A few people have written to me saying the doll clothes patterns are much too small to fit their American Girl Dolls. If this has happened to you, there’s a good reason. Here’s how to correct it.
Before you print your doll clothes patterns, it’s necessary to adjust the settings on your printer. If you don’t do this, your printer may automatically reduce the size of the pattern pieces to fit within standard 1-inch wide margins. This results in the pattern, and therefore the finished outfit, being too tight for your American Girl Dolls.
Proper fit depends on preventing your printer from scaling the patterns.
- In your printer’s settings, make sure the box next to ‘Scale to Fit” is NOT checked.
- Then set your margins to 1/2-inch all around.
- If you have the option, print the document at 100%.
Also remember to save your doll clothes patterns on your computer, so you can use them over and over. Your American Girl Dolls will thank you for it.
March 12th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Thanks for the hobo bag pattern. As soon as I got some spare time…:-( Absolutely love the money. No more window shopping for my girls!