Blanket or Knotted Dolls

[tankgirl73]

Hi! I'm hoping to find directions for making a blanket doll or a knotted doll... it doesn't matter if it's a waldorf-style head or not.

I found an archived discussion with links but all the links were out of date, the sites were no longer active.

Any help?

[LaughingHyena]

I used this pattern
http://www.tomaatnet.nl/~vrijeopvoed...terflydoll.htm

[tankgirl73]

Yeah I've seen that one, but 1) it's not exactly what I'm looking for and 2) I can't make heads or tails of it! I think it's a translation and many parts of it don't make sense to me...

"Now measure from neck to neck, with this doll it should be 15 cms"... " Mind the length way !"... Huh?

It also seems a bit more complicated than what I need right now. I'm guessing that for someone who has made similar dolls before, it all makes sense. But I haven't... yet!

[LaughingHyena]

These instructions look a bit clearer
http://s93855831.onlinehome.us/knott...tructions.html

I took the neck to neck to mean measure round the head, starting at the neck, going over the face and down the back to the neck.

I did it mostly by eye though, it helped to sew the body first so I could see what size head I wanted.

[ilikethedesert]

The book A CHildren's Year has at least one pattern for simple knotted dolls if you are in the market for a new crafts book. THere are about a million other simple- and not so simple_ crafts in there too.

[tankgirl73]

Have you got an author or publisher for that book? I can't find it online...


EDIT: I found one called THE Children's Year -- is this it?
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Year.../dp/1869890000

[ilikethedesert]

Yup, that's it! Sorry bout that!