Little Red Tulips

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

Today's matching outfits are based on a design I saw on Pinterest and I have spent the past hour trying to find it again without any luck.  However, I have all of the details on my laptop, which of course I cannot access these at the moment, but it went into the shop yesterday, and once it is fixed I will edit this post.  (My laptop is back from the computer shop and I can now credit the designer of this pattern, it is Pam Clyde)

I cannot remember the designers name but I do remember that she called this pattern 'Little Red Tulips' and her chart is available from Ravelry.

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.

As with most of these designs, once I had made the dress, I re-worked the chart to get the pattern for the jumper.  The dress based Julie Williams 'Seasonal Dresses' and  I used her 'Seasonal Sweaters' patterns 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.

Nordic Snowflake # 2

Are you ready for the weekend?  Friday already, I really do not know where this week has gone.

I have more of the matching dresses and jumpers I recently made to fit my niece's Christmas elves.  The dress is another of Suzymarie's variations of the Julie Williams 'Seasonal Dresses' pattern 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 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.  Suzymarie's design was for the dress but I reworked the chart to come up with one for the sweater.

Suzymarie has called this design 'Nordic'.  However, in my quest to make as many of these outfits with a Christmas/winter look I have come up with several different Nordic snowflake designs, so to avoid confusion I have called this one Nordic Snowflake # 2. 

On this occasion I have not repeated the snowflake design on the back of the sweater.  If you look carefully you may just make out the tiny button at the neck fastening.

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.

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.

Snowfall

 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.

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.

Nordic Snowflake # 1

Day 7 of my challenge to share with you the clothes I have made for my niece's Christmas elves.

This is another pair of winter designs, this time the jumper pattern came first.  I purchased a set of 'Elf on the Shelf' knitting patterns from Ravelry - 'Sweaters for Santa's Elf Helper' by Helen Cox.

If you have been looking at my previous posts you will have noticed that this sweater is a slightly smaller design with a much tighter neckline and narrower sleeves.

I used the Nordic snowflake from the sweater pattern to create the dress design, for the pattern I used the basic dress pattern from the Julie Williams 'Seasonal Dresses'  patterns. 

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.

First Flurries

My plans to post a Christmas elf outfit everyday during July have rapidly gone awry.  The observant ones amongst you would have spotted that I missed yesterday.  That was because my laptop packed up on me Friday evening.  I spent ages yesterday trying to get it going again but nothing doing.  I have borrowed my husbands old machine today to write this post but it is soooooo slow and terrible frustrating, I do not know how he puts up with it.  Still, I should not grumble, at least it works!

I have another 'matched pair' of designs today.  After making the dress I re-worked the pattern to get the pattern for the jumper.  The dress is another of Suzymarie's variations of the Julie Williams 'Seasonal Dresses' and '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.

Suzymarie has called this design 'First Flurries'.  As you can see, I have picked out the points of the snowflakes on the jumper with little silver seed beads.

I hope I can continue to post using my husband's steam powered laptop, but bear with me if something else goes wrong.


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.