Sasha Doll Style

31 August 2010

Continuation of the Mini Mochi sweater is coming along... slowly...

The first sleeve is finished...  As I like my sleeves to match and the colour variation in the ball of yarn were not going to allow me to get a repeat without a lot of wastage if at all...

I carefully unravelled the yarn and cut it at the end of each colour repeat (tricky as the colours blend through each other beautifully) and then divided each of these exactly in half so that I get the movment of the colours on the sleeves to match each other as perfectly as possible.  I just like them to match and if they don't I am not as happy with them. 

It is turning out to be a very pretty sweater.

30 August 2010

A lovely new free knitting pattern for Sasha and Gregor dolls.

I have created a page for the knitting patterns so they will be easy to find. 

I hope you will enjoy knitting it.

The Sasha in the photographs is Sarah the first Sasha doll I ever bought for myself and the second Sasha doll I have ever owned.  She is a pretty brunette girl from the mid 70's.  When I bought her I had never even heard of falling hair.  I was incredibly lucky that her hair is perfect.  Probably because she had been played with and not stored in an attic.  She has beautiful eyes and her fringe likes to flick over to the side.  Her other main attribute is that one leg is quite a bit shorter than the other so she stands rather nicely. 

When she arrived in time for Christmas, I brought her down to show my mum and we placed her on the mantel piece beside Jane and just sat looking at the two of them together... 

This pattern is for the 3 colour version. 

I used a similar pattern knitted using 2 colours for the sweater that is photographed with the other free pattern on the blog for the scarf and hat.

20 August 2010

I know I should be working on the duffle coat... and I have been working on it...

but Murder She Wrote was starting on BBC1...

and this ball of Mini Mochi by Crystal Palace Yarns was just calling to me...

it arrived before I went away and it has been sitting waiting for me to come home...

sitting on top of my stash, I hadn't even put it away in the appropriate storage box... (yes I have 26 storage boxes full of gorgeous wool all wound into balls and sorted into colour families awaiting use)

but the colours in this ball are just so beautiful that my resistance melted away...

the yarn is unusual... very little twist in it but incredibly soft to the touch...