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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!


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Dionne

Tuesday 11 July 2017

Cherry Pie

I back with another 'matched pair' of designs for a dress and jumper to fit my niece's Christmas elves, I have lost count of which day this is, I think it is 8.

As with most of these elf clothes, I found a dress pattern on-line and then re-worked it to  get the pattern for the jumper.  The dress is another of Suzymarie's variations of the Julie Williams 'Seasonal Dresses' and I used the 'Seasonal Sweaters' patterns. The original pattern was designed to fit the 'Little Cotton Rabbits' series of soft toys.


The original patterns were written for 4 ply but as the elves I have been knitting for are a little larger than the Little Cotton Rabbits I have made mine in baby soft double knit and alpaka double knit.


Suzymarie has called this design 'Cherry Pie'.  I think this a a great design for a cherry pie with the cherries and the lattice pie crust.


I think the conversion of this dress chart into a jumper pattern worked well.



Dionne

PS Whilst I really love to read your comments, I will understand if you do not feel you have anything to say about yet another dress and jumper combo, perhaps you could just say hi to let me know that you stopped by.
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6 comments:

  1. Mrs Beez11 July 2017 at 20:09

    Oh my goodness how cute are these?!!! I love designs with cherries so these tick all the boxes. Another great colour combo and another jumper for my wish list! X

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    1. Dee's Craft Room12 July 2017 at 00:41

      Thank you. Not exactly Christmas, or even winter, but I could not resist this design. I really love this design and the more I looked at it the more cherry pie images I could pick out of the design - I particularly liked the lattice pie crust.

      Dionne xxx

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  2. crafty-stamper12 July 2017 at 21:36

    Oh these are so beautiful love the Christmas colours and you are clever to rework the pattern to fit the dresses-love the cherries
    Carol x

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    1. Dee's Craft Room14 July 2017 at 01:52

      Thank you, I know this one has nothing to do with Christmas but it is such a great design I had to make it.

      Dionne xx

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  3. CdeBaca Crafts Gallery16 July 2017 at 09:02

    Oh my goodness. This one is super cute.
    Great design!!

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    1. Dee's Craft Room16 July 2017 at 15:37

      Isn't it just, this is one of my favourites, the design just fascinates me.

      Dionne xxx

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