Dolly Clothes

Recipient: Shoshana Hutner Rosen
Designer: Unknown - I'll look it up
Pattern: Various - I'll look them up
Source: Unknown - I'll look them up
Completed: February 16, 2007
Colours: Dress: baby pink and canary yellow; shirt-and-jumper: red, white, royal blue
Yarn: Zellers brand/Patons Astra, 100% acrylic sportweight
Completed status: Given at party on February 17, 2007
Pictures:

front of dress


back of dress (are those buttons not the PERFECT match...and the best part is that they came from my button stash!)


shirt-and-jumper outfit


front of shirt and jumper


back of shirt and jumper


all the clothes, with my hand included for scale so you can plotz at how small and cute everything is

2007-Feb-20

One of my best friends had a birthday party for her daughter on Saturday (she's now 3). We received the invitation about two weeks ahead of time, so about week before the party I started thinking about what would be a good present to bring. I wanted it to be a really excellent present, since this is a very special friend and Shoshana (the birthday girl) is a really delightful kid.

And I thought...hey...she has a super-favourite doll - who goes by the singularly unique name of "Dolly" - that she carries around all the time. What if I knitted some nice outfits for Dolly? That would be really special!

Thus, on Wednesday evening, I found myself poring through my little Patons booklet of doll pattterns and diving through my stash of acrylic sportweight yarn. I was really fretful that I wouldn't get even one dress done on time, but I needn't have worried. By the time I went to bed on Wednesday (at a fairly reasonable hour, I might add), the skirt of the first dress was done. I finished knitting it on Thursday, and by Friday night, I'd done all the finishing AND had completed a shirt-and-jumper set, too. I was really pleased with how it all turned out, especially since I used up many annoyingly small balls of yarn almost completely.