Babes in the Wool: How to Knit Beautiful Fashion Dolls

by Fiona McDonald

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844485093
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	07/09/2010
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Fiona McDonald studied classical painting and drawing at The Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, Australia from 1985 to 1989. After moving to the Blue Mountains, she began developing her unique oil-painted, needle-sculpted, life-size cloth figures, and her own line of fabric dolls and dragons. On returning to her home town of Armidale, Fiona added to her skills by learning to knit. This latest phase in her career has resulted in her developing designs for dolls and other toys.

Table of Contents

Easy-to-follow patterns and instructions make this book suitable for knitters of all abilities.
Nine stunning dolls to choose from, each with her own clothes and accessories.
All the clothes fit every doll in the book.
All the patterns can easily be adapted, allowing the reader to design dolls and outfits of their own.

Editorial Reviews

If you can knit, purl, increase and decrease, you should have no trouble completing the dolls in this book. And what a fun collection!

Knit Today

"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

"If you can knit, purl, increase and decrease, you should have no trouble completing the dolls in this book. And what a fun collection!  —Knit Today

"Long, leggy, 50cm tall, female dolls with narrow tubular legs and arms, flamboyant hair and a wide range of knitted clothing."  —Slipknot

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