On Friday (August 21st, 2015) we'll have one of the following patterns available for free from Kristin Rutten in celebration of her one-year Anniversary on Pixie Faire! Be sure to leave a comment and join us in congratulating her and let her know which pattern you think should be free.
More About Kristin Rutten: Kristin Rutten is the creator, owner and operator of Matilda Jo Originals, which includes patterns sold under the Matilda’s Closet and AptOne8 labels. Born and raised in Montana, she first learned to sew on her grandmother's antique Singer Featherweight sewing machine by cutting out and stitching a simple nine-square pillow. Other projects soon followed and she has been crafting and sewing ever since. She makes her home in Central Montana with her husband and four children.
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Update: The Inspired By Zooey Dress Won!
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Inspired By Zooey Dress:Express your doll's playful, offbeat, quirky or creative side with this fitted, lined dress inspired by actress Zooey Deschanel! Modeled after the Ahoy dress from the "To Tommy from Zooey" line by Tommy Hilfiger, this PDF pattern allows you to express your doll's own individual style through your choice of accent fabric for the mock pockets and cute faux skirt peeking from underneath, as well as optional piping at the neckline and armholes. A back zipper closure adds to its authenticity. Whether you choose a red, white and blue sailor-type combo like Zooey, a denim cowgirl style like Matilda Jo, or your own original combination of fabrics and patterns, your doll is sure to feel special in her new fun and flirty dress!
Happy Campers Sleeping Bags: If your doll is going to host a great slumber party, backyard camp out, or adventure in the woods, a comfy and cute sleeping bag is an accessory you'll want to be sure to have on hand! Your adventurers will indeed be happy campers when you create their favorite type of sleeping bag ... the perfect accessory to the Happy Campers Dome Tent. This PDFpattern includes options for two main types of sleeping bags: a traditional bag and a mummy bag with optional attached stuff sack. Suitable for an intermediate seamstress, the traditional bag features the familiar rectangular shape with curved head area and a side zipper, plus built-in elastic bands for easy storage. Just roll it up, slip the bands over the ends, and you're good to go. Finished size is approximately 19.5x8.5 inches. The mummy bag has a more contoured shape and offers two options for closure - one with Velcro(TM) strips and another with a pair of zippers. Both have the option of an attached stuff sack, which allows you to do just as it suggests... stuff the bag into the sack, cinch up the cord and you're done... just like the real thing! The Velcro(TM) version is appropriate for an intermediate level seamstress, while the zippered version is a bit more advanced because of the complexity of the construction and materials used. Finished size is approximately 20x8 inches.
Sew Better Together Pillow & Pillowcase:Sew up a basic pillow and then personalize it by adding a custom-designed pillowcase using one of the five included design templates along with fabric crayons and/or permanent markers ... or create your own unique design! This is a Sew Better Together project, which is designed to support those new to sewing in the creation of clothing and other items for their 18-inch friends. This includes hands-on participation in the construction of the items, as well as a variety of opportunities to add a personal touch and develop true ownership in the finished product. This PDF pattern uses only basic sewing techniques with ample instructions and photos. All that is needed is at least one participant familiar with the basic use of a sewing machine, including threading the machine and completing basic straight and zigzag stitches. This person should also be mature enough to know how to handle tools safely, such as a hot iron or sharp needles.
Att-Girl Long-Distance Running Outfit: Nearly anyone can be a runner ... even your 18-inch friend! Start her on the right foot with a cute running outfit, including an all-in-one running skirt with attached leggings. Top it off with a matching pullover singlet. You can even use the bonus tutorial to make a detachable running bib so she'll be race-ready! This PDF pattern includes cutting lines for four legging lengths so you can make exactly the type of outfit you need, ranging from no-show shorts to full-length footless tights. In fact, there are even instructions for making a skirt without the leggings or leggings without the skirt, which means your options are limited only by your imagination. All pieces in this intermediate-level pattern are fully lined, including the pullover singlet which requires no fasteners ... simply pull it up over your doll's hips and she'll be ready to go!
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Don't forget - we'd love to hear your opinion - which one of these fun patterns should be free? Leave a comment below and congratulate Kristin on her one-year anniversary!
100 Comments
Jody Hersom
September 02, 2015
PM on Thursday, August 27th. If you eventually get an app from us, we ll include three free quizzes.
