Don’t know sewing? No problem – dress up your Barbie in this easy, no-sew Barbie dress made using little more than an old sock!

How many of you are tired of seeing Barbies lying around the house in various stages of disarray? I certainly am!!

Lil P has 7 Barbies, gifted by friends and doting grandparents. On a whim, she keeps changing their dresses and with the dolls having stiff hands and unsightly shapes, most of their original dresses are torn.

This morning was the last straw. I went to clean up her playroom and saw 7 Barbies all in a state of undress. When I asked her why, Lil P said that they didn’t have any night dresses. My girl had tried to tie a kerchief around them and then forgot about it. She declared that her Barbies needed more dresses that were easy to put on and remove.

I took a look at some Barbie clothes online – they cost nearly as much as a human child’s t-shirt! That’s when I began to wonder if I could DIY my way around spending money. And I hit upon a brilliant idea!

I picked up her old socks lying around (the ones she had outgrown) and I had kept them aside to make gnomes – a snip here and a snip there and voila! We had our very own no-sew Barbie dress. 

No-Sew Barbie Dress Using an Old Sock

Supplies required:

• Old sock, 2-4 years size
• Scissors
• Sequins, buttons (optional)
• Needle and thread (optional)
• Ribbon

How to make the No-Sew Barbie Dress:

1. Lay down an old sock flat on a table. We’ve chosen a 2-4-year-old size since it works best for Barbie’s size – the heel part falls correctly over Barbie’s bottom. 

2. Cut the toe end of the sock as shown in the picture below.

3. If you want to make it fancier, you can use stick some sequins on the dress. Or you can tie up the dress at the waist using a ribbon as a belt. 

Don’t these lasses look pretty now? I made them a little trendy by adding a satin bow to their waist. Lil P is over the moon. We turned our white socks into nightwear and the colored ones for daytime. Now no one needs to worry about having nothing to wear – day or night!

If you’d like to check out more doll-related projects, here you go:

• Peg Doll Mermaid Craft
• DIY Wooden Peg Doll Gnomes
• DIY Sock Doll in a Saree
• Disney Paper Dolls Printable