miniature knitting

Lovely.

It reminds me of my childhood when I had two girl dolls, one white, one black, about 7" high. I had a huge range of clothes for them because my mother's magazine printed patterns every week, beginning in the 1940s. The clothes were knitted, crocheted and sewn.

There was a very special issue in June 1953 when a full set of coronation regalia was published. My mother and I made everything from scraps, I still had the clothes when our first daughter was old enough to appreciate them but when I opened the box the moth had ravaged everything - even the patterns :-(

Mary

Higs, Katherine

Oh, no! You must have been rotted!

Higs, Katherine

Those are lovely, Wendy. Reminds me of my Grandma's knitted outfits she would make us for our Barbie dolls when we were little, and she never followed a written pattern. Hers weren't as detailed as those that you posted, but even so, I can't imagine knitting something that tiny!

Thanks for sharing!

lisa ,

My pleasure, Lisa! What a great memory of handmade Barbie clothes. Did you save them? ps--That website keeps changing too!

Wendy

Unfortunately, the Barbie clothes were 100% wool and got moth-eaten up in Mama's attic back in the 1970s. We do still have a couple of lovely little things that Grandma made, though, a wool knitted baby bottle warmer she made for me when I was born (1963), and an lovely lace pinafore she made for my older sister out of perwinkle-colored crochet cotton back in the 1950s. The bottle warmer is so cute--a knitted poodle that the bottle is stashed in. Grandma was so talented with needle work. She was born in rural Michigan in the 1880s, so she learned to make some amazing things, mostly out of necessity.

:-) I'll check out the website again!

lisa

I used to knit and crochet and the like for 1/12scale, when I was into dolls house stuff. I still have a book called Dolls' House Needlecrafts by Venus A. Dodge the book can be bought at amazon and it is full of little sweaters shawls rugs throws even a mini hot waterbottle cover as well as teacosy etc Over 250 projects in 1/12 scale

well worth looking for.

higz Cher

I still have a book called Dolls' House Needlecrafts by Venus A. Dodge the book can be bought at amazon and it is full of little sweaters shawls rugs throws even a mini hot waterbottle cover!

I've never seen a dolls' house hwb :-)

It sounds delightful!

Mary

house stuff.

throws even a mini hot waterbottle cover as well as teacosy etc Over 250 projects in 1/12 scale

Oh wow! Thanks for the tip! I'll go look at it. Wendy :D

Padishar Creel

While looking for something else I came across this:

Padishar Creel wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com:

i use a magnifying lens, sometimes *with* my close-up glasses, & i work in small blocks of time with frequent 'eye rest' breaks. i have a lot of trouble with my vision. i have allergies & a chronic sinus infection that's going on 30 years now, which literally changes the shape of my eyes & makes corrective lenses hit or miss. on "good" days, when my glasses actually work, i try to get a lot of knitting or beading done. on days when everything is a blur with or without glasses, i do housework ;) lee

Can't you think of an excuse not to do that?

Mary

"Mary Fisher" wrote in news:4683c2be$0$22489$ snipped-for-privacy@master.news.zetnet.net:

usually :) i do have to catch the dust kitties before they become full fledged live cats though (we have one Great Pyranees/Border Collie cross & 6 indoor cats. the fur issue during shedding season is not insubstantial). otherwise, i'm just not into that "spotless" house thing. lee

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You're not doing it right you know, the National Trust believes that dusting damages fine furniture, leave the dust to protect it. I'd leave the animals outside while moulting but there again I wouldn't have them to start with :-)

Mary

I hear that! When we open the foyer windows and the window in the front screen door too, even the slightest breeze can send fur balls rolling across the floor... even if I swept it earlier the same day. It's really hard keeping up with them (dogs for us, not cats) during shedding season, but we wouldn't part with them for the world... they are our fur babies.

They've been shedding a LOT this year for some reason. If I don't brush them for a couple of days (or even sometimes when I do) you can see "tufts" of fur pushing their way out of their coats later in the day. So whenever Casper comes walking by, I play "pull the tufters" from him. He thinks it's a great game, wagging happily until he decides he's had enough and then he takes off leaving me with a lovely mound of white fur "tufts" to throw away.

Buffy hasn't been well today. She has a cancerous stomach tumor, and has been just lying around most of the day. Unfortunately she is messing in the house (she stays in the laundryroom) a bit today too, so we had to have her outside quite a bit to try to make sure she went in the right place... didn't work though, it's happened about three times now *while* she is laying down sleeping. We don't think she will live too much longer (she isn't in any pain at the moment though, so that's a good thing) and the vet says when she finally gives up eating completely the end will be very near for her like it was for her own dog. The vet also said "All rules are out the window now, just let her eat whatever she wants, whenever she wants to eat it."

Anyway, while Buffy was lying on the grass, I sat beside her massaging her (she also has arthritis) and "tufting" her gently. After her massage though she struggled to her feet (before that she wasn't even trying, and was just lying there perfectly still), with a little help from Matthew to get her hind legs under her properly, and made her way back into the house for a while. It's too cool and damp to even consider leaving her outside for too long, so we just have to clean up after her when she has an accident.