Lisa T
August 27, 2015
Sleeping Bag!!
Tima
August 27, 2015
Happy Camper Sleeping Bag
Rebecca Culver
August 27, 2015
I would vote for the Oxford Square Hooded Coat….
Shirley
August 27, 2015
I love the sleeping bag. I like seeing accessories we can make for our dolls.
Suzan
August 27, 2015
I vote for the sleeping bag. That is so much better than wrapping their baby in a blanket.
Laurel
August 27, 2015
I love the sleeping bag!!
Candice
August 27, 2015
The oxford coat is cute.
Maria
August 27, 2015
Definitely vote for the coat!
Judy Olson
August 26, 2015
I definitely vote for the coat. Very cute. Love it
Beaj
August 26, 2015
Congratulations on Your anniversary.
I vote for the Zooey Dress.. Thanks for your generous gifting of a pattern to us…we appreciate your generosity..:)
Lynda
August 26, 2015
I vote for the Zooey dress!
Susan
August 26, 2015
I love the running outfit!
`June
August 26, 2015
I vote for the sleeping bag. I voted for that last week so perhaps I will be lucky this week.
Irene
August 26, 2015
I think the sleeping bag would be fun to make and I am sure my granddaughters would love it for their dolls.
Betty
August 26, 2015
I vote for the LEGGINGS.
Suz
August 26, 2015
Definitely the Oxford Square hooded coat.
Coralee Hines
August 26, 2015
The Oxford Square Hooded Coat please. Thank you!
Jean P
August 26, 2015
Happy Campers Sleeping bag!!
Carol Mitchell
August 26, 2015
Sleeping bag please!
Janet
August 26, 2015
The Zooey dress gets my vote!
AnneMarie
August 26, 2015
Your choices are from last week, but I vote for the Oxford Square hooded coat.
Christine
August 26, 2015
These pics and words are from last week, but I found pictures I think you meant for this week. That being the case the Oxford sq hooded jacket is my first choice.
Jeanne
August 26, 2015
I might be a little confused, but aren’t the patterns listed from last week’s “freebie-friday” selections (the note says voting is closed). So, if this helps, I would like Oxford Jacket pattern please.
Kathy
August 26, 2015
Happy campers sleeping bag looks fun
Lela
August 26, 2015
Atta Girl Running Outfit would be my choice. Love seeing the new ideas and concepts. Keep up the great work you are doing. Love being a part if it! Blessings for a wonderful future!
Judy Hayes
August 26, 2015
Congrats Kristin!!!
All these patterns are super! Great designs! I vote for the sleeping bag. I’d like to make one for each of my dolls.
jennifer
August 26, 2015
though they are all great I’ll vote for the sleeping bag!
Ellie Guhl
August 26, 2015
Zooey Dress
Dette
August 26, 2015
The sleeping bag would make my granddaughter happy as they like to camp
Sandy
August 26, 2015
The sleeping bag looks like fun! You’ve got my vote.
Jean h
August 26, 2015
Running outfit
Sha
August 26, 2015
I like the sleeping bag
Karen
August 26, 2015
I vote for the sleeping bag.
Wendy
August 26, 2015
Congrats Kristen! I have to pick the Zooey Dress.
Barbara Fox
August 26, 2015
I vote for the sleeping bag!
Linda
August 26, 2015
I’m voting for the sleeping bag. All are so cute!!!
Sue
August 21, 2015
Zooey’s dress is so darling! Along with the Happy Campersleeping bag!
Vicki
August 21, 2015
Happy Campers is my choice. Every girl needs a good place to sleep on those camping trips!
Happy 1 year anniversary! Camping would be a great way to celebrate!
Linda
August 21, 2015
I didn’t vote this time because I have these. This dress is adorable. In addition, the sleeping bag AND the tent are great patterns. I made the tent and 3 sleeping bags for the granddaughter for Christmas and she still has the tent up in her room to play with! I made the traditional sleeping bags and they look just like real ones, even with the separating zipper!
Super choices and congrats Kristin on 1 year…..I still have my Singer Featherweight, a 1964 rare white finish! Thanks for the freebies!
Anita
August 21, 2015
I vote for the Zooey girl dress. I would like to wish you a Happy Anniversary and tell you thank you for freebie Friday.
