All are now sold, including my shameless attempt at Princess Charlotte’s little cardigan for which I now have so many orders I’ll still be knitting it when she’s all grown up.

I’ll make them all very slightly different though so no two will be exactly the same 🙂

SCW this year was a great success but I didn’t take many photos because better photographers than me were recording it all for Sasha FB groups and their personal blogs so this is all I have to post. I did have the best time and that’s all thanks to the tireless efforts of the organisers and contributors, the craft demonstrators, raffle donors and organisers, doll costume makers and all the wonderful people who came from some very far-flung places to share their dolls and their enthusiasm and to make it so special for us all.

Sasha people are the best !  🙂

This week I’ve tried to scale up this simple, cabled cardigan ….

…to fit a Studio doll. It sounds easy but I don’t have a Studio or a Course doll so until its new owner tries it on I won’t know if it fits. Crossing all my fingers 🙂

Then I tried using an alpaca and silk blend yarn (70% alpaca + 30% silk)..

for 16″ Sasha and loved the feel of it and the soft sheen.

Here’s Fleur modelling and exercising Chewy at the same time 🙂

And here’s the difference in the two sizes..

….but Little Ted wants to come too and jumps in the basket and looks up at you with those appealing eyes…

 

So you take him along, but that’s not all he wants….

 

What he REALLY wants is a ride on your shoulders so that he can see more.

Come on then, Little Ted, and mind you don’t get your little claws caught in this new cardigan – I’m only modelling you know 😉

This set was knitted in Alpaca Drops (100% alpaca) 4 ply and has little pink pockets.

(Dress by Ruth and shoes by Rosie Bloom).

 

Several things 🙂 . Most of them will stay on needles for months until the spirit moves me to finish them, but what I did manage to finish this week was one that I started about 3 years ago and then fell out of love with the colour. It’s a pale tangerine Shetland  wool cardigan with little cables, modelled today by my brown-eyed Pintucks.

 

She’s a later one, #3852 and her eyes should be stable. She’s also wearing a lovely pair of silk blend ‘shortalls’ ? and blouse by Frances Trickett and shoes and socks by Mary Sampson, aka Betsymay. It felt good to finish this cardigan finally and get the use of my needles back 🙂 !

The other thing I’ve been knitting is a reindeer jumper which will have Norwegian style braid and clasps when it’s finished. You’re seeing it when most of the thread-sewing-in has been done. These little knits take a couple of hours just to weave the threads in on the inside.

 

 

 

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This is one I was happy to finish. I learned a lot in the process and I’m happy with the way it worked out. Now on eBay . Her perfectly matching boots are by Lisa.

I set out to knit a sweater dress this week…..but, after hours, days really, of knitting on fine dpns, inching very slowly upwards, I found when I’d cast off the neck that it was much too tight to go over Sasha’s head. I pulled it back. I cast off again and then found that the body was too tight and it was still a real struggle to get on and anyway it was too long in the body. I couldn’t face pulling it back again so now it’s one of many rejects that my girls get to keep. It has basic sleeves until I can muster the enthusiasm to finish them off. File that in the ‘live and learn’ box and move on…

I’m hoping I have learned something because now I’m making the next one wider, I’m going ‘top-down’ and leaving a small opening for buttons at the neck. Surely, this time !

Progress so far…………..

I’ll break it to them later that they can’t keep them  🙂

 

I hope you all had a good Christmas and are looking forward to a happy and healthy 2017 with all the creative and collecting opportunities that might hold.

After a very busy Christmas and New Year I couldn’t resist the urge to pick up the needles and make something.  There are so many things I want to knit this year, and maybe sew ? that whatever happens out there in non-Sasha-land, I’m really looking forward to this year 🙂