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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

Thursday 13 July 2017

Watermelon

Day ten already with my personal challenge to make 25 dresses and jumpers to fit my niece's Christmas elves.

I have another pair of matched designs today.  I know it is not a Christmas, or even a winter design but I could not resist.  The dress is another of Suzymarie's variations of the Julie Williams 'Seasonal Dresses' pattern and and I used her 'Seasonal Sweaters' pattern.   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 and alpaka double knit.


Suzymarie has called this design 'Watermelon'.  The little black stitches are meant to represent the watermelon pips, they have a nasty habit of disappearing into the main colour and with hindsight I wonder whether I should have tried embroidering them on with 'Swiss Darning'. I have only ever tried doing this once before and I was not very good at it. 


As before, after making the dress I re-worked the dress pattern to get the stitch chart for the jumper.



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 Beez13 July 2017 at 19:54

    Brilliant.I absolutely love this and I know you're probably tired of hearing me say it but I would absolutely wear that jumper. There's some amazing detail, especially that lighter pink near the "skin" Can't wait for the next x

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    1. Dee's Craft Room14 July 2017 at 02:00

      I am amazed you spotted the lighter pink. It is such a great design, all the layers and the subtle colour changes. It is also sooo girlie, my niece will love that about this one.

      Dionne xx

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  2. CdeBaca Crafts Gallery16 July 2017 at 09:02

    Such an adorable design. Great colors too!

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    1. Dee's Craft Room16 July 2017 at 13:12

      Thank you, I know it has nothing to do with Christmas but I found this one irresistible.

      I hope you are having a good weekend.

      Dionne xx

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