Hi! I am new to this group and boy do I need help! I am trying to do some tiny knitting for the first time for a doll dress. The pattern calls for Peluche fur yarn as well as a spool of Lurex yarn. I am having a terrible time finding this stuff. I can't even seem to find a table that will tell me its weight (grams/yardage, etc) so I could buy an equivalent yarn. Can anyone help me with some websites? Thank you so much! :)
Info for extremely thin yarns please
Feb 27, 2007
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The gauge specified in the pattern will give you some idea of the weight of yarn you're looking for.
When i knit /crochet for dolls i use cotton and sometimes Moline embroidery floss ,,, mirjam
See what the gauge is to be, and go from there, using whatever will give you that gauge. There are no "knitting police", so do whatever works for you! When I had small nieces with Barbie dolls, they often asked for clothes for them, and I knit and crochet quite a few using fingering weight yarn. The yarn had plenty of "give" so the measurements didn't need to be precise. For skirts I made a rectangle large enough to go around Barbie's backside and put tiny button holes around the edge where the waist would be. Then I made a chain of single crochet, thread it through the button holes, and Barbie had an attached "belt" that could be tied. For shorts I added a wee bit of width, made them a bit beyond crotch length, and just sewed the front to the back for a few stitches for the crotch. I never knit in the round, so there was always a (fashionable) seam up the back, and for skirts I could leave a kick pleat. For floor-length skirts I knit from waist to hem, increasing for more full skirts, and added left-over metalic threads. It was always better to work with the Barbie at hand, but rather than borrow a Barbie from a child, I went to the Salvation Army store and bought an old one and used that as my model. You can decorate with embroidery floss, of course. Have fun!
Here's a site for the Peluche -
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There is gauge, weight and length info on the color card. For Rowan Lurex yarn, see
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Hope this helps you.
A month or so ago I purchased a copy of Knit1 magazine (the "Love" issue). It had a wonderful illustrated chart of yarn weights and sizes (with substitutions, and pictures of even 'novelty' yarns. I haven't found the chart on the vogue site, but I am still looking.
In the meantime, I've googled and found a few charts
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next 'substitution' chart lists Peluche as a Phildar yarn, of worsted weight.
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has an English language website, but the prices are in Euros and the needle sizes are French - not US or UK. They have a conversion chart, however,
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was hard to search for, but I did manage to find a picture of Peluche - no indication that it was the Peluche fur you wanted.This website lists a Lurex Shimmer yarn that is Fingering Weight
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Brand Yarns has a few substitution charts - but they refer only to their own products. Once you know the weights you need, you might want to look for yarns here
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just got a call from the school nurse - so I have to leave and pick up my daughter.
Hope this helped a little.
I totally missed the Peluche on Google! Tell me, what search engine did you use?
I found those links using Google.
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