Synopses & Reviews
With these easy-to-follow patterns and instructions, knitters of all skill levels will be able to create nine dolls from three basic designsat a finished size of 20 or 23 inches talleach with a distinctive style, personality, and matching wardrobes. In addition to featuring designs for 35 pieces of trendy apparel and accessories, the handbook lays out how to construct bodies, faces, and hair and provides templates for eyebrows, eyes, and mouths. While there are specific instructions for dolls ranging from Samantha, the sports enthusiast, and Willow, the sophisticated Celtic beauty, to Rose, the water lover, and Poppy, the party girl, the patterns can easily be adapted to create any type of doll. The use of different colors of yarn, varying yarn types, and an assortment of trims and adornments also enhances the opportunity for creativity. All of the clothing and accessoriesbikinis, coats, dresses, handbags, hats, mini skirts, scarves, sweaters, swimsuits, and topsare fully interchangeable between dolls to create a myriad of looks.
Review
"This book provides easy to use knitting patterns for making stylish, fun dolls, including a fabulous range of knitted clothes and accessories." Machine Knitting Monthly
Synopsis
Create wonderful knitted dolls with a fantastic range of knitted clothes and accessories, including coats, sweaters, mini skirts, dresses, tops, bikinis, swimsuits, scarves, hats and bags. There are nine dolls to choose from, each with her own distinctive style and personality, and with a wardrobe to match. They include sports-mad Samantha, Willow the sophisticated Celtic beauty, water-loving Rose and party-girl Poppy, to name just four, though all the dolls can easily be adapted to create characters of your own. The clothes are all interchangeable, so each doll can have as many outfits as she wants, and all of the items can be made using different colours and yarns to create an even more extensive wardrobe. There are easy-to-follow instructions for making the bodies, faces and hair, including handy templates for eyes, mouths and eyebrows, and the simple patterns mean that knitters of all abilities can enjoy making these dolls. Ideal for using up scraps and oddments of yarn, buttons and trims, these dolls will delight and inspire older children as well as adults.
Synopsis
Fiona McDonald provides easy-to-use knitting patterns for making stylish, fun dolls, including a fabulous range of knitted clothes and accessories. This book contains all the inspiration you need to design and create knitted dolls of your own.
About the Author
Fiona MacDonald is an artist and a designer who specializes in oil-painted, needle-sculpted, life-size cloth figures. She is the developer of a line of fabric dolls and dragons and of designs for dolls and other toys.