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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

Sunday 23 July 2017

Dec' the Halls

Day twenty of my personal 'Christmas in July' challenge to share with you the 25 miniature outfits I have been knitting for my niece's Christmas elves.

Today's matching pair come from one of  the patterns in the Julie Williams 'Seasonal Dresses' pattern book. This design is called 'Little Waves', but I think it looks a lot like the paper chains we had when I was a girl.


I added some little coloured faux pearls to the design, these came from ebay.


I re-worked the dress chart and, using 'Seasonal Sweaters' patterns for the knitting pattern, I came up with the design for the jumper.


As regular visitors will know, the original patterns were designed to fit the 'Little Cotton Rabbits' series of soft toy but these are a little smaller than the Christmas elves I am making these clothes for, so I made these clothes in double knit instead of 4 ply.  The grey is alpaka double knit and the white is baby soft.



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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4 comments:

  1. Mrs Beez25 July 2017 at 17:23

    Gorgeous pattern and colours and the little pearls have the appearance of Christmas lights. Fabulous! X

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    1. Dee's Craft Room25 July 2017 at 22:17

      Ha ha, that was the plan I am so pleased the hear that it worked.

      Dionne xx

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  2. CdeBaca Crafts Gallery28 July 2017 at 08:12

    Oh wow, I love the little beads you have added! Adorable!

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    1. Dee's Craft Room28 July 2017 at 13:06

      Thank you, the beads add a little splash of colour.

      Dionne x

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Dionne

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