Barbie Sleeping Bag

I am so excited to be posting the last of the Barbie family sleeping bags for 2025!!! Of course there is always 2026 but I am hoping not to be making these in the fall next year.

Barbie is also now ready to be packed the day before Halloween!!

It is a great gift when you find a free pattern site that gives you great items for your donation. Suzie's Stuff blog has given me the patterns for the sleeping bags and sleep sacks for all the dolls. It was and continues to be a great gift.

I combine two patterns for the larger Barbie dolls. The first is the fashion doll sleeping bag, found here, which is made completely with sc stitches. I've made this one and it works well. I just find with so many projects it is a bit mind numbing. However, if I combine the shell option she offers with her Beanie Bag sleeping bag I find these projects are much easier to get finished. You can find that one here.

Notes:

I believe this is Red Heart Perfect Pink. I keep several pink shades in stock for the 18 inch doll princess dresses.

This project requires an I hook.

Our Generation Boy Pajamas

One of the challenges of donating the boy Our Generation is finding enough patterns to make it a workable donation. I've have some male patterns but I've taken to using some of the 18 inch girl patterns that are more generic and making them over for the boy. This year I've taken two Christmas themed patterns for both the boy and the girl and moved them to more year round colors because I think the outfits will get more use once Christmas is past if they aren't thought of as Christmas night wear.

This outfit was designed as Christmas PJ's for the 18 inch female doll by Adoring Dolls. You can purchase the pattern here. I will say it reminded me of the winter PJ's and long johns my brothers had growing up so I decided making them for the boys was not a bad choice.

Notes:

I chose not to include the night cap and I switched the back for front because it fit better for this doll.

I used an I hook and Caron One Pounder Blue Danube. While I love this shade I'm not sure it is still available. I pulled it from my stash as I wanted blue and I wanted to make sure I didn't run out mid project.

I used an I hook with this project and followed the directions as written until it came to figuring out how this would be worn. The directions are a bit iffy for closing it in the font. I tried it on with the doll wearing the opening in the front and honestly I wasn't loving the look. This led me to decide to close it in the back with a snap and add the button closure in the front as a decoration rather than the closure which was slightly unclear to me as to how it was going to work.

For my purposes this makes it easier for a child to use as the snap easily closes the outfit in the back and the outfit drapes better with the opening in the back. I would continue to make it this way as I'll need PJ's for next year as well.

She does have a pattern for pj's for the boy on her website but I wasn't sure they would appear different than a shorts and shirt outfit.

With this outfit the Our Generation Boy is ready to be packed the day before Halloween!! Yes I am excited to be finishing up and getting stuff packed.

Lots to Love 14 Inch Baby Doll Nightgown

Several years ago I made a mistake of not reading my notes and made this nightgown with the suggested G hook for the Lots to Love 10 inch Baby doll. It was huge and the Lots to Love 14 Inch Baby Doll inherited a nightgown. For some reason I never went back and made it for the larger baby doll again until I went on a quest to give nightwear to the dolls this year for the donation and realized I didn't have a specific pattern for the larger doll but I had used this pattern previously.

This pattern is the nightgown from Darski's free Sweetly pattern set found here.

With this item finished this doll is also ready to be boxed the day before Halloween!

Notes:

I used a G hook and Bernat Baby Big Ball Sport Yarn.

Bernat Baby Sport and Herrschners' brand yarns have been my go to yarn for the baby doll projects. I just ordered more of the Herrschners' striped yarns for the 2026 donation as I still have solid colors from my previous order but I've burned through quite a bit of my striped stash this year and do to the price of shipping I try to order only when they have shipping offers.

Supplies change but I find most of my Baby Bernat sport at Walmart. I used to order it online but the Walmart oddly has kept a wider selection of colors than I could find online and the price has been good. I've kept a decent stash so not sure what the current state of their availability is for this brand but I'll be starting there when I need more next year.