Heather
August 21, 2015
Happy Campers please!!!!!! Our dolls need to have a sleepover! ;)
Dallie
August 21, 2015
Happy Camper!
springg
August 21, 2015
running :)
Lidia JVR
August 21, 2015
Zooey dress
Lidia JVR
August 21, 2015
Zoey dress
Gma
August 20, 2015
I love the sleeping bag. Congratulations on your first year and wish you many more. Thank you for Freebie Friday.
Laura
August 20, 2015
Sleeping bag!
Rita C.
August 20, 2015
Congratulations Kristen on your first year anniversary for being on Pixie Faire. I love how you draw from your environment (Montana) in so many of your designs. I had a hard time deciding and would love to own all four of them. In the end I went with the running outfit simply because it is so unique! Good luck in all your creative endeavors and a very long association with Pixie Faire. I am from Utah so I feel a kindred spirit to your designs. Thank you for your generosity!!
Dana Bradley
August 20, 2015
I love all of the patterns it is very hard t choose which one to vote on! I love your art work for your logo also. Cute!
Carolyn
August 20, 2015
I love the sleeping bag. Congratulations on your first year and wish you many more. Thank you for Freebie Friday.
Pam
August 20, 2015
Oh, how wonderful that you have stayed with pattern making for dolls! Congrats! I hope you have been successful and will continue to grow in your ideas and expertise! You are very inspiring.
I have to say that my favorite today is the sleeping bag. I had 3 sons and no daughters. (That’s why I am still playing with dolls) They were all boy scouts and this pattern looks so authentic. Great job. I think I need to get the tent pattern too. We can have a campout to end the summer here on Labor day weekend! :)
Karen
August 20, 2015
I love all your patterns and congratulations on your first year. Thank you so much for your
generosity in offering us one of your patterns for freebie Friday. They are all lovely and I would be happy with any one of them. I did vote for the sleeping bag but it was a hard choice. God Bless
Pauline B
August 20, 2015
Congratulations Kirstin on your one year anniversary of making little girls so proud of the lovely outfits their dolls can wear because of your great talent. Thanks for the freebie, I was so tossed between the sleeping bag and the running outfit!!! My granddaughters just left this evening on a camping trip and they would have loved those sleeping bags. But in the end I gave my vote to the running outfit because of all the choices in the pattern…skirt, top, leggings… WOW. Thanks and have a great weekend. Love your talent.
Brenda Brown
August 20, 2015
Thank You Kristen for sharing your talent with us, I chose the zooey dress.
Dorothy
August 20, 2015
I like the Atta Girl running outfit…
Elaine
August 20, 2015
The Zooey Dress is adorable for these dolls.
Amy & Katie
August 20, 2015
We both agree on the Running Outfit – so many possibilities!
Darlene
August 20, 2015
congratulations Kristen o one year, Looking forward to another year with you and your great ideas My choice is the Running Outfit
Shirley
August 20, 2015
love the dress, I figured I could make a sleeping bag myself
Nicky Herner
August 20, 2015
Zoey dress!
Brandyn
August 20, 2015
Ooooh …. I love Matilda’sCloset. CONGRATS on 1yr! Those are all CUTE but I gueeeesssss I would choose the SleepingBag {followed by Zooey’sDress}!
Christina
August 20, 2015
Kristen, congratulations on your 1 year anniversary! I wish you continued success with Matilda’s Closet brand! I am very happy to see that you have included a pattern that is perfect for teaching our young sewers with something they can design themselves! The pillow and pillowcase set would be wonderful for a ‘sewing party’ with young attendees!
Barb M.
August 20, 2015
Congratulations Kristin on your first year anniversary—and best wishes for many more successful years! Thanks also for being so generous as to offer a freebie!
It was a total 50/50 decision between the Zooey dress and the running outfit so after going back & forth for several minutes, I finally picked up a quarter laying on my end table and flipped it! Heads for the Zooey dress! I’ll be happy with any of them though—so cute!
Donna D
August 20, 2015
I think they should be free sometime.
Caro
August 20, 2015
Zoey dress. Really a toss up with the runner outfit. Thanks for everything.
Kendra
August 20, 2015
Thank you for letting us vote, I’d love to have the sleeping bag pattern.
Laura
August 20, 2015
Congrats on the anniversary. Love your patterns, very true to current day trends. I would love the Zooey dress; fun and unique.
