I doubt that they will release patterns. They never provided girl sized patterns, even when the first doll patterns came out and the girl-sized clothes were still available. I'm guessing that the venture into selling doll clothes patterns was an expensive one for Pleasant Co. They had to tool up and get the patterns drafted, the directions written, everything printed -- and then home sewers grabbed the patterns and started reproducing the clothes that Pleasant Co. was selling, in competition with them! When Vogue started coming out with their version of the same items, some nearly identical, it was only a matter of time before Pleasant Co. backed out of that particular line of business.
I remember -- in 1992 there were no patterns sized for AG dolls, and I had to modify some that McCalls made for medium-sized toddler dolls. By 1995, every major pattern company had a full line of doll clothes patterns for each historical period plus some modern outfits. Vogue anticipated, as I did, that the next AG doll would be Native American and released their own Indian doll pattern and wardrobe just before the first AG of Today dolls were announced in Sept. It was the first mis-step I saw Vogue make. They recovered nicely. But when even the AGT halloween costumes were copied by Vogue, it became pretty clear that American Girl should stay out of the pattern business because the competition was so close behind them all the time! And with all the home sewers selling their creations on ebay now, there's even less incentive for AG to return to selling patterns.





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