Saturday 7 April 2018

Vintage 80s Knitting Patterns - Part 3

You know the drill...


It's time to kick-back, relax and indulge in more 1980s vintage knitting - 22 vintage jumper, vest top and cardigan patterns coming up now. 

Proceed at your own peril.


Vintage 1980s Knitting Pattern - Jarol Ladies' Square Neck Top 


Monday 2 April 2018

Knitted Pencil Mini - Dress for Petite Blythe or Little Pullip - Free Knitting Pattern


As promised months ago, here is my pattern for a miniature knitted pencil dress, designed for both Petite Blythe dolls, Dollcena Dolls and Little Pullips. 


Little Pullip Doll in custom Hand-Knit Pencil Dress 

The pink mini pencil dress, worn by the Little Pullip doll above required less than 2 grams of yarn. I used Araucania Botany lace, which is a 4 ply fingering weight sock yarn, but any sock yarn with similar attributes will be suitable for this pattern. The construction of the dress allows you to easily adjust the design when fitting the dress on your doll whilst knitting. 

Knitted seamlessly in the round from the bottom up, the pencil dress is secured at the back of the doll's neck with the help of two i-cords. The simple design can be customised by adjusting both the length of the dress itself and the length of the i-cords. In two prototypes of the design (worn by a Takara Tomy Dollcena below) I turned the mini into a maxi dress, but overall I prefer the shorter version.

Takara Tomy Dollcena Doll in Knitted Pencil Maxi Dress