Sasha Doll Style

The early part of January has been so beautiful here. I just wish I had been able to enjoy it better as I was suffering from an awful cold that just wouldn't lift! In the end I just had to stay in and stay warm.















We don't often get much snow or frost in the Winter and this year we had weeks of very cold frosty weather.

Winter Warmth Collection

Inspired by the cold weather outside, venturing out for walks wrapped up in scarves, mittens and cosy coats, and snug indoors in woolly sweaters and sitting by cosy open fires toasting our toes...

As Christmas approaches, I am putting up my Christmas tree but I love the old traditional Christmas decorations, the dark green holly with shiny red berries, little bunches of mistletoe hanging from the kitchen door frame, the contrast colours of the Golden Heart Ivy by the door, the last of the autumn colours clinging to the Japanese Acers and Witch Hazels.












These outfits are the start of the Winter Warmth Collection. I have been working on this collection for a while, although the custom orders are at the moment placing it on the back burner.













I loved working with these colours in my ideas book and have ended up with 4 pages of ideas for this Collection. The colours are such a pleasure to work with. I love the huge range of reds, plum, greens, golds and browns with the touch of ivory contained in my inspiration images. I enjoyed collecting the beautiful selection of wool, silk, tweed and bamboo yarns and the beautiful cotton fabrics and colours of corduroy.













I have not decided on all of the outfit styles yet so some of the colourways do not yet have notes beside them.

A New Sasha and Gregor story in Sasha at Home at http://www.sashadollstyle.co.uk/

http://www.sashadollstyle.co.uk/twelfth_night_of_christmas.htm

Hope you enjoy it.

I shall be working on taking photographs over the next couple of days of each of the outfits for updating http://www.sashadollstyle.co.uk/ and hope to have the website updated with the new collections by the end of the week.

Winter Frost Collection for Sasha, Gregor and toddlers.

Some of the styles I have made before in different colour combinations but several such as the two toddler outfits, the knitted jacket with the belt, the waistcoat, the striped shetland wool jacket and v-neck blue cardigan with drop waist dress are new to this collection.

My inspiration for the Winter Frost Collection came from a photograph I found in a gardening magazine. It was of yew berries on a yew tree covered in sparkling silvery white frost.














The colours were exquisite and I found myself putting together a collection of materials and wools that worked well with the theme. I love blues and Winter Frost has been a pleasure to create.

In this group of Sashas are: Sasha (1968 Frido fringe girl); Katie (late 60's Kilt girl); Esther (my brunette version Gotz toddler).


Sasha is wearing an elegant outfit. Her party dress is made using a fine floral cotton fabric and features a tiered skirt.

I thought the longer style shaped jacket looked elegant with the belt.

She is wearing matching pants and little white socks with navy leather boneka shoes.


Beside Sasha is my little brunette Esther. When I bought her her hair had already been coloured but in night light it looked salmon pink instead of ginger so I took the plunge and coloured her hair again.

Her smock is made using the same lovely bamboo sock yarn as Sasha's jacket. It is a new toddler outfit and the smock features a pretty textural bramble pattern and little turned up cuffs.

Her trousers are made using the same floral fabric as the dress sasha is wearing.

I completed the outfit with little shetland wool lace weight bootees tied with I-cord made from the same wool as her smock.

Sasha's knitted jacket is made using a beautiful bamboo sock yarn which has a fabulous sheen and drape when knitted with a lovely silky feel.

The colour of this outfit draws out the blue tones in her eyes.
I love this outfit on Katie.

The drop waist dress has a gathered skirt, v-neck and the short sleeves have a little pleat at the cuff. I matched the buttons to the beautiful green colour of the leaves. The buttons took a while to find but are really gorgeous.

The blue lace weight shetland wool cardigan has a v-neck style that fits perfectly beneath the collar of her dress. The blue is exactly the same colour as the blue flower on her floral dress and her blue shoes.

Her socks were knit using natural white lace weight shetland wool with a fine blue stripe.

As usual her pants match her dress fabric.