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Showing posts with label Traditional Sasha Dress. Show all posts

Evergreen Collection - Part 1


The models in this group are 3 gorgeous girls. Sasha is my 1968 blonde fringe girl with beautiful grey blue eyes, Katie is a 1969 Kilt girl and loves to wear her hair in plaits. Emilie is a beautiful Kelly Wenarsky repaint who wears a real hair wig in a lovely auburn shade.


Sasha is wearing a beautiful traditional style dress outfit. The dress has a very dainty leafy tendril pattern with dainty red flowers on a two toned ivory and cream background. I chose an ivory and cream patterned cotton for her collar, cuffs and pantalettes.

I chose a lovely greyish green polka dot fabric for her slip which perfectly matches the colour of the leafy tendrils on her dress.
Her socks are handknit using ivory lace weight shetland wool. She is wearing cream leather Boneka shoes.


Katie is wearing a beautiful sweater dress with a polo neck collar and a pocket at the front. It is hand dyed merino wool. There are many shades of green, aqua and grey in the dress. It is truly beautiful.








I teamed this dress with grey leggings and a beanie hat. This mid grey just seemed to make the colours in the dress glow. Beautiful combination.
It looks particularly stunning on my early blonde girl Katie. I think that is why I chose to put the cream coloured ugg boots with the outfit. I had been thinking of the chestnut coloured uggs but decided that the cream ones were the best choice.

Emilie is wearing a beautiful green flecked sweater and hat. They are knit using sock wool where the shades just seem to drift through each other from light to dark.
The green is ivy coloured and had a bluish tone which I used in the scarf which is knit using an ivy green, a blue and a very dark forest green lace weight wool. I have finished the scarf with a little tassel fringe.



Her trousers are a lovely shade of dark green needlecord.
Her hand knit socks match her hat and sweater and the outfit is completed with a pair of laced ankle boots.


The duffle coat is made from the very dark forest green with a toning lining fabric. It looks beautiful with the sweater outfit.
The duffle fastens with brown suede loops and darker toned wooden toggles.
The duffle is fully lined.



















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Evergreen Collection - Part 2



The models in this group are Keira (a rerooted brunette from 1969 - beautifully rerooted as a sidepart redhead by Lisa Hartley), an early 70's Sasha waif wearing a light ginger Peggy Sue wig, my beautiful and as yet unnamed puddle eyed brunette reroot (again by Lisa Hartley), and Greg my blonde gregor from 1970.



Keira is wearing a beautiful dark green leaf print cotton dress. The dress is drop waisted with a gathered two tiered skirt. Her contrasting belt is decorated at the front with a lovely white enamelled flat bead. Her pants are made using the same contrasting cotton fabric used in her belt.

Her socks and hair tie are knit using a pale green lace weight shetland wool.

The shoes are dark green leather Mary Jane shoes that I bought on ebay a few years ago but which I thought were perfect with this outfit. I felt she needed dark green shoes.



This sweater was based on a sweater pattern that I saw in a knitting magazine.

I loved the style of the cable detail and the rib detail at the neck that became her collar.


Her dark green leggings are a lovely contrast to the colour of her sweater.



Her sweater is knit using a loving sock yarn in sage, grey and a spring green. The colours drift through each other.



She has chestnut uggs which are perfect with the outfit.


Her earflap hat is knitted in a striped fairisle pattern using the same sock wool as her sweater, a plain dark green wool and an ivory wool. Plaited ties.



A beautiful traditional style dress outfit with peach/pink coloured flowers with darker sage green leafy tendrils set against a pale green background colour.


I chose a lovely contrast cotton fabric for her slip and pantalettes. It is a peachy/pink fabric with ivory polka dots.

White ribbed socks and cream leather laced Boneka boots.

She has a lovely matching fine ribbon tying her hair.




















Greg is wearing a cute hoody, another new sweater pattern. I used a lovely sock wool. There are 3 different shades of green in his sweater.
His trousers are a forest green needlecord. They are a new straight leg style.
His track shoes are black and white.

His mittens and socks are hand knit using pale green shetland lace weight wool.












