miniature knitting

This site is so gorgeous, I decided to put it in its own posting.

http://www.sew-coolseparates.com/dollclothing/id31.html

Wendy

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This site is so gorgeous, I decided to put it in its own posting.

http://www.sew-coolseparates.com/dollclothing/id31.html

Wendy

Lovely.

It reminds me of my childhood when I had two girl dolls, one white, one
black, about 7" high. I had a huge range of clothes for them because my
mother's magazine printed patterns every week, beginning in the 1940s. The
clothes were knitted, crocheted and sewn.

There was a very special issue in June 1953 when a full set of coronation
regalia was published. My mother and I made everything from scraps, I still
had the clothes when our first daughter was old enough to appreciate them
but when I opened the box the moth had ravaged everything - even the
patterns :-(

Mary

On Jun 4, 11:21 am, myswendy wrote:
This site is so gorgeous, I decided to put it in its own posting.

http://www.sew-coolseparates.com/dollclothing/id31.html

Just beautiful! Can you imagine knitting those?

Higs,
Katherine

On Jun 4, 11:42 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
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This site is so gorgeous, I decided to put it in its own posting.

http://www.sew-coolseparates.com/dollclothing/id31.html

Wendy

Lovely.

It reminds me of my childhood when I had two girl dolls, one white, one
black, about 7" high. I had a huge range of clothes for them because my
mother's magazine printed patterns every week, beginning in the 1940s. The
clothes were knitted, crocheted and sewn.

There was a very special issue in June 1953 when a full set of coronation
regalia was published. My mother and I made everything from scraps, I still
had the clothes when our first daughter was old enough to appreciate them
but when I opened the box the moth had ravaged everything - even the
patterns :-(


Oh, no! You must have been rotted!

Higs,
Katherine

Those are lovely, Wendy. Reminds me of my Grandma's knitted outfits she
would make us for our Barbie dolls when we were little, and she never
followed a written pattern. Hers weren't as detailed as those that you
posted, but even so, I can't imagine knitting something that tiny!

Thanks for sharing!

lisa
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On Jun 4, 9:27 pm, "Karlisa" wrote:
Those are lovely, Wendy. Reminds me of my Grandma's knitted outfits she
would make us for our Barbie dolls when we were little, and she never
followed a written pattern. Hers weren't as detailed as those that you
posted, but even so, I can't imagine knitting something that tiny!

Thanks for sharing!

lisa
,

My pleasure, Lisa! What a great memory of handmade Barbie clothes. Did
you save them?
ps--That website keeps changing too!

Wendy

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On Jun 4, 9:27 pm, "Karlisa" wrote:
Those are lovely, Wendy. Reminds me of my Grandma's knitted outfits she
would make us for our Barbie dolls when we were little, and she never
followed a written pattern. Hers weren't as detailed as those that you
posted, but even so, I can't imagine knitting something that tiny!

Thanks for sharing!

lisa
,

My pleasure, Lisa! What a great memory of handmade Barbie clothes. Did
you save them?
ps--That website keeps changing too!

Wendy

Unfortunately, the Barbie clothes were 100% wool and got moth-eaten up in
Mama's attic back in the 1970s. We do still have a couple of lovely little
things that Grandma made, though, a wool knitted baby bottle warmer she made
for me when I was born (1963), and an lovely lace pinafore she made for my
older sister out of perwinkle-colored crochet cotton back in the 1950s. The
bottle warmer is so cute--a knitted poodle that the bottle is stashed in.
Grandma was so talented with needle work. She was born in rural Michigan in
the 1880s, so she learned to make some amazing things, mostly out of
necessity.

:-) I'll check out the website again!

lisa

I used to knit and crochet and the like for 1/12scale, when I was into dolls house stuff.
I still have a book called Dolls' House Needlecrafts by Venus A. Dodge
the book can be bought at amazon and it is full of little sweaters shawls rugs throws even a mini hot waterbottle cover as well as teacosy etc Over 250 projects in 1/12 scale

well worth looking for.

higz Cher

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I used to knit and crochet and the like for 1/12scale, when I was into
dolls house stuff.
I still have a book called Dolls' House Needlecrafts by Venus A. Dodge
the book can be bought at amazon and it is full of little sweaters shawls
rugs throws even a mini hot waterbottle cover!

I've never seen a dolls' house hwb :-)

as well as teacosy etc Over 250 projects in 1/12 scale

well worth looking for.

It sounds delightful!

Mary

On Jun 6, 2:43 am, "Y?" wrote:
I used to knit and crochet and the like for 1/12scale, when I was into dolls house stuff.
I still have a book called Dolls' House Needlecrafts by Venus A. Dodge
the book can be bought at amazon and it is full of little sweaters shawls rugs throws even a mini hot waterbottle cover as well as teacosy etc Over 250 projects in 1/12 scale

well worth looking for.

higz Cher

Oh wow! Thanks for the tip! I'll go look at it.
Wendy