The crochet cloche

There was a revival of knitting and crochet as a craft pursuit in the mid 70's and lots of magazines had patterns for the crochet cloche, especially after Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974.

My dolly crochet cloche first appeared in 2003, part of the Seventie's Strut Cissy doll set. I loved this hat with its big red flowers and have tried it on lots of dolls since. Rin and Blythe were the first to try it.











2004 and Fleur looks beautiful in it. It looks fab over Cissy's orange hair too.
And here is Candy wearing it today.