Teenie Gem dresses - finished - nearly!

In the end, I managed to make 9 little dresses from one ball of Noro Sekku, shade #8. Okay, the ninth one is a half dress!

Now to make them all up!

Cosy Leo

Leo is wearing a cosy hoody last seen on this blog here

Teenie Gem dresses 4 & 5

Continuing the Teenie Gem dress project see here





Dress #4 browns - on Little Fleur.
Dress #5 greens - on Coco Rosy

I reckon I can make another 4 dresses from the remaining yarn!

Wild Rice Hoody

Here is a favourite piece of Tonner clothing - the Wild Rice Hoody from the 2004 Winter White Boutique collection.



It fits my Sharmin doll very well.



I've always liked this picture of her.

Basic jumper pattern

A new free pattern up on the Dollswest site. A good looking basic jumper.

Teenie Gem dresses

A quick snap of the Teenie Gem dress project, made from Noro Sekku see here



Dress #1 greeny, yellow, white on Gayle.
Dress #2 red, brown, yellow - can just see it on Shasta peeking behind Evelyn's legs!
Dress #3 turquoise and royal blues on Mer-Rin.

Must. Knit. These.

More Scotty Maloney kits, bought years ago for 18" Kitty Collier doll. It would be good to finally make them. Maybe I can adapt them.

Cream cable sweater

I used to have this Tonner Aran sweater and wish I still did (but I could knit one!) So I am posting these pictures to remind me. I like this picture of a Narae wearing it plus here are some older pictures of mine - the jumper looks good on both Kitty Collier and Tyler.

White and fluffy!

No, not a kitten!

I've just finished knitting the ribbed cardigan with long sleeves in Kid Silk Haze, #603 Pearl. It looks so different in this soft and fluffy yarn. Very feminine. Worth the stuggle, because I do find knitting with this yarn a struggle. I don't know why, I just don't get on with it very well.



Pattern is an adapted Dollswest one - see here and here

Snowflake

I was making a pink version of this - nearly finished it as well and then I left it. I'd like to try and finish some of these Scotty M kits this year. Much more fun if they were being worn!

Noro Sekku again, again!

Opal and Trance wearing my cropped Noro Sekku cardigans.
I used the same pattern for both but added a hood to one of them. I really like this style, it's so versatile.
But I think I would make the sleeves narrower, not so narrow as not to be able to fit over a t.shirt, but not so flared at the bottom.

Nostalgia

This cardigan was one of the first pieces of doll knitting I'd completed for fashion dolls. I bought 3 Scotty Maloney kits, back in 2002 and made a hooded sweatshirt, a Nordic snowflake cardigan and this fair isle yoke cardi.
The sleeves are a tad short for a BJD size doll. Maybe it's time to try this again?



On Leo in 2007


On Little Ruby in 2007.


On Brenda Starr in 2002.

Rib knit

Polly is wearing a lovely rib knit pullover made by Gill. This was originally for a Tyler doll but the stretchy rib fits well over a Narae's hands. I think Polly looks fab in it.

I do have the pattern somewhere, I think it uses 4/0 needles and very fine yarn but it would be so worth doing, such a classic design.



These lovely socks were a present from my friend Jane and they were knitted by her Mum. Though I do knit socks it's a real treat to receive some that I haven't made. They are so soft and beautifully knitted.

Moody in black

Grae in a favourite black jumper by Ajumpapama.



Who else has worn it over the years?

Flynn in 2005.



Brin in 2007



Hook in 2008



and Jones wore a mini version.



Cool and moody guys!

Bunch of knits

A very pleasing group, colour wise!



And a close up of the Reveal sweater I made a couple of years ago.



A lot of my dolls are now kitted out with woolly stuff. It's been a good year knitting for the dolls, designing and working on patterns, sourcing new fine yarns. I think this year I would like to do more and hopefully sell, maybe open an Etsy shop.

Interesting sleeves

I think this kind of jumper would suit Lorelei very well. I do like those sleeves and think I could do them on a top down.

Oh and Happy New Year!!