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\nElizabeth Taylor
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Pattern: Basic doll, panties, pants, and sweater from “Toys to Knit” by Tracy Chapman
\nYarn: Dale Baby Ull for body, Mission Falls 1824 wool for pants, Lion Brand Cottonease for shirt.
\nNeedles: #2 (2.75mm) for doll and panties, #7 (4.5mm) for outerwear
\nGauge: 7 sts per inch for doll held single, didn’t check for outerwear.<\/p>\n
Taylor, right, is the completed companion to Elizabeth, left. In spite of how it looks, they are the same size. Taylor’s head might be just a smidge bigger. I blogged extensively about my troubles<\/a> with Elizabeth<\/a>. Again, the pants would have been too long with the full 50 rows called for, so I did 42. Also, after seeing how much trouble Elizabeth has with keeping her trousers up, I only cast on 23 instead of 25. The panty pattern, at least, works like a charm.<\/p>\n We chose Taylor’s name the same way we did Elizabeth’s, by going to a baby name site and perusing a list of the most popular girl names. She has trouble coming up with stuff from her own head, but having a list like that, she had no trouble selecting exactly the right name.<\/p>\n Seeing this picture makes me wonder if this was what was in her head when she bought that issue of Betty and Veronica yesterday. Hopefully they’ll be a good influence on each other, although with a combination name like “Elizabeth Taylor” I kind of doubt it. Well, Emily’s happy and that’s all that matters. Elizabeth Taylor Pattern: Basic doll, panties, pants, and sweater from “Toys to Knit” by Tracy Chapman Yarn: Dale Baby Ull for body, Mission Falls 1824 wool for pants, Lion Brand Cottonease for shirt. Needles: #2 (2.75mm) for doll and panties, #7 (4.5mm) for outerwear Gauge: 7 sts per inch for doll held single, didn’t check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Charts\/heartgraph.jpg\")
There was a different shirt for Taylor, made out of blue Lion Brand Cottonease. This pattern had its own set of issues. Why would you call for decreases along the sleeves of a sweater for a doll? They’re not real person arms. They’re little sausages. They don’t taper. Instead of casting on 22 and decreasing to 14, I cast on 20 and did one decrease to 18 after eight stitches on the theory that it might make it a little easier to stuff the arms into the armholes. It worked fine. Just before I started the sweater, Emily asked for a picture on it, a heart. Turtlegirl76<\/a> was gracious enough to share some red Cottonease for that. I had to buy a skein of Baby Ull for the doll itself, but the yarn for the pants and main body of the shirt came out of my stash.<\/p>\n
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