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Hello, my name is Dionne and I have been crafting for a very long time. As a very young child my mother tried to teach me to knit, it was a disaster. However, it must have sparked an interest in making things and, partly to prove that I was not totally useless and partly because I really wanted to make things, I taught myself to crochet. Over the years I have developed a love of cross stitch and all types of paper craft ..... I eventually even taught myself to knit.


I am married to a very understanding man, thank goodness, because I spend all my time either crafting, thinking about crafting or talking about crafting. I am hopeless at housework and dinner is often late!


Thank you for visiting my blog.


Dionne

Wednesday 5 July 2017

Basic Christmas Dress with Sweater

Day three of my personal Christmas in July Challenge.

For this challenge I have used Julie Williams 'Seasonal Dresses' and 'Seasonal Sweaters' for the basic pattern. Julie often gives her designs a name but these plain patterns are just called basic dress and sweater patterns. As you can imagine, I found displaying the clothes to show them at their best very hard but I have a little manikin ornament, which turned out to be just the right size to show off my miniature creations.

When I first started making these clothes for my niece's Christmas elves I just randomly picked some of Julie's patterns, I gave no thought to a Christmas theme or 'twinning' the dresses and jumpers - that idea came a few days later. However, once I came up with the idea I did go back to my earlier creations and try to make them look like a pair and, where there was no obvious winter theme I added beads and charms to give them a more 'seasonal' feel. I have tried to do this for the dress and jumper in today's post.


I have used Stylecraft Alpaka Tweed Double Knit for these two items,

I added the little bow and several Christmas charms to this dress to give a little Christmas cheer to this basic pink design,


and I added gold bugle beads and a wreath charm to the taupe jumper.


Each dress and jumper is fastened at the back by a small button.

I shall be back again tomorrow with another dress and sweater.  As I said before, I realise that this will soon become rather monotonous, after all there is only so much you can saw about a knitted dress and sweater and, as much as I love to read your comments, I will understand if you do not feel you have anything to say.


Dionne

4 comments:

  1. Love those tiny bugle beads, can only imagine how much patience they took and the wreath charm is just gorgeous x

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    1. Hi Lisette. Thank you, I did struggle a bit with the bugle beads, they were really hard to keep perfectly straight, knitting is so much harder to embroider on to than linen, I suppose this is because it is stretchy and the holes are much further apart - between you and me, I had planned for more bugle beads but gave up on them.

      I may have to re-stock Christmas charms before I start making my cards. Ha ha.

      Dionne xxx

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  2. Great little set love the bugle beads on the grey jumper and those tiny little charms just the perfect size
    Carol x

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    1. Thank you Carol, it's great to have a crafty stash to dip into.

      Dionne xx

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