Lejays17 Doll-a-Week 2019

[Elfy]

Lottie has claimed that skein for her own.

[werepuppy]

Well, she seems sure that one will be used for her!

[dargosmydaddy]

Ooh, pretty yarn! Hope Lottie makes good use of it

[neon_jellyfish]

She looks so happy with that skein!

[Alliecat]

*has no idea what a stitch marker is (other than what it obviously sounds like)* but it's cute -- makes a good doll charm.
Looking forward to seeing what you make with the yarn.

[davidd]

The metal bee suits her Victorian-steampunk style! And the yarn coordinates nicely with one of the colors in her dress.

[Lejays17]

*has no idea what a stitch marker is (other than what it obviously sounds like)*.

And it's pretty much what it says on the tin - it's a "thing" that is used to mark the start of a part of knitting. I use mine to mark the start of a round (if I'm knitting something like a hat or a sock that doesn't need to be sewn together at the end), and also to mark repeats of a pattern within a round.
They can be made of anything, but I like mine to be a bit like jewellery, it makes my knitting look pretty


You can see the markers ringing the beginning of this top I've done - this has a lacey pattern around the bottom, so I have a marker at each point the pattern repeats, so I can see easily if I've mucked it up.

[Alliecat]

Ah. Thanks for the ex.planation. It's like a big fuzzy charm bracelet!

[Lejays17]

Becky has been very industrious today, she's knitted a jumper to wear to the Sheep & Wool Show next week.

I had a mini-skein of yarn that had short repeats of colours, which would look mottled in a people-sized jumper, but has turned into even stripes for a doll-sized one 

[dargosmydaddy]

Oh, how adorable! The blue goes nicely with her eyes.

[Alliecat]

That's pretty cool, that you didn't have to plan the stripes? It looks great, and she looks very happy with it. Nice colour combination between doll & sweater.

[neon_jellyfish]

It looks really good, until you realize that Becky didn't actually knit that - a full-sized human did! Then it starts looking downright AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! Are those toothpicks?

[davidd]

Wow! 1:6 scale knitting! Somebody has impressive dexterity and enviable eyesight!

[Lejays17]

Thanks all!

Alliecat, it was a nice coincidence that it striped nearly perfectly when I began knitting it, I didn’t plan it that way at all.

Neon, they aren’t quite toothpicks, but not far wrong. They are 10cm (4inch) long double-pointed needles, I can’t really knit well with them - too short to handle comfortably - so I use them to hold stitches to knit with later. And they’re nearly the right size to use for Pullip props

Davidd, my eyesight is crap (without glasses, everything more than a half arm length away is blurry), but I can “read” my knitting by touch generally. Plus I have a good reading lamp for light at home.
On a small scale like this it can get fiddly to manipulate the 4 needles, but like anything it’s just practice.

[Elfy]

Can’t wait to see Becky show it off!