KNITTING
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A boy's jumper with
pirate and matching dachshund's coat
The dog is completely dressed up as a pirate; he even has a
wooden leg!
The pattern of the jumper can be bought in the webshop
I love knitting,
but I am really fond of designing knitting patterns.
In almost all my dollshouses you can find knitted miniatures.
Some of the patterns pictures below are in my pattern books.
I have made 2 books with dolls and cuddle toys and 4 books with
sweaters, dresses,hats and stockings.
You will find them in my webshop
MICRO KNITTING
Micro knitting is trying to knit as small as
possible.
After lots and lots of practice I succeeded to knitting a dress 1/4
", and a sweater 1/8".
I used a very thin thread and needles size 0,5 mm or 8/0.
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These two
pictures are meant to give you an impression of how small the knitted items are. I knit them looking through a magnifying glass. |
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This
looks like a book with a dress on the cover. What a surprise when the book opens. The dress from the cover is inside! These beaustiful book boxes are for sale. Look at................. |
And than,
of course, the next challenge. Could I knit a little smaller?
Again trying and trying, using thinner thread and
yes……….
After a lot of failures I managed to knit a dress that was1/8
".
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Look, the same finger but a much smaller dress! |
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These dresses and sweaters are so small that they do not fit around a toothpick. That is why I had to use my thin insect pins But still I was not satisfied. What is there missing? oooh yes, a hat. 2 dolls have hats made from a piece of tissue; two have crocheted hats. |
KNIT A FULL SIZE SWEATER IN 9 DAYS!
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At the end of September
2009 I was called by Zappsport, a sporting programm for children on tv. They asked me if the sweater with the moose on the front they had seen on my website was for sale. I told them that this was a miniature sweater for a doll of 6". They were dissapointed because they wanted to use this sweater in their tv programm. So I told them I could knit one like that full size. But..........they needed the sweater very soon, I only had 9 days to knit it. It was a hughe challenge but I made it. As you can see in the pictures underneath. |
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Picture 1: I am holding
the finished sweater. Picture 2 and 3: presentator Ron Boszhard is wearing the sweater on the set. I took these pictures from the tv. |
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These 3 sweaters are knitted using authentic peruvian motifs |
Inspired
by these sweaters?
In my webshop you will find
patternbooks so you can knit them yourself.
Or would you like to purchase? Click on "miniatures" in
my webshop
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3 Sweaters
with bat sleeves. In the 80's these were very popular. They were very comfortable, but the problem was that were uncomfortable underneath a coat in winter because of the sleeves. |
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The
red babies cardigan has embroidered motifs. The blue and orange toddler sweaters are similar to the sweaters our children had. |
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These
miniature sweaters have been worn by our children as well.
But then of course they were knitted in full size. |
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| Comfortable cotton summer sweaters |
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All knitting from the 70's
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The
first one is an original Irish Aran sweater The other two are warm winter sweaters. |
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Fashionable short ladies sweater. |
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Gents v-necked sweater with cables. |
DOLLS AND CUDDLE TOYS
Some of these cuddle toys are for sale in my
webshop - click miniatures
Or would you like to knit them yourself? You will find several
patternbooks in my webshop.
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Article
about microknitting in
Eins zu Zwölf no.
Knitknit issue 5