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Evergreen Collection - Part 3


The models in Group 3 of Evergreen Collection are Natalie (a 1969 brunette waif wearing a Dollsmane wig), Rowena (Limited Edition Kiltie) and Lisa (a rerooted blonde Side-part girl).


Natalie is wearing a beautiful traditional style dress outfit. Her dress is made using two lovely contrasting cotton fabrics. The yoke is a deep red with gold spots. The rest of the dress is made using a lovely two tone green with little red and blue birds eating deep red grapes. A soft ecru lace collar.

Her slip is made from the same fabric as the yoke on her dress. Her pantalettes are the same green fabric as her dress.
Her socks are hand knit using ivory lace weight wool.
Her shoes are laced leather Boneka shoes.






Rowena is wearing a new style of hand knit cardigan using a hand dyed merino wool with 5 buttons on the front. I saw a cardigan in a magazine with a matching scarf which I loved, so I knit the cardigan with a small upright collar and a matching scarf. The cardigan has pockets. I matched the colour of the jacket to the brown tendrils on her blouse.
I used the same wool for her socks.

I found a lovely modern style clasp that looks lovely with the outfit.
Her trousers are dark green needlecord that matches the ivy leaves on her blouse.









Lisa is wearing a beautiful cotton dress with olive sage green leaves and tendrils and dainty red flowers. Her scarf is made using a fine sage green and ivory check cotton. Her sash is made from a pretty leafy patterned sage and ivory fabric. The same fabric was used for her pants. She has a fine ivory ribbon tying her hair.

Her socks are knit using ivory lace weight wool. Her shoes are cute red shoes reminiscent of the style I wore as a child.








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Autumn Landscape Collection: Part 2


The models used in this group are:

Amelia (a one of a kind Wenarsky repaint); Poppy (a Frido dungarees girl from 1968); John (early baby boy); Rowena (a limited edition trendon Kiltie).
I had great pleasure collecting the materials and wools for this collection. The colours were wonderful to work with.

Amelia is wearing a cute outfit hand knitted using two different sock wools. I loved the combination of the smudgy looking sock wools with the tie dyed rusty toned needlecord.
She is wearing socks knitted using lace weight shetland wool and beautiful brown leather boneka shoes.


I loved the control of the striped pattern contrasting with the random patterning on her trousers.

Amelia is a beautiful one of a kind girl created by Kelly Wenarsky. She has beautiful hazel eyes with hints of green.



Poppy is wearing a beautiful traditional style dress in a pretty cotton fabric. It has an upright collar and fine cuffs.

The slip and pantalettes are a beautiful contrasting colour picking up the main colour in the dress perfectly.

She is wearing ivory socks hand knit using lace weight shetland wool and beautiful cream leather old style laced boneka boots.


I love the early girls wearing their hair in plaits. It always looks so cute.


John my handsome early baby Gregor is wearing one of my new designs for this collection.

I used two wools in this outfit. The same patterned rusty coloured sock wool used in the outfit below and a lovely warm toned cream wool. They were used to great effect to knit the striped hat and footed trousers.

He has a beautiful cuddly Steiff polar bear which coordinates perfectly with his outfit.


John has the most amazing dark brown eyes.

His aran sweater features cabling on the front and sleeves. It fastens with 3 buttons on the back.

The outfit is finished with a lovely little ribbed scarf.

This outfit is just too cute for words.


This coat pattern has been a work in progress for a while. I really like how it has turned out and it is very cute made in the space dyed sock wool.

I wanted the fairisle top underneath to be fine and light and to pick up the colours in the coat without being the same. The blue worked as a good contrast. The oatmeal background makes the top look summery. I used lace weight shetland wool for this top.

In the end, I teamed this outfit with bootleg style denim trousers, as I loved how it brought out the blue pattern in the fairisle top.

Her socks are oatmeal coloured lace weight shetland wool and she wears boneka brown leather sandals.

Rowena, my beautiful LE Kiltie, suits these colours perfectly.

She has the loveliest light auburn hair and clear blue/grey eyes.
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