Category Archives: Sweaters

Happy Valentine’s Day from Patience

Patience is so happy to have a Valentine’s Day ensemble to model for you. Isn’t she “LOVE”ly in it? This festive outfit features all of the requisite Valentine’s Day colors, shades of red and pink, and ivory. Delicate English cotton cluny lace decorates the hemline. There are lots of hand embroidered hearts in this outfit, the crocheted headband alone has a dozen. To get all of the pieces to coordinate to my liking I hand dyed (and custom mixed most dyes) the silk ribbon, Peruvian Highland wool for the sweater, cotton fabric to match the heart print’s background, and cotton Lycra for the tights.

Patience’s little bracelet is made with freshwater pearls. Here’s a close up of the lace, isn’t it delicate?

A dozen hearts in five different shades are embroidered on Patience’s headband. A “corsage” of hearts adorns her shoulder.

Patience wants to be your Valentine.

Patience & Amelia Thimble Model New Sister Set

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Wilde Imagination’s Patience and Amelia Thimble dolls are here to show you their brand new sister set that I just completed for them. I used this corduroy print once last year making an outfit for Helen Kish’s Bethany doll and loved working with these colors so much that I decided to use it again for Patience. Of course if Patience gets a new outfit then Amelia gets a coordinating set too. The embroidery on this set is a different stitch for me. Because the flowers are pastel on a darker yarn I had to make them more solid so they would show up nicely. I put a lazy daisy stitch around straight stitches and was very happy with the end result. Does anyone know if this stitch has a name?

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Patsy’s New Fall Outfit

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Tonner’s Patsy doll has a new sweater and skirt set that she wants to model for you. I tried something different this time and made her a gathered skirt with an a-line sweater. This corduroy print is so pretty with so many different fall colors.

I picked out seven colors of wool for the sweater. Who could pick just one??? Yes, the weaving in of the ends was a lot of work, but well worth the effort, don’t you think? I thoughtfully arranged the stripes to look their best and got to repeat the first three colors once more. The sleeves and body came out the perfect length (and exactly the same!) which made me very happy. I felt like I had good knitting karma (or the knitting gods) with this one.