Category Archives: Doll Hats

Hang Onto Your Hat!

I don’t like hats on myself, never have and probably never will. I think from the moment I could take them off of myself, I probably did. The only way that I would cover my head and ears in the coldest weather was with a hood on my coat, so my mom made sure that all of my coats had hoods. Luckily, my dolls will wear whatever I put on them, and they look adorable in hats, I think.

These are my all-time favorite fall/winter hats that I’ve made for my dolls. Sorry, some of them you probably saw yesterday.

Also, I have one of my Pinterest board this morning (hat inspiration) that I’d like to share with you.

Here is my Pinterest board.

These days I will wear a hat, but only if I am going on a long walk and it is too cold for a headband. What about you, are you a hat person?

Bye for now!

Sweater Weather is Here

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Blustery, Cloudy, Cool! This is our weekend weather forecast for northern Illinois. I don’t mind—it’s sweater weather!

I went through my older photos and found my warmest looking fall sweaters. Most of these are knit with a fingering weight Peruvian Highland wool.

These tiny sweater were all made for Kish’s little BJD, Lisbet. She came before Amelia Thimble and is slightly larger. I hand dyed all (except natural, of course) of the lace yarn (merino/silk) in fall colors.

Bethany’s sweater was knit with a Sport weight wool to make an even warmer sweater for chilly fall weather.

This striped sweater for Patsy was a “weaving in ends” project, but I love how it turned out.

Fall is Colored Brightly 742

Gina’s natural colored sweater was knit with a fingering weight wool/angora yarn.

orange you ready for fall 141

If it’s cool where you are I hope these photos warmed you up a bit.

Cozy fall weekend wishes to everyone in this half of the world!

Bye for now and thank you for reading along.

Christmas Ensembles from Years Past

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Last week I showed you my Christmas ensembles from 2014. I was able to finish quite a few last year, but not as many as I would like to complete this year; after all they are the my favorite holiday themed ensembles to create.

So, last year wasn’t bad, but this is what happens when I don’t start early enough, plan ahead, have a goal, etc. You get the picture. These are from 2012 and 2013 with most being made for Amelia Thimble, so are tiny and much quicker to make. I plan on doing much better this year!

Patience got her one and only (so far) fun Christmas set in 2013.

I made two Christmas ensembles for Kish Bethany in 2012. This first one is more formal than the one my blonde Bethany is wearing. I think that this was probably the first sweater I made out of the mohair/silk lace yarn that I use so much now.

This was the second outfit that I made for my then new (2013) Pukipuki Sugar doll from Fairyland. I was tickled pink at how the jingle bell stayed on her hand due to the tiny magnets embedded in her palms.

And Amelia Thimble got a dress to match Sugar’s.

In 2013, I discovered that taking photos in front of our Christmas tree looked rather pretty, don’t you think?

This dress for Amelia was meant to look like she was wearing a wrapped present in unique Christmas colors. I took my color inspiration from the tiny wrapped present props.

Here’s another made with a unique Christmas color palette and embroidered with red and pink poinsettias.

And another in blue with holly and pink Christmas roses.

The green dress for Amelia was made to be a Christmas tree with tiny embroidered ornaments on it. I even painstakingly embroidered tiny gold loops so that the ornaments could hang from the ribbon garland. By the way, it is not fun at all to embroider with metallic thread. I’ve never used it again, that is how much “fun” it is.

I’ve always loved pink poinsettias!

As you can see, I made lots of Christmas sets for Amelia Thimble.

Doesn’t that snowy background look lovely? Well, maybe not yet…

Bye for now, and thank you so much for reading along with me and looking at the Christmas photos of my past work. No wonder Amelia Thimble is a spoiled little thing!

Oh, and enjoy the last official day of summer!!!