer of stretch cotton fabric and cut two pants pieces. Finish the raw edges of the pieces with fabric glue, if your fabric frays.

• 5

  Fold the waist edges of the pieces under 1/4 inch, and sew them in place. Fold the hem edges under 1/4 inch, and sew them.

• 6

  Lay the pieces together, right sides touching, and pin the sides of the pants together. Sew 1/4 inch away from the edges. Trim the excess seam allowances, if necessary.

Basic Top

• 7

  Trace the top of the doll's body onto a sheet of paper. Remove the doll, and alter the shirt design to suit your taste. Add seam allowances of 1/4 inch to the side seams, sleeve hems, neckline and shirt hem.

• 8

  Cut the pattern from the paper, and pin it to a double layer of fabric. Match the shirt shoulders and the top of the sleeves with the folded part of the fabric so you cut the shirt in one piece.

• 9

  Make a single cut up the center back of the shirt, all the way to the neck hole.

• 10

  Fold the hem edges under 1/4 inch, and sew them in place. Sew the side seams together from sleeve hem to shirt hem. Finish the neck edge by folding it under and sewing it in place.

• 11

  Add snaps or hook and reel tape to the center-back edges of the shirt so the shirt opens and closes easily.

Basic Skirt

• 12

  Take the doll's waist measurement, double it, then add 1/2 inch. Cut a rectangle of fabric as wide as that measurement and as long as you would like the skirt to be, plus 1/4 inch.

• 13

  Gather the top edge of the skirt. Fold the bottom edge under 1/4 inch, and sew it in place.

• 14

  Sew the center-back of the skirt together, 1/4 inch away from the edges, stopping a few inches from the waist.

• 15

  Adjust the gathers at the top of the skirt to fit the doll's waist. Sew a piece of 1/4-inch wide ribbon over the top of the skirt, leaving the ends of the ribbon long.

• 16

  Slide the skirt onto the doll, and tie the ribbon in the back.