Hey guess what? It’s not a random blue square!
Saturday sky! It’s grey and it’s cold. Finally, something different. And look what happened yesterday.
Water fell from the sky. Trust me, it’s almost that much of an event in Sydney these days. As soon as it starts, front doors open everywhere, and all through the neighbourhood, people stand on their front porches, just looking out at this stuff called rain.
It made for a pretty sunset.
No reall knitting updates, each row on Spring Blossoms is taking around half an hour now, and each Icarus row takes around 20 minutes. Makes for little progress.
I’ve dabbled in many crafts, one of them being porcelain doll making. I was looking at my dolls the other day, and this little one that I’d forgotten about caught my eye.
Row counter included for scale. She’s around 6 and a half inches (16cm) tall. Her little dress is knit from Size 12 DMC Perle cotton on 1.25mm knitting needles.
To be honest, I don’t even really remember the details of knitting the dress, although it would have been around 10 years ago. I had to go look for the pattern today to find the details.
I made the same doll for my mum, too, in the same dress, although hers has knickers, and I got lazy, and my dolly remains naked under her dress (!).
Here’s some close up detail, my finger included for scale.
The pins mark an inch.
The gauge is 15sts per inch. And I knit it twice. And look, crochet edges! I do vaguely remember one of the ladies in my doll class helping me with the crochet.
The dress is badly in need of blocking, but I’m rather proud of it. I’m determined to knit the knickers now, although I can’t remember where I got the thread or the needles, so they probably won’t be a perfect match, but I think the poor little dear deserves some panties!
Beautiful little dolly. I love her face and hair.
Wow, you got more of that wet stuff than we did. I can’t imagine knitting such a small dress, but yes, she definitely needs knickers ;O)
I love the dool dress it’s very pretty!
Your sock in previous post is very neat! If you need help writing the pattern let me know I’ll be happy to help as well as test knit
Great work and detail on the doll dress. Such tiny stitches!
I’m so glad you finally got your much-needed rain! Love the dolly dress — I crochet that small all the time, but I can’t imagine knitting that small. Wow! I’m impressed!
your doll has a very pretty face – for some odd reason i’m in love with her nose and mouth…did you do the face or did it already come made? her dress is very pretty too!
How cute and sweet. My neighbour used to make little porcelain dolls and large ones too. She even won prizes for hers as well. I love the little dress as well. We had rain Friday which was very nice, it actually felt like it was Spring.
She is just beautiful, you are very clever Donna. Rainwise it’s the same here in Melbourne too, we are all in much need of rain.
What a pretty little dress! It would drive me nuts if I made something and lost the pattern. Hope you find that pattern soon.
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Rain is wonderful when you need it isn’t it? We’ve had rain off/on for the last two weeks, then Friday-Sunday were sunny, only up to 70 F if that.
The doll is beautiful!!