Day nine and I am still having to borrow my husband's laptop to share my miniature Christmas outfits with you, I hope all the frustration is worth it.
Before you scroll down and look at the photos I need to apologise for the clarity of the images. I have used a very pale grey to represent the snow filled sky and it hard to make out the white snowflakes against it. I have tried to artificially increase the contrast but it has not helped much.
I have another pair of matching designs today. After making the dress I re-worked the pattern chart to get the design for the jumper. The dress is another of
Suzymarie's variations of the Julie Williams '
Seasonal Dresses' and I used her '
Seasonal Sweaters' patterns. As you will know by now, 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.
Suzymarie has called this design 'Snowfall'.
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.
Oh dear, not good news on the laptop but so glad you didn't let that stop you posting. These reflect a grey, Oct and snowy day perfectly. I love the accumulated build up of snow on the dress and the snowy white bands on the jumper, just like drifting snow x
ReplyDeleteThat was the look I was going for, I think the snowy design are really well done - there are one or two more to follow.
DeleteI have not been able to get my laptop to anyone yet so I do not know how long I am going to be without it but it is really frustrating. I am hoping to get to the computer shop tomorrow and drop it off, then it just depends on how busy they are.
Dionne xx
Fingers crossed! That should have said icy and not Oct by the way just in case you think I've gone nuts. However, made me think those elves need a little Halloween outfit! X
DeleteFunny you should say that, there are a couple of very colourful Halloween designs.
DeleteD xx
These are beautiful Dionne love the snowflake pattern against the grey and the little red skirt-cannot believe how many posts I have missed -been struggling to keep up with commenting lately so off to check them out will be working backwards lol
ReplyDeleteCarol x
Thank you so much Carol. The red skirt belongs to the manikin so you are going to see a lot of it - sometimes I left it showing in the photos and others I tucked it up inside the dress.
DeleteThank you for taking this journey with me, but I completely understand if you are too busy to comment on every post.
Dionne xx