Miniature clothes

"Mary Fisher" wrote in news:473ae1f2$0$766$ snipped-for-privacy@master.news.zetnet.net:

i'd try to avoid glue. it makes horrid stiff seams, especially at the tiny sizes. use a wool felt (or other non ravelly cloth) for clothes & hand stitch them on for best results. it's possible to use cottons, but hemming on that scale is blinding & i don't recommend it. i dressed my 1:12 scale dollhouse people with sewn felt. i used glued felt to make tack for my Breyer horses, because as a 9 year old i didn't have access to leather or the ability to sew it. glued felt is sufficiently 'hard' to make lovely saddles. lee

Mary,

Are you familiar with a book, booklet really, called The Knitted Farmyard, by Hannelore Wernhard, from Search Press Ltd in Kent? I think the clothed figures in it are larger than 3" (can't find specific measurements), but it does say that sizes will depend partly on the kinds of yarn, tension, etc. Recommended needle sizes are 13, 12, and

11...do you think using size 20 needles would possibly reduce the garments enough that the instructions would be helpful?

Here are a couple of scans from the book:

in Alabama

I think I have that, somewhere ...

Well, thanks, but I can manage to scale knitted patterns down. Spouse complains because I'm using commercial (very old) size 18 needles instead of letting him make some size 20 (swg) needles - not quit the same sizes as American ones. He made some for a daughter so I know he can - but there are more pressing tasks for him.

Aren't there always more pressing tasks for husbands :-)

Today I made an aran jumper for a dolls' house youth and am now making him some trousers. The twin babies shouldn't be a problem either.

I was really asking about sewn clothing though.

Mary

Mary,

Send a ping out for Teri or "The Wanderer". They both make dolls clothes

- so may be able to help you.

HTH

Sarah