Susan
August 20, 2015
Love your patterns! So easy to follow. All the choices are amazing but the sleeping bag is so different that I love it! Every doll needs a place to sleep on a camping trip or sleepover!
Thanks so very much for you patterns and sharing your talents with us!
Donna folmer
August 20, 2015
I am having a hard time deciding. I like the Zooy dress and sleeping bag also!!!! I like running skirt and shots too!! So I guess I would be happy with one of those! Hard choice!
kathy
August 20, 2015
congrats, Kristin. I’m voting for the zooey dress.I love the idea of the cowgirl version. Thanks!!!
Patsy
August 20, 2015
Wow, this is a hard one…..lot of dresses done lately so….I’m going to chose,,….the running outfit ……it was a close one between that and the sleeping bag. Thanks for sharing.
tammy
August 20, 2015
I’d like to try the Zooey dress. A bit different from some others I’ve done.
Crystal
August 20, 2015
I am voting for the sleeping bags. They are so cute. The little girls will love taking their dolls camping with them.
Pat
August 20, 2015
Running dress or sleeping bag please!
Jude
August 20, 2015
My granddaughters have just chosen the running outfit. They have their fingers crossed.
Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary.
Susan
August 20, 2015
Congratulation Kristin! Hope you many years of inspiration! My vote go first with the Zooey dress, then the sleeping bag, then the runner outfit, and then the pillow!
Lynnda M
August 20, 2015
Congratulations Kristen and Happy Anniversary! Thank you so much for offering one of your wonderful patterns. I like the sleeping bag because it is so unique. Thank you.
Margot
August 20, 2015
Love your patterns. I am going with the Happy Camper Sleeping Bags.
Olivia
August 20, 2015
Congratulations on you first anniversary Kristen! I love your style and have voted for Atta Girl Running Outfit. All the best for the next year of designing.
Laura Smith
August 20, 2015
First of all, Congratulations!! Secondly – I’m voting Inspired by Zooey because I absolutely love the style!
Susan
August 19, 2015
I vote for the Zooey Dress. It’s cute.
Anne C-E
August 19, 2015
Congrats Kristen keep up the good work. I love both the inspired by Zoe and the long distance runner outfits!
Ann
August 19, 2015
Zooey
desiree
August 19, 2015
I think that Zooey ’s dress is the best pick for this week.[ s
Becky
August 19, 2015
Zooey dress is my choice for this week. Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary. Keep up the good work.
Cynthia
August 19, 2015
Sleeping bag
Charlene
August 19, 2015
Vote for Zooey Dress. I like them all.
pam
August 19, 2015
I love them all but i would love to make the sleeping bag so i vote for the sleeping bag pattern. thank you so very much
pam
dawn
August 19, 2015
I have 4 granddaughter who would LOVE to have a sleeping bag for their 18" doll.
lisa rainey
August 19, 2015
The Zooey dress is my choice. I like the contrast fabric.
Monya
August 19, 2015
Congratulations Kristen! Thank you for the choice of beautiful patterns. My vote is for the Zooey dress, adorable!
Jean
August 19, 2015
Hello,
I voted for the Zooey Dress. Thank you again
Jean h
August 19, 2015
Zooey dress is my vote
Sheila
August 19, 2015
I love the Zooey dress. I could do a lot with that pattern
Lin
August 19, 2015
Wow Love the sleeping bag. Never saw one made for dolls before. Very nice.
Helen L
August 19, 2015
I like the Zooey dress. you can make it many ways. Congratulations on your 1 year and hope you’ll have many more. Thank you
Felicia
August 19, 2015
I voted for the Inspired by Zooey dress. It looks like alot of fun to sew up and it can be made it so many with so many different fabrics.
Line
August 19, 2015
Friday is a great day. I vote for the sleeping bag.
Rhonda
August 19, 2015
refer to previous comment-sleeping bag should have been mentioned
On Friday (August 21st, 2015) we'll have one of the following patterns available for free from Kristin Rutten in celebration of her one-year Anniversary on Pixie Faire! Be sure to leave a comment and join us in congratulating her and let her know which pattern you think should be free.
Jody Hersom
September 02, 2015
PM on Thursday, August 27th. If you eventually get an app from us, we ll include three free quizzes.