...well...I'm pretty much obsessed with this little dollie...I've got a couple of little secret things that I need to finish up soon too...so I'm going to have to put her aside to finish them in a timely manner...haha...
...but her hair is finished...and I had to add another (less shiny) yellow/cream baby yarn...as I actually ran out of the first skein...I was surprised by how much yarn it took to create her hair...
...but it's a nice thick head of blond hair...
...I'm just going to pull it back to keep it out of the way while I continue knitting...
...actually I'm going to braid it...so it is stylable...haha...
...the pattern doesn't say to do the hair now...but since I'm knotting each strand I thought it would be much easier (only possible actually) while I have access to the inside of her head...
...and for sort of the same reasons I'm going to to ahead and embroider her face...the pattern doesn't say to do it now...so I'm guessing you can do it all at the end if you want to...
...while you're knitting the face you make little purl stitch 'markers' for where the eyes/nose/mouth will be...so that's helpful...I just embroidered a little smile...using the leftover yarn from my Easter sweater as it's a nice fuschia colour...
...and another interesting thing was that before I started the face embroidery...my camera 'automatically' changed it's setting to "Infant"...which I thought was sweet and funny...once she had eyes though it recognized her as "Portrait"...haha...
...and then started on the eyes...there's a really good instructions page for the face embroidery
here...
...a little bit of blue...
...and some white...and her face was finished...
...and then I stuffed her head and continued knitting her neck...the shaping is pretty amazing...and she gives the sweetest instructions to..."Imagine a human shape and stuff it with fibers."
...what's in your workbasket this week?...
~Have a lovely day!
I am amazed!
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