Knits and Crafts

[tephra]

Yep, about time for an update. Before I cut for images I feel I should inform you all that there is a shift in my knitting lately. You see, someone *cough*toshirodragon/TamashiToshiro@IJ*cough* sent me an extremely unexpected and generous birthday gift. As a result, my knit and craft urges have been focused on that gift for the past month.

First, the last thing I finished before my birthday:



Now I can say I've knit entrelac. I also knit all the purl side rows from the knit side, aka "knitting backwards".

Okay, onto the gift and the stuff I've made for it.

First, I made a wig, starting with a crocheted wig cap:



It's blurry, but enough to give the idea, it gets covered in "hair" anyway.



Then, to warm up to tiny knitting (well, she's about Barbie sized, so not REALLY tiny, but definitely the tiniest thing I've knit for) I made slippers.



And then I sewed some shorts for her. Tiny sewing is even more of a challenge than tiny knitting!



Then I felt I really should make something for Kris and her boys:



Maybe she'll show up to and post a picture of it on Nicco.

Then, since Nicco was getting the fish hat and Hajime was getting some things, I made this for Tamas (and Nicco):



I love that background stitch, and the cable is pretty awesome if I do say so myself.

Back to making stuff for my girl, something from Vogue Knitting (winter 2008).



It's from Vogue, you can totally wear it open with nothing under it! But since I wouldn't, she wouldn't, so I made her something to go under it.



So that's Anjeni.



And I really must photograph her in daylight more often than in front of the PC after midnight.

Comments

[toshirodragon.livejournal.com]

They say that love is half of what makes the doll so adorable! I say it's the SPOILING! hahahahahaha

My Princess in his hat:

[morganalilith.livejournal.com]

absolutely lovely :-)

i LOVE the wig.

[tephra]

There is so much yarn in that wig, it's insane. I love the color(s) but it's cotton so it's not going to hold up well. :( I'm browsing around for nylon or saran hair in the right colors to make her a "proper" wig. Adventures in hand tying weft are in my future.

[morganalilith.livejournal.com]

i made a wig for a 'waldorf style doll' for my youngest step daughter a few years ago. i used worsted weight wool and was amazed at the amount of yarn. it quickly became obvious why most waldorf dolls have fine mohair yarn for hair, lol.

she's very cool. keep posting pics of the process. knitting tiny stuff can be addictive. i was making kelly clothes (barbies little sister) a number of years ago and selling them on ebay. after using 0000 needles for a while, size 6's seemed unwieldy, lol

[tephra]

Mohair is really popular with the Asian ball-jointed dolls like Anjeni too, especially on small ones like her. I'm looking the nylon hair at DollyHair.com. According to their guidelines I would need 3 of the 38" bundles, if I cut them in half, or 6 pony bundles. Since I like her tri-colored hair I was thinking pony bundles, 3 in peaches and cream, 2 in carrot cake or English toffee, and 1 in tiramisu or buttercreme. It will skew her hair darker in that proportion (she's currently 1:1:2 in peach:brown:off-white) but I think it would look good. I want to emphasize the peach. :) But then, they do 2 color blends for free, so I could do peaches & cream/peach cobbler, carrot cake/English toffee, and tiramisu/buttercreme.... visiting that site always makes me want dessert. :D

Currently my smallest needles are 0s, so nothing too too tiny yet. I think the Susan Bates sock set has 00s in it, so if I see one of those I may grab it (I could use another set of 0s though I have plenty of 1s, 2s, and 3s). Otherwise maybe I'll fork out for some Hiya Hiya teeny tiny circulars in magic loop reasonable lengths. We'll see how addicted I get to the tiny needles.

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

She's AMAZING!

[tephra]

Thank you! She's a bit of a work in progress, but from what I understand most ball-joint dolls are. :) I have to do some scary things like take her completely apart and restring her to she poses better, but I'm putting that off as long as I can stand to. :D