Helene's First Half Dolls

The following three skirts were knitted by

 Helene Chelle.

This was Helene's first attempt at knitting the beaded skirts and although she had trouble with the casting on,she persisted and finished the 3 lovely skirts that you see below.

This doll is called Gwendoline,she is dressed in a pattern from Anlaby called Clara Belle of the Ball.

Helene choose beads no.444-DY 

and D.M.C.cotton no.3687

This pattern takes 6 hanks of beads

 and 2 Balls of cotton.

Half doll Coquette wears another dress pattern from Anlaby called 

Annabelle.

The beads used in this dress are no 478 and have been teamed with D.M.C. cotton 796.

The pattern takes 3 hanks of beads 

and 2 balls of cotton.

Helene chose the free pattern from this blog 

to dress the doll Edwina.

Using the beautiful coloured beads no.484 

with D.M.C. cotton no.909.

This pattern take 3 hanks of beads

 and 2 balls of cotton.

Links

Anlaby Patterns

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Clara Bell at the Ball

Annabelle

Eleanor

Bev's Half Doll no.2

Bev also knitted this stunning dress.

Sylvia is dressed in a pattern from Karen Green

called Debra Out Strolling.

This stunning skirt is adapted from the pattern

by Karen Green.Instead of knitting the

V shaped top as per pattern,

I just added a knitted waist band,

which is shown in the video in the

tutorials page.

Bev used bead no. 651 and D.M.C. cotton 712

Contrasting bead no.7283.

This pattern uses 2 x hanks of main coloured beads

with 2 x balls of main colour cotton.

1 x hank of beads for contrasting bead.

Pattern by Karen Green called

Debra out Strolling.

Links

Pattern Debra Out Strolling

Evening Flight for Valerie

Dot Wells of Devonport has knitted another lovely dress for her sister.

The doll is called Valerie and stands at 11cm

or (4.5 inches) tall.

The dress pattern is called Evening Flight 

by Anlaby.

Dot used up some of her left over beads at the bottom of this skirt

and then used Bead no.348 for the remaining part of the pattern.

 D.M.C. cotton no.902

This pattern uses 3 x hanks of beads

2 x balls of Perle 8 cotton.

Links

Beading Belles Hanks of Beads $7.00 ea

Beading Belles Cotton $5.00 a Ball

Evening Flight Pattern

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Sweet Abigail

This sweet doll is called Abigail,she is dressed by Dawn Larcombe of Deloraine.

Dawn is a left handed knitted,and this is only her third skirt,which she has completed beautifully.

Abigail is dressed in a pattern from 

Chessington Dolls called  Mitzi.

Dawn has used beads 444DY 

with D.M.C. cotton no.3687,which blends so well with these lovely cranberry coloured beads.

This pattern uses 3 x hanks of beads,with 1 x ball of cotton.

Links

Mitzi Pattern

Edwina Dressed in Lilac

Coral has again graced us with another lovely skirt to add to her collection.

 Edwina is one of the large doll's measuring 9cm
or (3 5/8 inches).

Coral has used the pattern Eleanor.
Beads no.412 

D.M.C. cotton no.340

Pattern uses 3 x hanks.
2 x Perle 8 cotton.

Links

Pattern

Freida Demure in Blue

This beautiful blue evening dress has been knitted by Jenny Weeks of Sassafrass (Tas).

The pattern is called Freida
 and is by Lynette Hendriks.

Jenny used beads no.478

 with a Presencia cotton no.2720

This dress has a lovely shawl neckline with a beautiful train at the back of the dress.

Jenny has added an organza rose to the neckline.As well as adding a trim of gold beads no.454-7 which run around the neckline,meeting at the back to form a bow,with ends which cascaded down the back of the dress and over the train.

I do think that this trim has added a special detail to this dress.

This pattern uses 3 x hanks of beads

 with 2 x balls of Perle 8 cotton.

Links

This pattern is unavailable at this point in time.
Lynette passed away.
23rd Oct 2016
This pattern will be kept here
in memoriam to
Lynette

Half Doll Niki "Out for a Stroll"

This charming doll called Niki was dressed by my dear friend Margaret Greeney of Launceston(Tas)

Margaret used the pattern called Miss Lucy by Anlaby.

Using beads 698-DY and D.M.C.cotton 333.

And lace of your choice.

This pattern uses 3 hanks and 2 Balls of Cotton.

3 x 57cm(22.5inches) of fine 25mm(1.5inches) lace.
Choose a fine lace as this works better than a thicker lace.
Umbrella kit (pate and stick)
available for
 $10.00 plus postage.
Please use my contact page.

Links

Miss Lucy Pattern
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Tip

Although the pattern stated that it took 5 hanks to knit.Marg required only 3 hanks to complete the pattern.

The waist of this skirt need's to be decreased to between 28 to 32 stitches,this will depend on the tension at which you knit.
Which means around 52 stitches need to be decreased in the band,to fit the dolls waist.
To get the right amount of stitches needed for your waist band,follow the instructions given in the tutorials,Video no.3."Learn how to make a fitted waist band.And use the gauge method around the waist,to see how many stitches are required to be decreased.
Because each person knits at a different tension,the number of stitches required will be different from person to person

Band.

So the dress isn't too long for the doll.
Finish knitting the pattern up to and including row 71
This band starts at row 72 in the pattern.

1st row..."Knit 1,slip 1 Bead" repeat " to " to end of row.

2nd row...Knit

3rd row...Purl

4th row..."Knit1 K2 tog."repeat " to"  to end of row

5th row...Purl

6th row.."Knit 1,K2 tog" repeat "to" to end of row.

7th row...Purl

8th row..."Knit 1,K2 tog" repeat "to" to end of row

9th row...Cast off.

I always do a running stitch just under the waist band,because over time the cotton will sag with the weight of the beads,and the waist will slip down the doll.Doing the small running stitch will prevent this from happening.
This method is also explained in the tutorials in Video no 8.