Make a fun Holiday outfit using the Forever 18 Inches Lollipop Garden Dress! With just a few specific fabric and trim choices you can transform your 18" American Girl doll into a Gingerbread Girl!
Giveaway Update: Congratulations Sherelyn! You are the winner of the gingerbread dress! Thanks to everyone who entered! We loved reading about all of those yummy cookies!
Follow along as Karen from Forever 18 Inches shows us how to use her Lollipop Garden Dress pattern to create a festive holiday outfit!
(Click on the image or the link above to find the pattern on Pixie Faire.)
Let's get started...
Materials Needed:
- 2/3 yd. of brown medium-weight fabric with a tight weave and some drape
- ¼ yd. of 45" wide lightweight fabric for lining
- A piece of 1-3/8" x 4-1/4" piece of bias-cut red-and-white striped fabric
- Four ¼" white buttons
- Three medium-sized snaps OR two pieces of thin ¼” wide Hook-and-Loop tape,
about 3 ½” long
- Matching thread
- 1 package of mini white rick rack
- One 12" long piece of 3/8" elastic
- Small, very sharp scissors to trim seam allowances
- Optional: Fray Check to prevent the rick rack from raveling
- 3 to 5 decorative buttons, ranging from 7/16" to ½"
To begin:
- Follow the directions to make the Skirt for the Dress.
- Follow Steps 1-15 in the directions to make the Top.
- Cut a 1-3/8" x 4-1/4" piece of red-striped fabric on the bias.
- Fold the striped fabric piece in half , RIGHT sides together, matching the short ends together. Stitch a ¼" seam on the short ends.
- Turn the sewn tube RIGHT side out.
- Fold the tube in half, WRONG sides together. Hand-sew a line of gathering stitches ¼" from the circular top of the unfinished edges.
7. Pull the gathering stitches tight to form a circular shape, and tie them off. Tack the gathered center edges together.
- Experiment with buttons to find a combination that's pleasing. I used three ½" green buttons, and two 7/16" red buttons.
- Sew the fabric circle and buttons onto the Top.
10. Complete Steps 17-18 to finish the top. Congratulations! Your Gingerbread Dress is finished!
Giveaway Time!
Let the holiday fun begin! We will be giving this fun holiday dress away to one lucky winner.
Gingerbread cookies are so much fun to decorate during the holidays! To enter the contest, leave a comment below finishing this sentence...
"My favorite Christmas cookie is....."
We'll pick a winner on Monday, December 4th, and get in touch via email. Thanks for entering and good luck!
For Pixie Faire,
Karen & The PF Team
190 Comments
My favorite has always been gingerbread at this time of year.
I love peanut butter blossom cookies with the candy kisses on top. I could and would eat the whole batch of cookies by myself.
My favorite cookie is one called “Jeans bars”. If you eat too many your jeans won’t fit. These are the best cookie I’ve ever had. The bottom layer is graham cracker and sweetened condensed milk. The next layer is chocolate chips and graham crackers. And the final layer is frosting with grated chocolate and crushed walnuts and peppermint on top. I don’t make them anymore because I’m trying to get back into my jeans, lol.
Thank you for the giveaway, this is always fun to look forward to.
My favorite Christmas cookie was one my mom only made for the holidays. I don’t know what’s it called but we just called them pecan balls. Little cookie balls with finely chopped pecans and covered all over with powdered sugar. They just melted in your mouth!! Now my mom is gone and I miss her making those cookies along with all the goodies she made. Never ever will I have those cookies again as I don’t have any of her recipes. She left too soon. ♥️
My favorite Christmas cookie is definitely the all time GINGERBREAD MAN. Making these with my granddaughters and icing them – then seeing their faces light up when they hand them out to the family as “look what we made today with Nana”. I’m yet to have anyone put one aside and not gobble them up. Anything with ginger is just amazing ❤️🤗😘