Two Dollswest knits for Unoa

Trance is wearing "Durango" sweater and Jemini is wearing the "starfish" cardi - both patterns by Dollswest.











Durano is knitted with the softest Malabrigo laceweight in Bobby Blue. Though the pattern is very effective I didn't enjoy knitting it and struggled with the changing knit and purl texture.



The cable cardigan that I call "starfish" is in Regia Hand Dye Effect sock yarn and Jamieson and Smith Shetland laceweight.

MSD Knitwear

I have spent nearly all this week making up and sewing on poppers and buttons, getting ready for a doll meet at the weekend.





This pattern always surprises me, it looks so small when being knitted and then after it's sewn up it looks smaller still, I never think it will fit a msd size doll but it does!



I started knitting this in 2011! And then I got into a hate relationship with Kid Silk Haze and so left this.
We're all sorted now and I finished it easily!!! It's too short for Meridian but I think the hood looks cute on her.



I really enjoy knitting these roll-neck sweaters (Dollswest pattern).



Favourite colours!

Two fair-isles

The brown one is from a Scotty Maloney kit that I bought years ago. It's sized for an 18" vinyl doll like Kitty Collier.


The black and red one is a heavily adapted Dollswest pattern.

Weekend knitting

Finished one sleeve of the SD guy sweater.
A Blythe cardi using up the last of a favourite sock yarn. (keeping this).
Finished the roll neck sweater (msd size) for upcoming Valentines maybe?
Another basic top down raglan, also msd size. (knitted most of this while watching Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol).

Stripes and cables

These two jumpers are my most favourite doll jumpers that I've ever knitted. (DWD pattern). I was inspired by a Patricia Roberts sweater that combined stripes and cables and so adapted the pattern.

Finished!

One from the pile completed.

I knitted this simple top-down raglan over two evenings using Fortissima Mexico sock yarn on size 2mm needles.

My progress yesterday!

So, because I really wanted to read "The 39 Steps", (which is brilliant, by the way!), I started three new projects as I wanted to do plain knitting while reading.

Dark green is for Super Gem/Dollshe size.
Lime green is SD size.
Pink is MSD size.